...Personality Characteristics Saundra Moskoff PSYCH 504 November 21, 2011 Angela J.W. Steele, Psy. D. Personality Characteristics People differ from one another not only in physical appearance but also psychologically. An individual’s persona is a mixture of life span experiences in addition to genetic characteristics (Cervone & Pervin, 2010). Saundra Moskoff focused on three personality traits: self-esteem, autonomy, and sociability, and examined how the characteristics developed during her childhood through family and social relations, and education. Self-Esteem Self-esteem is a general evaluation of one’s worth as a person and according to Uszyńska-Jarmoc, (2007), takes the form of a desire to improve, guard, and defend the self, and has an important influence on a child’s behavior. Early Development Saundra Moskoff, née Johnson, was born in 1968, a time in the United States fraught with racial unrest and violence. As an African American child, she was aware of the differences in the people she watched on TV, and saw in the books she enjoyed. Saundra’s parents exposed her to positive images of female African Americans such as writer May Angelou and performer Sheila Frazier. In addition to an African American inheritance, Saundra inherited the height of her tall Osage ancestors, and was much taller than her peers were. By the time Saundra was age 5, she was almost four-feet tall. Saundra found being tall more unbearable than being an African American. Her parents...
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...individuals and groups from a broad spectrum of demographic and philosophical differences. The list of these differences is endless and apart from the major differences of race and gender, it also encompasses a myriad of other characteristics such as religion, marital status, political beliefs, education, military status, lifestyle, social class, appearance and personality. These differences can be visible or hidden as demonstrated in the Myplace: The Place for Diversity multimedia. A very small percentage of our diversity differences seem to be visible until you get to know the other person. Race, ethnicity, age, attitude or gender are dimensions that are visible to the naked eye. For example, a person with darker skin is different from a person with lighter skin color. The same applies to other blatantly obvious physical attributes like gender which allows us to pick out males from females. In the multimedia presentation there is Michelle who was born in Ireland but moved to the United States when she was 3. One can obviously tell that she is Caucasian and female but you cannot tell she is Irish because she doesn’t have the accent. This goes to show that as much as we may look alike or assume that we are the same based off observable characteristics we are still different and unique in our own way. It is not always possible to...
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...development because of their engagement with human conditions. The academic discipline of human services educate these professionals at the associate, bachelor’s, and graduate levels and studies how public policies and delivery systems influence service users. Working in human service professions can call for special efforts and require professionals with skills and characteristics that make them effective. Flexibility “allows human services professionals to shift their perspectives on the nature of helping, their views of the client and the client’s problems, and their preferred intervention” (Woodside & McClam, 2011, p. 172). Professionals are willing to modify, abandon, or reconsider their approaches to helping when they meet unexpected situations. Flexibility is an important characteristic as human service professionals work with people representing different cultural and ethnic groups. Empathy is “acceptance of another person” (Woodside & McClam, 2011, p. 171). This characteristic allows the human service professional to experience a feeling or see a situation from the perspective of the client. This characteristic would be easier for professionals who have had similar experiences to those of their clients. Empathy is important because it allows you to see things from the client’s...
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...the workplace often depends on his/her personality, attitudes and values, along with his/her motivation to succeed. Concurrently, the perception, attitudes and values of colleagues in the workplace play a role in determining the individual’s effectiveness. Understanding these characteristics of employees can be very crucial for organizations to operate successfully. At the same time, it is essential that employees understand the values associated with the organization in order to avoid any conflicting feelings toward the work they are employed to do. By recognizing and appreciating each other’s characteristics and constraints, employees and the organizations they are part of, form a highly-beneficial symbiotic relationship. Thus, it becomes imperative for employees to remain motivated and for organizations to keep them motivated. Personal Reflection Having read and understood the importance of personality, attitudes, values, and motivation to succeed, in the workplace, I reflected upon my own characteristic traits to predict my effectiveness in the workplace. Personality Heredity. A very important factor that determines certain aspects of our personality is heredity. Although heredity is responsible for one’s biological, physiological and psychological makeup, and it plays a major role on the personality characteristics of a child, but as you grow into an adult, it is possible, and highly probable that a lot of these characteristics would undergo changes as one experiences...
