People learn a lot about themselves as they live their life. Day by day people experience new things that help them learn and become more and more who they are meant to be. Today is one of those days where I learned a lot about myself. Taking these personality tests really help you think about yourself and get a good insight to who you are and who you want to become. I want to talk about my tolerance for ambiguity, risk taking, locus of control, my big five personality, and my MBTI self-assessment. I also want to explain some new things that I have learned about myself and also who I want to become. Figuring out who you want to become can really change a person’s life and turn your life around for the better.
First of all, tolerance for ambiguity means how easily a person can cope with a situation when a great deal is unknown. I have a greater intolerance for ambiguity. I scored 65 out of 100. That means that I do not handle a situation to the best of my ability when I do not know what is going on. A person may have a high tolerance for ambiguity if he or she does not value rules, procedures and regulations. For the most part, humans always want to know what’s going on. We can be very curious creatures that do not want to be left in the dark. The need to understand and clarify and find answers has leaded us to so many different types of advancements, especially in science and technology. In the long term, it’s served us well. In the short term, it can be a liability. It makes us want to latch on to an answer too quickly rather than live in the uncertainty for a bit longer to see if a more suitable or interesting response is still at hand. Unknowingly, we trade possibility for certainty. But being at 65 out of 100 isn’t bad at all...
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...t to always be happy then that’s good enough for me. I have a pretty good idea of who I am now. I want to be someone very successful with a house, family, traveling, good health, and money. Those five things are my goals in life. I already have an amazing family but I plan to have one of my own one day, and I have good health. One day I will have all five items and that is when I will be at my goal in life. That is the person I want to be. My personality can always use a tweak here and there because no one is perfect, but overall I love my personality and who I am. Every day is a chance to better who you are, what you do, and who you are with. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift…that is why it’s called the present. And it’s not the size of a gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. Cherish everyday that’s given to you.
Uncertainty occurs when an individual cannot adequately categorize an illness related event because of lack of sufficient cues (Alligood, 2014). This uncertainty in life can take many forms. Mishel describes uncertainty in the form of unpredictability, inconsistent information, complexity, and ambiguity (Alligood, 2014).
When one is proceeding through the journey of life and crossing the bridge of development, it is often noted that personality has a major influence on personal health. Sometimes, while searching for the perfect spouse or ideal home, one might get wrapped up in the adventure that life throws at them, and they do not realize the extent to which their personality, throughout their everyday lives, affects their health. This, therefore, creates an ideal space for scientists and psychologists across the world to study the impact of the various factors of personality on health. Some of the major factors that are commonly studied within Personality Psychology are the Big-Five
To humans, life appears to be a dynamic, unpredictable environment to which diversity they react and behave in a certain particular way best suiting to their respective preferences introducing the notion of personality; Psychologists, over time, after various studies, have come along with a series of standardized characteristics that tend to be the mostly manifested while examining personalities and finally came up with the popularly known as The Big Five Theory. On this paper I will get into a description of myself according this theory’s 5 aspects which are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, agreeableness and Neuroticism;
I believe our personalities make up who we are and how others perceive us at times. Personalities are our own unique qualities, that we possess as individuals. In writing this short paper, I have found that psychologists use assessments to define an individual’s personality to determine their qualities and what makes them different from other individuals. Through the Big Five Personality test, I found it difficult to define and understand an individual personality
Each individual in this world has a distinctive identity. Even twins and triplets, who appear to be similar in their physical traits, have separate individual identities. After taking the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, I was able to affirm some of my specific personality traits that define me. I am active and curious and I never tire of adventure. I enjoy every bit of my life. Until now, I have discovered just a portion of my specific identity, but I will reveal the mystery of my identity in this exciting and adventurous journey of my life.
Three aspects of my personality are avoidant, high on conscientiousness and a high need for achievement. These personality characteristics were studied using different theories, the attachment theory, Big Five, and the motivational theory. Together, these aspects make me who I am. I am someone who is driven, hard working, disciplined, and has a hard time trusting and letting other people into my personal life. Everyone has their different personality traits which make them unique, and that’s the beauty of humans. No one is exactly like anyone
Twenge, J. M., & Campbell, K. W. (2016). Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and Others. Boston:
Ambiguity, not to be confused with vagueness, occurs when something is open to one or more interpretation. Ambiguous situations are usually drawn from the information within a story. Authors intentionally use this tool in literature to force the reader to interpret the story for him or herself. Ambiguity in literature serves to create a deeper meaning of a literary work. The reader is given the liberty to be able to use their imagination to explore and interpret new meanings behind a work.
A person’s personality has been the subject of psychological scrutiny for many years. Psychologists have drawn up several theories in an attempt to accurately predict and determine one’s personality. Foremost amongst these, is the “Big Five Trait Theory” which stemmed from Raymond B. Cattell’s theory.
In the vast and detailed world of psychology, there are a variety of different tests you can participate in. For example, you can participate in aptitude, verbal or numerical reasoning, and psychometric tests. These tests assess on a variety of different situations such as: behaviors, abilities and intelligence. Personality tests, a common and favored test, measure things such as: behavioral style, opinions, motivators, personal values and career interests. Most often, people complain or disagree with the score of some areas on their personality test; however, there are no right or wrong answers. After completing this personality test and reviewing the results, I found that the overall scoring accurately described me in most areas. The Big Five Personality test scores in five different areas involving openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
As a college student I am faced with many situations throughout my daily life, while I believed I maintain a certain consistent personality through the process of this paper I was able to identify how my personality differed or stayed the same based on situations I was in. Through the course of this study, I was able to identify when five of what I feel are my most prominent personality traits were most prevalent and how they changed depending on the situation. The five personality traits I chose were humorous, imaginative, sarcastic, optimistic, and helpful. The situations I choose to look at were me in class, at work, with a friend, with family, and when I was alone studying.
Who we are? This is the basic question to find out. What we think about ourselves, how we look at ourselves and our relationship to the world? all these things help us to examine ourselves that who we are and what we want to be?
The scrutinizing of personality traits is profitable in identifying the many variables that exist from person to person. Hence, the merger of variables will help us with a true level of individuality. According to Roberts, (2009), “personality traits are defined as relatively enduring patterns of behavior, thought, and feeling that are relatively consistent across a wide variety of situations and contexts” (P. 3). However, to test the concept of traits, theorists are using different approaches to them. We can classify traits into wide- ranging structures, also called the trait approach. Hence, a trait theory a key to comprehending one’s behavior. However, personality traits are unchanging throughout one’s life span. The traits are what makes
Many psychologists have attempted to explain or categorize individual ambiguity tolerance. Tolerance of ambiguity is referred as the tendency to observe uncertain situations as desirable. On the other hand, Intolerance of ambiguity is the tendency to observe uncertain situations as sources of threat. According to the Tolerance of Ambiguity assessment, my tolerance of ambiguity is moderate scoring 88. People with high tolerance accept uncertainty as a natural part of life, whereas the people with low tolerance consider uncertainties as threats. As I am neither high nor low in the tolerance of ambiguity, which means I do not take uncertainty as a natural part of life nor consider uncertainties as threats. Unlike the low tolerance of ambiguity people, I do not worry about my future, I go with the flow, let whatever has to
The concept of personality has numerous definitions (Fatahi, Moradi, & Kashani-Vahid, 2016). Schultz and Schultz (2009), define personality in its broad sense as the manner of an individual’s behaviour in different situations. This essay explores the nature of personality, with the intention of highlighting its flexibility. The results of numerous empirical research studies are examined in order to investigate if, and how personality changes over time. It will be argued that an individual’s personality has the ability to change throughout their life.