Emotional Dynamics Case Study

Case Study 1

1.On a scale emotional stability Eric would be placed much closer to Neurotic than emotionally stable. Eric is a very insecure person. When it came down to him getting a job interacting with people, he would look at himself as a person and believe that he would get rejected if interviewed. However, the double to this point is that he has full confidence in landing a job based on his master’s thesis or dissertation. Eric further proves himself to be insecure by believing that no woman would find him attractive or be interested in pursuing a relationship with him. He drove this point home once by actually telling a woman, who was trying to get to know the people in the group, that she wouldn’t want to know him.

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When it comes down to being open or conventional, Eric would be characterized as quite conventional. Eric would turn down opportunities to try new things with his friends. He would not want go to places like museums or and theaters to cultivate some culture. He would also refuse to go to sporting events. Eric would also be quite intolerant. When his office mate would talk to their co-workers, Eric would show he was discontent with the situation by making sure that his office mate and whoever he was talking knew that he was trying to work and that they were bothering him. Moreover, Eric would also make clear to his office mate that he bothered him by playing music. Eric also showed his conventionalism with his simplicity. Both his clothing and his home were simple and basic. Moreover, he wouldn’t care that his home or clothing were aesthetically unappealing. Furthermore, he is also very routine-oriented. Should anything that he owned wore out he would just get something very similar to

Eric, based on this case would score low on agreeableness. Eric is quite a suspicious person. Being the only Jewish person on his campus and along with him being suspicious he would tend to feel persecuted. At a point in time Eric was disregarded as a possible teaching assistant due to his lack of sociability. However, due to his suspicious nature Eric took this disregarding of him as discrimination due to his Heritage. Furthermore, during a forecast predicting game that would be held every week, Eric would post his results as one of the last people because he would be concerned that other people would use his results to base their own results on and possibly improve upon his own. Moreover, Eric would not trust anyone unless he knew them for a long period of