Post on 09-Jul-2020
Personality Types Rusk ❖ Psychology
What is a personality type? • Basically, your personally type is derived from your
psychological preferences.
• It is about who you are at the core; not what color you like, or your favorite food.
• Your personality type is determined by the patterns of thinking and behavior that develop over time.
• Your personality type, although many people may share some of the common characteristics and are of the same type, is unique and defines who you are.
Personality Theory • The theory of Personality Types contends that each of us has a natural
preference which falls into one category or the other in each of these four areas, based on four preference pairs: – (E)-Extraversion/ (I)-Introversion; – (S)-Sensing Perception/ (N)-Intuitive Perception; – (T)-Thinking Judgment/ (F)-Feeling Judgment; and – (J)-Judging Lifestyle/ (P)-Perceiving Lifestyle.
• Out of these four preference pairs, you will be dominant in one or the other in each pair, resulting in sixteen personality types from which to choose.
• By choosing the dominant letter (E or I, S or N, T or F, J or P) you will come up with a four letter code that is your personality type.
• To begin, look at the four preference pairs and decide which one of each pair most describes you.
• Try to make your decision based on how you see yourself as being the majority of the time, not at any particular moment in time. – You are looking for your personality patterns, identifying the areas in
your life that come easily to you and the areas are that more of a struggle for you..
• After determining which areas seem to be your "natural preferences," write the letters down on a piece of paper.
Extraverts (E) Introverts (I) • energized by being with other people • like being the center of attention • act, then think • tend to think out loud • are easier to 'read' and know, and share personal information freely
• prefer breadth to depth • talk more than listen • communicate with enthusiasm • respond quickly, and enjoy a fast pace • a more outward focus to your environment
• feel comfortable with working in groups • have a wide range of acquaintances and friends
• a "go-getter" or "people-person"
• energized by spending time alone • avoid being the center of attention • think, then act • think things through inside your head • are more private and prefer to share personal information with a select few
• prefer depth to breadth • listen more than talk • keep your enthusiasm to yourself • respond after taking the time to think things through
• a more inward focus to concepts and ideas
• feel comfortable being alone and prefer solitary activities
• prefer fewer, more intense relationships • calm, reserved
Sensors (S) Intuitives (N) • trust what is certain and concrete • like new ideas only if they have practical applications
• value realism and common sense • like to use and hone established skills • tend to be specific and literal. You give detailed descriptions
• present information in a step by step manner
• are oriented to the present • inclined to attend to the immediate, practical, and observable
• realistic and practical; good at grasping facts and details
• patient and careful with precise work and routine
• put experience first and place less trust in words and symbols
• recall events as snapshots and remember the literal aspects of what happened
• trust inspiration and inference • like new ideas and concepts • value imagination and innovation • like to learn new skills and new ways of doing things. You get bored easily after mastering new skills
• Tend to use metaphors and analogies. • present information through leaps, in a roundabout manner
• are oriented towards the future • inclined to attend to future possibilities and implicit or symbolic meanings
• imaginative and insightful; patient in projects with many intangibles and possibilities
• place more trust in insights, symbols, and metaphors and less trust in what is literally experienced
• recall events by intuition and what you "read between the lines"
Thinkers (T) Feelers (F) • apply impersonal analysis to problems • value logic, justice, and fairness, with one standard for all
• naturally see flaws and tend to be critical • may be seen as heartless, insensitive, and uncaring
• consider it more important to be truthful than tactful
• believe feelings are valid only if they are logical
• motivated by a desire for achievement evaluate decisional paths primarily emphasizing thinking and objective logic
• have a technical or scientific orientation • look for logical explanations or solutions for almost everything
• seek objective truth and fairness, regardless of effects, and may be seen as and firm
• prefer to understand experience through logical thinking
• consider effects of action on others • value empathy and harmony and see the exception to the rule.
• naturally like to please others and show appreciation easily
• seen as overemotional, illogical, and weak • consider it important to be tactful as well as truthful.
• believe any feeling is valid, whether it makes sense or not
• motivated by a desire to be appreciated • evaluate decisional paths primarily emphasizing feeling and subjective values
• people or communications orientated • look for what is important to others and • express concern for others • seek harmony and cooperation, sometimes • ignoring the consequences, and may be seen as warm and understanding
• appreciate the merits of others
Judgers (J) Percievers (P) • are happiest after decisions have been made
• have a work ethic, work first - play later • value order, structure, and predictability • prefer knowing what you are getting into • are product oriented, with emphasis on completing the task
• derive satisfaction from finishing projects • see time as a finite resource and take deadlines seriously
• tend to control your life in a very organized, planned, expeditious way, making quick and final decisions
• tolerate and enjoy routine • task oriented and a "list maker" • like to make decisions and have things decided
• Take deadlines seriously
• are happiest leaving their options open • have a play ethic, that is you enjoy now and finish the job later
• value spontaneity and the challenge of dealing with the unexpected
• change goals as new information becomes available like adapting to new situations
• are process oriented, with emphasis on how the task is completed
• derive satisfaction from starting projects • see time as a renewable resource and see deadlines as elastic
• you adapt to life spontaneously through constant information-seeking and inquiry while keeping your options open
• find routine boring and intolerable • loose and casual and keep detailed plans to a minimum
• like staying open to be ready for whatever happens
• interesting developments cause deadlines to fall by the wayside