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Personality

Discover the significance of understanding personality traits, including its academic, social, and career benefits. Learn about measurement methods like Myers-Briggs and the Big Five Traits to gain insight into your own disposition.

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Personality

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  1. Personality Intro to Wellness

  2. What is personality? The particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Refers to dispositions in the person that help to determine his behavior and that differ from one person to another.

  3. Why is it important to know about your personality? • It can help you academically • It can help identify your strengths & weaknesses • It can help you develop better relationships by becoming more understanding and accepting of people who are different from you • It can help choose a major and a career choice

  4. Measuring Personality Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Jung Typology The Big Five Personality Traits

  5. Carl Jung Typology Jung concluded that differences in behavior result from people’s inborn tendencies to use their minds in different ways. As people act on these tendencies, the develop patterns of behavior.

  6. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Created during World War II to help women entering the workforce for the first time. A questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

  7. Preferences • The MBTI & Jung’s Typology report preferences on four dichotomies, each consisting of two opposite poles. • What is a preference? • Sign your name as you normally do. • Sign your name with your opposite hand.

  8. Four Dichotomies

  9. Indicators

  10. The Big Five Personality Traits Unlike MBTI, the Big 5 is not based on anyone’s theory of behavior Began in 1936, 18,000 words from the English dictionary were identified that could be used to distinguish a person’s behavior Over time and many different studies, it was narrowed down to FIVE

  11. The Big Five Personality Traits • Extroversion – Level of sociability & enthusiasm • Conscientiousness – Level of organization & work ethic • Agreeableness- Level of friendliness & kindness • Neuroticism- Level of calmness & tranquility • Openness – Level of creativity & curiosity

  12. The Big Five Personality Traits in Movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9D6k3T2sbE

  13. What is your personality? • www.medwaype.weebly.com

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