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...Characteristics and Behaviors of Effective Counseling The counseling profession is a broad landscape with many paths, directions and journeys. When one decides to expand on their personal or professional lives by delving into the helping profession, many questions arise to help make an informed decision as to where their efforts will be more useful. Even taking into consideration their own history, personality and desires. These attributes, when looked at from an informed perspective, allow individuals to put forth their best and become effective counselors. But what does being an effective counselor look like? For one, being an effective counselor begins with the question “what is motivating me to be a counselor?” (Sheperis & Ellis, 2014, pg. 162). According to the media provided, Gail Mear, Bob Walsh and Norm Dasenbrook explained some of the characteristics they thought are used during therapy sessions. These characteristics ranged from being a helping person, being able to set boundaries, being empathic so you are able to understand your client’s feelings and grasp where those feelings are coming from and collaboration. This paper will expand on some of those characteristics and also provide critique on a session to help understand not only those characteristics which are effective, but those that may be ineffective during a counseling session. Effective Characteristics Kottler believed that the professional counselor should inhabit characteristics in order to...
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...Some researchers believe that the born characteristics are more important for the development of personality than the experience we may have in our live. In fact, innate traits are inevitable and may affect our life in the long term. However, in my own opinion, experience is the major influence that plays the vital role in forming our qualification. I believe this thing is true for these two main reasons. Firstly, personality can be changed through education. Children are sent to school to learn how to behave well and have a good awareness of the fairness, the love, the rights and the success. We will know what should do and what should not do to suit the life‘s condition and to keep all the relationship much longer. Secondly, the outside factors affect us in many ways, especially our friends. The old saying ‘’ A man is known by the company he keeps’’ always remind you of how much the surrounding people affect you. For instance, you play with a group of people, so you tend to imitate their hobbies, their style and so on. Moreover, you may change your appearance or even your own characteristic to look like the rest of them in order to join the group perfectly. In addition, my own experience supports my statement a lot. I used to be lazy in studying and never dreamed of good marks. My parents complained about my result all the time and forced me to study much more. I had many friends and they were all learn well at school. They set an example for me and I consciously knew...
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...The results of my PRINT survey aptly evaluated me to be a 5-9, which is to say I seek to be knowledgeable and smart, and also to have peace and harmony. I will admit to being skeptical towards the evaluation initially, but after receiving my results, I must admit that it seems to be pretty accurate in most regards. The main unconscious motivator I have been assigned, “to be knowledgeable and smart”, is not surprising to me. In fact, it may have been my first guess had I been able to look at the categories before taking the survey. Attributes on the “Best Self” list such as ‘perceptive, innovative’, ‘independent, likes solitude’, and ‘good thinking skills, logical’ are perfect summaries of what I would consider my strongest traits. I typically like to take in all the information that I can about a given topic or subject before I make any decision, I often feel like my best work is done in solitude, and I’m always seeking to learn new skills. My professional work will benefit greatly if I use these traits as the basis of my self-growth over the course of my career. While the ‘Best Self’ list of traits came as no shock to me, I found the list of ‘Shadow’ traits to be a true revelation. Though I had known I possessed some of these negative behaviors, I had never considered the concept that they were directly associated with my ‘Best Self’ traits. Seeing them written down on paper allowed me to internalize them. I will now be able to identify these shadow behaviors when they...
