Theories Of Personality Article Analysis

As a child, going to the store with my mom was the highlight of my week. I would always beg her to stop and let me look at the magazines in the book section. I could have spent hours there doing all the personality quizzes and seeing what my “signature style” was. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure what all the results meant, but I knew I liked it and that it made me feel important that they were “my” results. Saving the best for last, I would then flip to the back to look at the horoscopes. Being a Cancer, the traits were always “caring” and “sensitive”. I would look to see who my “love match” was and what my lucky numbers were. Ever since those days, the questions of “What is a personality?”, “What types of personalities are there?”, and “Are

Yet, how accurate are theses assessments if they are used applied to a bigger group? Do grouping personalities together make it easier to identify them or harder to identify them? Yet, theses questions remained unanswered by the website. In addition, the question of what are the different personalities still lingered. In the article, there is a section entitled “Theories of Personality”. Being written by an expert, some of the terms were hard to understand such as “psychodynamic”. However, the average person most likely doesn’t know what the word means and the website didn’t define what it was. This makes the question their capability of understanding the rest of the article, maybe even hindering their comprehension of some of the material. It was if it was common sense to know the different personality types and come ready to the website to know the theories of personalities. This website, although from a credible source, made it difficult for the average, everyday person without a degree in psychology to understand the

The articles that were from a source such as a blog with an unknown author were much easier to understand versus that from an expert or a degree in that field. If a word was unknown it didn’t completely take away a whole lot from the article as you were still able to understand it for the most part. However, with an unknown author, the question of how reliable and accurate the article is present. With an article written by a psychologist expert, the words are harder to understand and are explained little if at all. The websites from experts, also appear to be less visually appealing versus the brightly colored pages of a blog. As a result, an individual might not find credible information having written off the visual look of the credible sources page(s). The last two articles researched left classic stakeholder cases to be presented, the power of peers and social media. The first article argued that peers shape our personality to our strengths and that while growing up, they helped reinforce your strengths. They see you on a regular basis and their reactions and opinions ultimately lead to the formation of your current personality. It then goes on to say that your peers “permanently skew your personality towards strengths.”(Meir) This phrase gives a negative connotation as to how the peers mold a