Personality Typing

A study was conducted in the 1950’s by two cardiologists named Ray Rosenman and Meyer Friedman who tried to link personality to coronary disease, there is controversy about these findings as it was funded by the tobacco industry and because of the results of further studies. They found that people with a Type A personality type were more likely to develop coronary disease. In spite of this controversy their findings still greatly affect the thinking of psychologists who study the effects of mental health on physical health. They came up with the theory of Type A and Type B personality.

A person’s personality is his or her essence. It is what guides decisions, emotions, and even thoughts. Some may wonder if it is possible to explore every nuance of such a complex part of a being, but there are ways to determine what type of personality a person has, and then branch off into a more detailed examination of that person specifically. Combined with other factors, such as personality disorders and the environment that someone has grown up in, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, test (Enrichment 1) and analysis can determine an accurate portrayal of a personality. Created in 1943 by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, it is a system made up of four basic functions and sub functions that combine to make a personality type. The mother and daughter team constructed it off of Jung’s theories (History 2). Based on this system, one of the most common personality types in the US population is called an ESTJ, and one of the least common personality types is called an INFJ. There are many differences and similarities between these two types. An ESTJ personality, overall, is practical, fact-based, and outgoing, whereas an INFJ personality is more private and makes decisions based on feelings; however, both are organized people who make good leaders and are capable of great success in roles that involve helping others.

The type A personality is not the only personality type with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Type D, also known as the distressed personality, has an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Individuals who identify as type D personalities typically struggle in social situations and often experience negative emotions. Both social inhibition and negative affectivity are leading causes to type D personalities having higher than normal risk of cardiovascular disease. Type D individuals avoid social situations, typically have a negative self-view, and can often feel depressed, anxious, or angry. When faced with these perceived high stress and uncomfortable circumstances, the individuals release high levels of cortisol. A

According to the interview for the internship above, it shows that the individual personality has definitely an impact on the managers’ decisions whether or not to hire someone to be an intern or to take a new position in their companies. This applicant Susanna’s personality profile indicates that she fails in the projection errors because she does not trust people. This distrust sometimes blocks her not to accept others’ ideas or opinions. In addition, based on Susanna’s orderliness and dutifulness, they show that she has a high level of organizational commitment because she has a strong sense of an obligation and thinks that all tasks must be done perfectly and professionally as well. However, they identify her as a Type A personality because

The fourth letter represents how I prefer to organize your life. The way in which I prefer to organize my life is Judging. When I saw the word judging I was for sure this was inaccurate because I associated that with judging people. I never judge people and this word really made me feel insulted and uncomfortable. I was sure this was going to be inaccurate. In Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type, Isabel Briggs Myers and Peter B. Myers wrote:

personaility type The Briggs Myers questionaire put a name to my personality type. Prior to taking this quiz I would descibe myself as “out going” or “not shy”. I didnt know that there was a specific word that described my strong personality. Learning that the type of personality I held was called and extravert helped me to do alot of self discovery. Briggs Myers classified my individual answers as being Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. According to Briggs Myers seventh edition, ESTJ personalities set clear standards, follows theses standards, and expects others to follow as well. ESTJ also has no problem working with others as long as people are working and have every intention of meeting any deadlines as needed or finishing early. I am also classified as problem solving and can be tough when times call for

Q1.) A brief description of your results (for both assessments.) First of all, I have never taken one of these personality tests before and I must stress that it is quite an eye opener. Immediately I got my results I shared it with my boss, who was quite intrigued and wanted to take it herself. So, thank you.

In Psychology 101 I have learned new things that Psychology in high school didn’t teach me. I was very excited to learn about the different types of personalities. A Type-A personality is someone who is competitive, very organized, impatient, ambitious, great at time management and aggressive. Knowing what these characteristics about a person will help me to better connect with them and know them better. A Type-B personality is a person who less stressed, expresses their emotions, relaxed, has a laid-back attitude, and flexible with things throughout their day. I can relate more to a Type-B personality and that will help me more in my personal life to make friends and help others.

The automatic nervous system is equipped with multiple automatic functions necessary for the body’s activities to function properly, such as breathing or maintaining a steady heart rate (Kidshealth.org, 2011). Another function that helps with responding to demands to threats is stress, which helps motivate an individual to perform under pressure, or even protect themselves in a dangerous situation (Segal et al., 2016). Although its main objective is to protect and motivate, stress in extreme amounts can begin to cause physiological and emotional problems, ranging from heart and coronary problems to an irritable behaviour (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2016). In order to determine the possible causes of coronary disease, cardiologists Friedman (1959)

As I evaluate myself as an imperfect human being, I have discovered that having an A Type personality is one of my biggest weaknesses. To start, I constantly view situations as a competition.

What drives people choose a risky profession, and how this choice affects their personal lives? The risk - that is the opinion of the people, the proportion of madmen, a vital necessity or usual hobby? Search the risk is caused by the desire to diversify the life, or there are other

After answering multiple questions for different situations I was able to obtain information about my personality. ENFJ is a very unique and has various skill sets that will allow me as individual to work in multiple roles. Occupations with good interpersonal skills that allow productive collaboration through any working process. Although this personality can be challenging it still has many benefits to help build careers successfully. There are many high rank positions that this particular personality type would be effective in. Some examples are sales, social services, community care, legal and the list goes on. In all of these roles there are a broad range of occupations that would fit perfectly based on the personality type. However, the ultimate focus is to reach their main dreams. Although they may see their selves as helpers or enablers, this creates the challenge.

The original International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) focused on Goldberg’s 100-adjective markers of the psycholexical FFM structure (Goldberg, 1990/1992). The current IPIP-50 is a 50-item prototype public domain (the NEO-PI-R is a commercial questionnaire) personality questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006; Goldberg, 2011). Since the questionnaire is free of charge over 600 different studies have employed it (Goldberg, 2016). Until 2005 the IPIP big-five factor markers lacked validating evidence, but research conducted in 2005 found that the IPIP-50 had a high internal consistency and related strongly to both Costa and McCrae’s NEO-FFI and Eysenck’s EPQ-R Short Form (Gow et al., 2005). In addition, Gow et al. (2005) found that although Intellect and Openness related less strong, it was still 0.59. A study carried out in New Zealand found that there was hardly any evidence to suggest hidden biases at the item or scale level of the IPIP-50 (Guenole & Chernyshenko, 2005). Before looking at the research examining the relation between the FFM and EI, this literature review first presents some of the current findings in EI.

Outgoing and spontaneous, or level headed and reserved: these are ways in which people identify the others surrounding them every day. These personality indicators may seem easy to distinguish; however, at times, finding one’s own personality type can be difficult. In the early 1900s, a Swedish psychologist named

o IMPORTANT TO THEORY AND PRACTICE • Matta, Scott, Koopman, and Conlon (2015), argue that employee work engagement was higher when leaders and subordinates agree about the quality of their relationship. Leaders who acknowledge what are expected from them regarding their way of leading may help them to tailor a more efficient leadership model and consequently improve performance. Also, Lopez (2013a), suggests that there is a significant relationship between personality features and leadership style. Moreover, academic work has highlighted the positive impact of Transformational leadership on organizational performance. (García-Morales, Jiménez-Barrionuevo, & Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, 2012)