Analyzing My Personality

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A Second Personality:

Not an ESTJ but an ENFP

STEP 1

“WHAT ABOUT ME”

My scores were very surprising to me, I scored very high on the Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability and my lowest score was in the Openness to Experience, which I thought was very accurate as I do find myself to be conventional. According to the “Big Five model” it is a measure of one’s reliability; also having a high score such as I did it says that I am responsible, organized and dependable (Robbins & Judge, p. 108).

My personality score was an ENFP, I thought of myself more as an ESTJ. According to the Jungian 16 – Type Personality test, I am an Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeler, and Perceiver. I am also learned that I do in fact have a Type –A personality scoring a 111, meaning that I prefer to work alone rather on teams, and prefer a routine. I scored very high on job satisfaction, which was right on the mark, I love being a United States Marine.

For the motivation insights I had a high growth needs, which can be interrupted as being unsatisfied, which would be true as a Marine you want to work your way up the rank structure. Whereas my existence needs were super low, meaning I feel what I do as a chosen profession has satisfied my existence. I do have a desire to excel and improve upon past performance as my achievement score suggest. Am I procrastinator? According to the personality test I am not, I found this difficult to believe as I find myself postponing task sometime all too often until the last minute. However, I believe the test is accurate as sometimes I act prematurely and wish to take back my actions.

My ethics were equal to the social norm meaning there was no stand out scores. I had an average Emotional Intelligence (EI) score, a...

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Kroeger, O., Thuesen, J. M., & Rutledge, H. (2002). Type talk at work: How the 16 personality types determine your success on the job. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.

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Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2009). Organization behavior. (13th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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