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...See Characteristics of a Charismatic Leader Charismatic leaders are known to attract followers and inspire people to new heights (Basu). Attracting followers and inspiring people takes a certain type of personality or certain characteristics. People just don’t follow any single person. Something draws people in and once in these people can be inspired to do things. Some people, like Charles Manson, drew in followers and inspired them to murder; while some people, like Gandhi, drew in followers and inspired them to be better people. (Rosenberg, Charles Manson) (Rosenberg, Gandhi-Biography of Mahatma Gandhi) Manson and Gandhi had certain characteristics that drew people to them in the first place. These may have included maturity, communication skills, humility, and substance. Other traits include not just leading but being liked, care for others before you care for yourself, celebrate life and inspire enthusiasm, see the best in people and channel it, deal in hope and spread the goodies (Alain, 2011). Charismatic leaders do not necessarily have all of these traits but these would be what to look for when choosing a charismatic leader. Charismatic leaders need to be mature. This does not refer to age. This maturity is a buildup of wisdom over years through experience. This wisdom can be in business it can be in whatever are the person excels. Manson new how to draw in women and used that knowledge to start a cult. Communication is a key characteristic. Leaders...
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...possessing them is an effective leader. Underlying the trait approach is the assumption that some people are natural leaders and are endowed with certain traits not possessed by other individuals. This research compared successful and unsuccessful leaders to see how they differed in physical characteristics, personality, and ability.http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Leadership-Defined.topicArticleId-8944,articleId-8913.html There have some traits of a leader found in general: * Confidence: Leaders are self confident, they do not afraid to take ownership for both popular and unpopular decisions. They must be able to learn from criticisms, and are often acutely aware of their own shortcomings. Confident leaders are able to maintain a calm demeanor even during emergencies, and this can be contagious when it needs to be. http://www.money-zine.com/Career-Development/Leadership-Skill/Leadership-Characteristics/ * Conviction: A strong vision and the willingness to see it through is one of the most important characterizes of leadership. The leader who believes in the mission and works toward it will be an inspiration and a resource to their followers. * Honesty: Another characteristic of leadership that lends itself to credibility. Those who are honest, especially about concerns, make it far more likely that problem will be solved rather than avoided. Honesty also allows for better assessment and growth. * Communication: The leader must have good communication...
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...well they can do their jobs. A leader is someone that many people look to for direction, guidance, and inspiration, so it is important for our leaders to have the aptitude to make difficult decisions and to know and do what is right for the people. A higher authority is crucial for supervising and regulating others as well as being an example of a hard and dedicated worker. An effective leader has character, competence, compassion, and courage. Character is, as discussed in class, possibly the most important characteristic of a leader. A person’s true character is who they are when they are put in a difficult situation. It is the decisions and the morality of a leader that gives them the respectable character that others look to follow. It is essential for a leader to have character because a leader needs the ability to see what other cannot, the sacrifices that must be made, even if the sacrifice is their own, or another person’s life. The second characteristic is competence. Having Competence means that one knows what must be done. It is possessing the skills to do ones task properly. This quality is vital for a leader because they are the people that command others. If they themselves do not know what their job is, it will be difficult to properly instruct others. Thirdly, Compassion is important for a leader to have because when the people see that the leader cares for them, they will be more trusting of the decisions that he makes. Also, recognizing and taking the...
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...dilemma about the main factor that shapes our personality. Some people hold the idea that the role of characteristic is so vital on our personality,while others contend that the experience of life has much more impact on development of our personality. In this essay,I will try to point out my reasons why I strongly support the idea that experience is the most important factor that can influence our personality as well as development. To begin with, it is an undeniable fact that everybody has a unique personality. Characteristics that we have may change during our lifetime. For instance,if one is unsociable,he or she has to change it in order to get along with other people easily. The example follows that our characteristics can be changed by various situations. Moreover,the experience that we may have in our lives,can change our personality and development. The following example shows how it is important : If one experiences failure,it will affect his or her development fairly. To be more precise, next time he or she will try not to repeat this mistake. We may also take education as an example. Because, education is experience that may change not only our personality and development, but also our future. Therefore, the experience is the most significant factor that changes our personality as well as characteristics. Taking into account all of these above,we may reach a conclusion that experience is the major factor of personality and development in our...
