Personality Reflection

Using the textbook, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources, answer the following questions. Your responses to each question will vary but overall should be 700- to 1,050-words in length.

1. How would you define personality? Personality is made up of a characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique. Personality arises within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. Quality or condition of being person. The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental traits of a person. The total of quality and traits, as a character or behavior, that a peculiar to a specific person.

2. What are some key personality features that define you? I believe the top six of my personality features are; shy, hardworker, truthful, caring, good listener and forgiving.
1. Shy- I am a very quiet person I stay to myself and do not like to stand out. I am shy to get up in front of class and do a presentation. If I am in a group and everyone is all talking majority of the time I will just sit and listen, I may say a few words but not much.
2. Hardworker- I am a supervisor at my job and one thing that I expect from my employees is that if they see me working they better be working just as hard as I am. The material things I have in my life came from me proving myself at my job. Hardly working is not an option. The only way you will get somewhere in life or even to have a good job is by working hard.
3. Truthful- I do not like it when someone lies to me. I feel the best way to have good communication is honesty. Once you tell a little white lie you will have to cover that one up with another lie. The best policy is just to be honest and truthful, no matter how painful it may be to hear the truth.
4. Caring- I have a very soft heart for anyone that may be in pain. It hearts my heart to see anyone in pain or going through a difficult situation. I like to comfort the one’s I love if they are having a bad day. I have six grandchildren and I spoil them so much. But when they are feeling bad I just love on them even more.
5. Good listener- this is where my sister, niece and my daughter come in the picture. No matter what they feel that when they need someone to talk to they call me. I will listen until they are done getting what they need to say out. I may give some advice, but I know when they call they want to get something off their chest.
6. Forgiving- I have been through so much in my life with my ex-husband. So many terrible things done to me. I had anger once upon a time over the situation, but today we can talk on the phone and laugh together. People say how can you be friends with him. Like I tell them what happened is the past, I will not let the past try to run my future. Forgiving is a part of life, like the saying goes “You can forgive but you won’t forget”.

3. What key concepts or “constructs” are used to explain your personality? My key is being introvert even though I do not say much, when I get upset I can be very outspoken, because being shy sometimes people think they can get over on you. But they soon find out the quiet people are the ones you watch out for.

4. Are your personality features consistent or do they change according to the situation? My personality features I would say stay the same. Because I am pretty laid back, and something very, very bad would have to make me change in a different mood. Even if I am upset I am still shy, I will still care if something is going wrong with my loved ones, I will still listen if someone calls me, now if they make me mad I probably would not forgive them right at the moment, but eventually I would forgive them. I feel that God made everyone with different personalities, you have some people that have snobby personalities, some with no feelings and so one. I am satisfied with my personalities because I feel that I am a kind and caring person. I try to see good in everyone, but everyone is not.

5. Have you ever taken a personality test before? If so, what was your reaction to the analysis? If not, what would you expect a proper test to measure? I have taken a personality test and from the results I was not surprised. The test showed that I was an Introvert which did not surprise me. It showed that I was caring, loyal and forgiving. These are things that I already knew so the test just was accurate about my personality.

6. What would make a personality test reliable and valid? If the person was real about taking the test and answering the question of who they really are instead of answering the questions about who they want to be. If they stay real to themselves the test would be reliable, but some people have personalities within in them that they may not like, so they may not answer truthfully.