Personality Personality is the enduring patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize a person Myers Briggs Type Indicators Five Factors Model Big Five and performance Specifically Agreeableness In service industry Openness to experience In creative and media Extroversion Sales and management
Lecture 12 Personality Scope for Today • Personality • Myers Briggs Type Indicators • Five Factors Model Personality Personality is the enduring patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize a person enduring ! Personality Determinates • Heredity Study of twins • Environment e.g first born are more hardworking, ambitious less likely to break the rules, more concerned with social acceptance First Born Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Myers Briggs Type Indicators MBTI There are many different ways (or traits) to describe Personality And this should be Subject of a psychology course The most well-known is Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Beijing Finance & Economics School Myers Briggs Type Indicator Developed by Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs, Myers Briggs Type Indicator was published in 1962 It is the most widely used personality test The Theoretical foundation is from Carl Jung, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud MBTI® Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs The mother read a book by Carl Jung and passed it to the daughter The Famous Psychologists 1900-1920s Psychoanalysis Subconscious The Interpretation of Dreams Oedipus Complex Sigmund Freud Austrian Carl Jung German Speaking Swiss Psychological Archetypes • MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicators) Most Popular • Five Factor Model Most Respected Five Factors Model “Big Five” by McCrae and Costa (1987) Five Factors “CANOE” Personality dimension Conscientiousness describing people who are dependable, careful, and self-discipline Agreeableness Including the traits of being courteous, good-natured, empathy, and caring Neuroticism Describing people with high level of anxiety, hostility, depression, and self-consciousness Openness to Experience Describing people who are imaginative, creative, curious, and aesthetically Sensitive Extroversion characterize people who are out-going, talkative, sociable, and assertive http://www.personalitytest.o rg.uk/ http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ My Five Factors Conscientiousness High Agreeableness High Neuroticism Average Openness to experience Average Extroversion Low I am only average in neuroticism My Neuroticism My Neuroticism (cont…) Performance Clear evidence in Conscientiousness Neuroticism Big Five and performance Specifically Agreeableness In service industry Openness to experience In creative and media Extroversion Sales and management Other Personality Types Willingness to risk Type A/B Type A is aggressively involved in a struggle to achieve more in less and less Time Type B is rarely hurried by the desire to obtain more things and participate in more event Mach Type Machiavellianism – desire for self interest Pragmatic, maintaining emotional distance, believes that end justifies the mean High Mach Low Mach Nicola Machiavelli The Prince , 1513 End ... • Personality • Myers Briggs Type Indicators • Five Factors Model Personality Personality is the enduring patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize a person enduring ! Personality. .. an objective, logical, and analytical manner with an emphasis on tasks and results to be accomplished Feeling Judgment make their decisions in a somewhat global, visceral, harmony and value-oriented... • MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicators) Most Popular • Five Factor Model Most Respected Five Factors Model “Big Five by McCrae and Costa (1987)