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...have on the current business model of the company? Customer analysis The customer analysis is the depth analysis of the end-users; this entails all of the characteristics of the customer. These characteristics include the following: * Geographic characteristics * Demographic characteristics * Psychographic characteristics * Behavioral characteristics These characteristics all combined can identify the exact group of end-users that are targeted by companies like Netflix. Geographic characteristics Geographic characteristics, also known as geographic segmentations, include the details the operation area of the company. Netflix is viewed on an international market, which implies that the operating area is the global streaming market, at least in this case. Netflix doesn’t focus on all countries yet, their main focus is, according to the recent data, on the following countries: * * USA * Canada * Ireland * UK * Norway * Sweden * Denmark * Finland * The Netherlands Another detail of the operation area of Netflix is the internet. Netflix is mainly operating and generating cash flows from the World Wide Web. This identifies the customers to only the potential customers that have access to the World Wide Web. Demographic characteristics Demographic characteristics, also known as the Demographic segmentations, include the details of the customer’s categories that are targeted by the companies. These categories are for...
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...Richelle Machado Effective Counselor Characteristics Walden University COUN 6100 According to the text, “counselor characteristics are an important part of the therapeutic dynamic (Sheperis, D. S., & Ellis, C. M., 2010).” Counselor’s characteristics are formed by one’s personality and how that counselor uses his or her personality in their approaches to therapy. In the media Counselor Characteristics, Gail Mear, Bob Walsh and Norm Dasenbrook all explained a few counselor characteristics they believed are used during therapy. Some of those characteristics that are effective are being that helping person (through this with training a counselor gains a skill set to help the client), setting boundaries (being able to know when to set limits in counseling between you as the counselor and your client), empathic counselor (being able to understand your clients feelings and grasp where those feelings are coming from), Self-Awareness (counselors encourage clients though process of belief that they can achieve anything, have faith in the clients you work with but also be aware that not everything they tell you is the truth), lastly collaboration (by working together as a system and using your people skills your collaboration with your client will be more effective). An ineffective characteristic that I got from the media was codependency, making sure to pay attention to times when counselors become too involved in their clients therapy or lives...
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... knowledge and understanding of the differences. Diversity brings out the different qualities in each individual which makes us interesting? We need to base what we think about someone by their hidden characteristics and not their visual, otherwise we are judging them unfairly. The way you look or the way you were raised is your visual characteristics and this is not the most important. However this is what most people base their opinions on. If you would get to know ones hidden characteristics along with their visual we could understand a person more in their diversity. Understanding the hidden Not only can diversity be seen there is some diversity that cannot be known unless we get to know the person better. For instance, Jenna, (profiled in; ‘My Place: The Place for Diversity’) would be judged based on her visual characteristics. If you were see her at the store she would be judged based upon the way she looked and by her appearance. An...
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...When society thinks of tragedy we think of a terrible or horrible accident happening to a person or to a group of people, most of the times resulting in hospitalization or worse, death. Another example of this type of tragedy could be a loved one who goes away on vacation and contracts a rare and unusual disease which could possibly result in death. Not all types of tragedies always result in a certain death. Tragedy in a classical Greek sense sets up a protagonist to begin the action in the tragedy. What lead to the tragedies is the protagonist’s characteristics. These characteristics are naturally supposed to be positive and noble but in the end, these characteristics are what caused the downfall in the protagonist. Everyone loves vacations because they get a break from reality and get to relax for once. Coming back home from vacation is probably the worst part of the experience, especially if you came back not knowing you contracted an infection from your vacationing destination. Not only have you contracted this horrible infection, you find out that it is an incurable disease.“The disease, which causes severe bruising and uncontrolled bleeding, is untreatable and is fatal in a third of cases” (Cameron, 1). Not only does the United Kingdom need to worry about the person who has the disease, they need to make sure no one else has contracted it and that it does not spread. This incident is forming the first type of tragedy because this is an incurable disease from another country...
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