Ironically it is shocking to know that personality and stress goes hand in hand. The Personality characteristics that make up both type A and type B Personalities are described as two contrasting personality types. Type A personalities are individuals that are aggressive, controlling, very competitive and are preoccupied with status, they are workaholics, hostile, and has no patience. Type B personalities are relaxed, not as emotional, and have mild attitudes. According to (Manning et. al, 2011), “type A and type B behaviors are determined largely by culture”. However, I can honestly relate, it is funny how our personality affects everything around our lives. Manning, G., Curtis, K., McMillen, S., & Attenweiler, B. (2011). Stress living & working in a changing world. Nashville, TN: Savant Learning System, Inc. …show more content…
Now, I am the sweetest person you will ever want to meet, but finding out that I have a type A personality was not surprising, to say the least. No one knows you better than you. The one thing about me and anger is that I tend to let things get to me and my behavior when I am mad and it has me out of control. I become a little hostile and I feel that in a sense I am my own worst enemy. I never realized how much stress I was under until I became a lead in the loan operations department at
Last night on the Tonight Show, a very special middle schooler appeared to talk about what makes them tick. His name was Saatvik Sunkavalli. Everything about his introduction was customized to fit his personality. The set was mostly ride, showing how he was passionate, intense, and adventurous. The music that introduced him was happy by Pharrell Williams.
Agnew et.al (2002) used data from the National Survey of Children to examine on which certain major personality traits condition to affect strain. It was consisted of two wave data. First wave, they conducted surveys and interviewed among 2,300 children between the ages 7 and 11 in 1976. The second wave was conducted after five years among 1,423 children ages 122 to 16. Agnew, Brezina, Wright and Cullen (2002) revealed that the’’ high in
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an important look at the methods humans use in our interaction with our shared environments and how we relate differently to shared experiences (Cohen, D., Cohen M., Cross, H., 1981). Differences in how individuals relate to and understand our surroundings are displayed and sorted using scales for several fields. Extroversion and introversion are determined and assigned to this indicator using either E or I. A clear definition between sensing and intuition is also defined by the assignment of S or N. Also, thinking and feeling are compared and determined adding the letters of either T or F to the result. The last letter in ones conformed profile will include either J or P for judging compared to perception.
My anger builds up inside me I try to keep it locked up, and not let Mr. Anger out but i just can't control it. I need help with it cause I can't control it anymore it's hard to control him. Why won’t anybody help me? It's tearing me up from the inside out, it's eating me alive.
Also with small things like if I get very angry with my dad because he 's frustrating me or my cousin who keeps calling me. And if anyone just getting on my nerves, I will get pretty mad, well usually I don 't really get angry, but when I do I get very very mad. I would say this is a dragon that I 've been dealing with my entire life and I will keep on dealing with it because I need to work on my anger, it when I do get angry but everyone has anger and I think everyone deals with in their own way. Another dragon that I have fought with what is my pain when I was a child.
For instance, in a study involving Chinese students, the personality types T and TJ were found to be common compared to U.S. students (Williams et al.,
Once completing multiple personality tests; thus I was finally able to confirm ESTJ as my personality type. Since I was getting unsuited suggestions of career choices, I retook the test until ESTJ was able to fit more of my interests and viewpoints. The 16 Personalities Test results gave me a more detailed description of who I am and insight on my personality traits. It has helped me figure out aspects that can help me get a better understanding of myself.
The Popularity of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator According to the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), I am an INFJ (Introversion, Intuiting, Feeling, and Judging). I know that because like many Americans I have taken this personality test in the belief that it is a reliable way to know what kind of person I tend to be. A few weeks ago, there was an article on Facebook titled, “Why Does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Seem So Eerily Accurate?” The article starts as a personal story on how the writer was persuaded by her friend to take the personality test.
State-Trait Depression Inventory (STDI) was used to measure depression (Spielberger, 2003). A 20-item questionnaire was administered that corresponds to the depression subscale of State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI). It employed a four-point Likert scale with 1 meaning “almost always” and 4 meaning “almost never”. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the scale in the present study is 0.93.
In general, I have learned not only that there are many more personality types than I originally thought, but also that I need to be more forgiving of other types. According to Kroeger, Thuesen, & Rutledge, “the most significant source of interpersonal tension at work” is derived from whether you are a judger or a perceiver. (Kroeger, Thuesen, & Rutledge, 2002, p. 41) As a judger, I like to make specific plans and follow through on them to completion.
When I completed the Stress Barometer- Type A, Type B Behavior Test by marking my response in the A column or in the B column , I realized that I am a combination of type A and type B personality. Before I completed this exercise I considered myself to represent type A behavior trait. However, this activity has helped me to recognize what personality, behavior traits I possess.
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about how stress develops and its effects on the workplace. Tentative Thesis: Though the definition of stress is already well-known among our society, we remain ignorant towards how stress develops everywhere and influences the workplace. Introduction I. Attention
Researchers have studied cultural diversity in context of personality psychology (Van Der Zee, Atsma & Brodbeck, 2004). A number of psychologists have investigated human personality domains that impact one’s interaction in diverse settings and multicultural com-munities (Arasaratnam & Doerfel, 2005; Herfst, Van Oudenhoven, & Timmerman, 2008; Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2004). One such domain is multicultural personality characterized by individuals who are emotionally stable and secure about their cultural identity. They wel-come diversity and are proactive to learn from and interact with culturally different people (Ponterotto, 2006).
Personalities are truly amazing. They tell a story to who we are as individuals. There is a long list of personalities and characteristic that make up an individual. Stress is one of those things that can influence one's life . But how we handle stress can vary.
The Big Five Personality Traits are divided into five broad characteristics, which is basically used to describe the variations of human personality. The various characteristics are: • Openness • Agreeableness • Conscientiousness • Neuroticism • Extraversion This model has gained particular popularity as it shows the different traits in a person which comes up with the situational change around the person. Shritika is an entrepreneur by profession and thus meets a lot of client in her workplace. Thus, she shows the trait of Conscientiousness in her behavior of enjoying her work and meeting up new clients is a part of her job role.