November 9 Part 1 Personal Thinking Styles: Upon my completion of the LSI survey, I have identified my primary and secondary (backup) thinking styles. They are conventional and self-actualizing. My results in the conventional style of thinking have me ranked in the 90th percentile with a raw score of 22. This is my primary thinking style. The conventional thinking style describes individuals who are pretty much set in their
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Every manager supposed to know all of his strengths and weaknesses knowing that he/she will be dealing with people of all different behaviors. Knowing your strengths and weakness is the key asset to successfully manage an organization. For this purpose Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty developed The Life Style Inventory (LSI) for self-improving purposes for the reasons of increasing a personal and professional effectiveness. The LSI measures 12 specific styles of patterns of thinking that can either help
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determinants of one’s personality. Personality refers to those characteristics of a person that accounts for consistent patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving (Lawrence A. Pervin, 2005). Due to the multifaceted nature of human beings, no one paradigm or theory can be said to perfectly or correctly explain personality each may focus on particular aspects and neglect other aspects. All the theories however, agree one thing; that people differ from each other as is the case with Natasha and her brother
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what we believe are some of the most important differences between these two popular instruments. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) measures twelve distinct thinking and behavioral styles that are distinguished by their orientations toward task versus people and higher-order needs for satisfaction and growth versus lower order needs for security and safety. The LSI builds on the work of a variety of noteworthy psychologists, including Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Karen Horney, Timothy Leary
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deals with conscious awareness of the inner self, which brings about growth on different levels. According to Maslow one must gravitate through his Hierarchy of needs to reach self-actuality. (Feist, Feist & Roberts, 2013) Maslow believed there is always a way to reach full happiness and contentment with the choices one makes, which is centered on external forces. Maslow’s views were based more on positive growth and believed anyone could reach self-actuality. His humanistic views are encouraging
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towards people and ourselves. In some cases we have to take a step back and analyze the reasons why we act the way we do. There are ways we can do this by writing how we feel down, having someone analyze us, or taking surveys. The LSI survey is a way we can see where we fit in amongst other individuals. This survey helps assess our personality characteristics and other traits according to how we interact in society. I took the survey to see where my personality traits rate with other people. I will
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their journey toward self-actualization. From Carl Rogers’s development of the actualizing tendency and the formative tendency to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, there is a diverse range of perspective. In this paper, we will analyze how humanistic and existential theories affect individual personalities and explain how these personality theories influence interpersonal relationships. Effect on Individual Personalities Our personalities consist of many complex characteristics and have been classified
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hierarchy of needs begins with physiological needs, moves on to safety, then to love and belongingness, esteem, and concludes with self-actualization. Maslow believed that the needs lower in the staircase have prepotency, meaning that they “must be satisfied or mostly satisfied before higher level needs become activated” (Feist & Feist, 2009, ch.10). In other words, people need their basic needs, such as eating and drinking, met before they will even care about their safety and security. Once a person
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Life Style Inventory: My Self-Description Personal Thinking Style Primary and Back up thinking Style: As per the LSI results my Primary thinking style is “Approval” (98 percentile) and back up style is “Humanistic –Encouraging” (93 percentile). But I don’t think I am absolutely following these styles for all the situations. There are several instances in my life where my thinking patterns are varied. I think I have adopted this thinking style from my parents and cultural roots. Hindu culture
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a person’s actions are constantly being motivated directly by one need, or another (Feist, 2013). The holistic-dynamic theory also suggests that a person has the potential to grow towards what Maslow deemed self-actualization, or reaching full potential. In order to achieve this goal of self-actualization, you must first satisfy all of the other needs on a pyramid that Maslow created (Feist, 2013). The hierarchy of needs starts at the bottom with physiological needs, like hunger and sleep. In
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