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Types of Personality: 'A', 'B', 'C'

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Types of Personality Type A Personality The Type A personality generally lives at a higher stress level. Some of the factors related to their working at this level are given below: 1) They enjoy achievement of goals. 2) They enjoy achieving goals that are more difficulit. 3) They constantly keep working hard to achieve their goals. 4)Once they start to work they cannot stop, even when they have achieved goals. 5) They feel the pressure of time, as they have to reach their goals within the stipulated time period. 6) They work so hard that there is no rest that they take and thus are totally exhausted. 7) They are highly competitive and generally creates competition if there is none as it gives them great enjoyment and pleasure to compete and win. 8) They hate failures and work hard to avoid it. 9)They are well educated persons and successful too and physically they appear fine even though they are highly stressed out. Development of...
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Allport Proprium Theory

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The Proprium Allport clarified that personality is not bundle of unrelated traits but they are traits in a personality which have between them a consistency, unity and integration. This implies that the personality has a clear organisation and structure and also is governed by certain important principles. This entire orgnisation was called by Allport as the Proprium. Let us see what is proprium. According to Allport, proprium is the highest in the personality structure which consists of all aspects of personality which bring about inward unity and consistency in the personality of the individual together in the proprium goverm the entire organisation of personality. The proprium contains within it dynamic and manifests itself in almost all aspects of human behaviour. Let us see how this Proprium develops. According to Aliport it develops through sevens stages and these stages are given below: 1) Sense of body 2) Self-identity 3) Self-esteem 4) Self-extension 5) ...
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Allport: Traits or Disposition

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Allport Traits Theory According to Allport traits constitutes the basic unit of individual personality traits as the predisposition to respond and react in the same or similar manner to stimuli in the environment. According to him, there are two types of traits (i) Common traits (ii) Personal traits or dispositions. Some of the important characteristics of traits are as given below: 1) Traits are not theoretical structures or constructs but are real and found within the individual. 2) Traits guide and direct behaviour and enable the individual to behave in a particular manner. 3) Traits are verified empirically. 4) Different traits are not absolutely independent of each other but have overlapping functions, 5) Stable traits can also change over time. i) Common traits We all are aware that persons belonging to a certain coun try or a community within a society behave similarly in a number of situations. They will hold the same view points a...
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THEORY OF HARRY STACK SULLIVAN

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HARRY STACK SULLIVAN Harry Stack-Sullivan focused both on social aspects of personality and cognitive representations. This moved him away from Freud's psychosexual development Sullivan, saw anxiety as existing only as a result of social interactions. He described techniques, much like defense mechanisms, that provide tools for people to use in order to reduce social anxiety. He developed a model regarding failures in interpersonal relationships as being largely responsible for mental illnesses. In his words, it is the "interactional," not the "intrapsychic, forces that must be studied in order to find the causes, and develop treatments for, even the most severe psychoses. This search for satisfaction via personal involvement with others led Sullivan to characterise loneliness as the most painful of human experiences. Selective Inattention is one such mechanism. According to Sullivan, mothers show their anxiety about child rearing to their children through...
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Erickson's theory of Psychosocial Development

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Erickson's Development Theory Erickson's theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Much like Sigmund Freud, Erikson believed thatpersonality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud's theory of psychosexual stages, Erikson's theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. One of the main elements of Erikson's psychosocial stage theory is the development of ego identity. Ego identity is the conscious sense of self that we develop through social interaction. According to Erikson, our ego identity is constantly changing due to new experience and information we acquire in our daily interactions with others in addition to ego identity, Erikson also believed that a sense of competence also motivates behaviours and actions. Each stage in Erikson's theory is concerned with becoming competent in an area of life. If the stage is handled well, the person will feel a sens...
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Psychosexual Stages : Sigmund Freud

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Do you know how many psychosexual stages of development and what is the result of there is a disturbance in these stage?? Different stages taking place at different age level have clear erogenous Jones the kind of experience and individual gets during each stage of development decides whether he will be fixated at the that stage or move on the next stage it is discussed in the following sections: Oral Phase oral stage is the first stage of psychosexual development it lasts from the birth of one year the focus of gratification during this stage is on the mouth and pleasure is a result of nursing but also of exploration of the surroundings. The Id is dominant at this stage since neither the ego nor the superego is fully formed. A child does not have a sense of self and all his actions are based on pleasure. However the ego is under formation during this stage. The formation of the ego is contributed by two factors. 1) the infant recognises that the body is di...
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"Sigmund Freud"

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Today we are learn about the great psychiatrist "Sigmund Freud" Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia on May 6,  1856. And died in London on September 23, 1939 as a young man he decided that he wanted to be a scientist. With this goal in mind he entered the medical school of the university Vienna in 1873, graduating 8 years later. Freud never intended to practice medicine but the scanty rewards of scientific work the limited opportunities for academic advancement for a Jew, and the needs of a growing family forced in the enter private practice . In spite of his practice, we found time for research and writing and he accomplishment as a medical investigator and him a solid reputation. He said, the personality is made up for three major systems: id, the ego and the superego. Although which of these provinces of the total personality has its own functions, properties, components, operating principle dynamisms and mechanism, the interact so closely with one another th...
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