Dynamics of Personality Development
“This world will not be a good place for any of us to live unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
Personality
usually refers to that which makes a person unique. It can be defined as the
deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of thought, feeling, and
behavior of a person. In other words, knowing someone’s personality will give
you a rough idea of what to expect of a person under certain given
circumstances.
Personality
Types
To help you
understand yourself better, it would be useful to know your personality type
first. So, to help you identify your personality type, the author deemed it
wise to develop a more simplified way of measuring personality types. Based on
the archetypal model of personality that classifies individuals into six
categories, he has come up with the following types:
The
Realistic Type
They possess good motor coordination skills but lack verbal and interpersonal skills. They consider themselves mechanically inclined and like to build things with tools. Also, they hold conventional political and economic goals and prefer concrete to abstract problems.
The Investigative Type
They have a strong scientific orientation and are often task oriented, introspective, and asocial. They would rather think of how to solve a problem than to actually handle one. In addition, they prefer to work alone and enjoy working on ambiguous tasks. Moreover, they have unconventional values and attitudes and are quite confident of their scholarly and intellectual abilities.
The Artistic Type
They prefer unstructured situations that give enough room for creative self-expressions and are prone to impulsive behavior. They are creative, original, intuitive, introspective, nonconforming, and independent. They do not socialize much, yet they have less ego problems.
The Enterprising Type
They possess good verbal skills, and they typically have high energy levels. They have strong leadership skills and are quite domineering by nature. They are aggressive, popular, poised, cheerful, and very sociable. They like ambiguous social tasks and concern themselves much with power, status, leadership, and economic gains.
The Social Type
They regard themselves as understanding, idealistic, and helpful. They are very social, responsible, humanistic, and religious too. They like to work in groups, and they have good interpersonal skills. Additionally, they enjoy activities that involve informing, curing, developing, or enlightening others.
The Conventional Type
They prefer well-ordered environments and are inclined to systematic verbal and numerical activities. They are very efficient when tasks are well-defined and structured. Also, they are calm, orderly, practical, and quite acquiescent. They readily go with the group and do not mind doing subordinate roles. They relate to power, status, material possessions, and value.