PSY 250 University of Phoenix Week 3 Psychology of Personality Questions Hello. I was hoping that you would be able to assist me with this week’s assignmen

PSY 250 University of Phoenix Week 3 Psychology of Personality Questions Hello. I was hoping that you would be able to assist me with this week’s assignment as it is a worksheet. I have already taken the personality test and placed a screenshot of it onto the worksheet, which will make it easier. I have attached my personality traits results, the assignment and requirement sheet, the worksheet, and the chapters should you need them. Thank you PSY/250 v10
Career Dispositions Self-Inventory
Worksheet
Introduction
Refer to Chapter 13 in your textbook, Theories of Personality, for this assignment.
McCrae and Costa (Feist et al., 2018) theorized that personality traits can be categorized by five major
factors:
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
Like Allport, they claim that individuals will score at a specific point along a continuum for each of the five
factors. For example, a high score in extraversion may reflect that someone is outgoing, or a low score
may reflect that a person is reserved. Most people will score somewhere in the middle, with only a few
who score at either of the extremes.
Combined, these factors can give us insight into recognizing and accepting our own dispositional traits as
well as those of others. Such an understanding of personality can help us to self-reflect, predict
behaviors, and demonstrate empathy in ways that can improve our relationships with colleagues in
diverse workplace environments.
Part I: Trait Theories
Explain how dispositional trait theories (Allport, McCrae and Costa) are different from biological trait
theories (Eysenck and Buss) in 125–175 words.
Part II: Big Five Personality Test
Take the Big Five Personality Test to obtain a free basic report of your personality traits. The report will
display a graph that looks like this:
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Example Graph of Test Results
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Provide your results below using one of the following methods:
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Type your results as a percentage for each trait
Create a chart or graph of your percentages
Take a screenshot of the graph of your results and paste it into this document
Part III: Personality Trait Scores
Discuss each dimension of your personality based on the Big Five Personality Test report of your trait
scores in 175–225 total words.
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1. Summarize each dimension of your personality in 2–4 sentences:
a. Openness:
b. Conscientiousness:
c.
Extraversion:
d. Agreeableness:
e. Neuroticism:
2. Describe some of your behaviors that are reflected in your score for each dimension.
3. How accurate do you think the Big Five Personality Test is in its description of your personality?
Explain your answer.
Part IV: Career Trait Dispositions
Every career requires a different set of skills and aptitudes. While it is important to know the skills required
to succeed at a job, it is equally important to know the types of personalities that would best match that
career.
Use your test results and apply your knowledge of dispositional and biological personality trait theories to
respond to the following examples in 200–300 total words:
1. You have been invited to interview for a position as a salesperson in a retail store. Explain how well
you would fit this role by describing your personality to the hiring manager.
2. You are considering a position as a bookkeeper for a small accounting firm. How well would your
personality fare in this environment? Include at least one biological factor in your explanation.
3. National Geographic is looking for a photographer. Which personality dimensions would require high
scores to be successful in this position?
4. Based on the results of the Big Five Personality Test, what might be the ideal career for your
personality? Why?
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References
Feist, J., Feist, G. J., & Roberts, T. (2018). Theories of personality (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
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PSY/250: Psychology Of Personality
Wk 3 – Career Dispositions Self-Inventory
Worksheet
Materials
Textbook
Feist, J., Feist, G.J., & Roberts, T. (2018). Theories of personality (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill
Education.
Assignment Content
Take the Big Five Personality Test to obtain a free basic report of your personality traits.
You will use the results of this test in this assignment. (I have already completed the
test.)
Complete the Career Dispositions Self-Inventory Worksheet. Please pay attention to the
required word count in each section. If you use references beyond your textbook, please
remember to cite them in the body of the work and list them as a reference at the end of the
worksheet, in keeping with APA.
There is also a grading rubric for your use. Please let me know if you have any questions or
need additional information.
Submit your assignment.
Openness
Openness describes a person’s tendency to think in abstract, complex ways. High scorers tend
to be creative, adventurous, and intellectual. They enjoy playing with ideas and discovering novel
experiences. Low scorers tend to be practical, conventional, and focused on the concrete. They
tend to avoid the unknown and follow traditional ways.
Openness is strongly related to a person’s interest in art and culture. People who are high in
openness tend to enjoy the arts and seek out unusual, complex forms of self-expression. People
who are low in openness are often suspicious of the arts and prefer to focus on more practical
pursuits.
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness describes a person’s ability to exercise self -discipline and control in order to
pursue their goals. High scorers are organized and determined, and are able to forego immediate
gratification for the sake of long-term achievement. Low scorers are impulsive and easily
sidetracked.
The concept of Conscientiousness focuses on a dilemma we all face: shall I do what feels good
now, or instead do what is less fun but will pay off in the future? Some people are more likely to
choose fun in the moment, and thus are low in Conscientiousness. Others are more likely to work
doggedly toward their goals, and thus are high in this trait.
Extraversion
Extraversion describes a person’s inclination to seek stimulation from the outside world,
especially in the form of attention from other people. Extraverts engage actively with others to
earn friendship, admiration, power, status, excitement, and romance. Introverts, on the other
hand, conserve their energy, and do not work as hard to earn these social rewards.
Extraversion seems to be related to the emotional payoff that a person gets from a chieving a
goal. While everyone experiences victories in life, it seems that extroverts are especially thrilled
by these victories, especially when they earn the attention of others. Getting a promotion, finding
a new romance, or winning an award are all l ikely to bring an extrovert great joy. In contrast,
introverts do not experience as much of a “high” from social achievements. They tend to be more
content with simple, quiet lives, and rarely seek attention from others.
Agreeableness
Agreeableness describes a person’s tendency to put others’ needs ahead of their own, and to
cooperate rather than compete with others. People who are high in Agreeableness experience a
great deal of empathy and tend to get pleasure out of serving and taking care of others. The y are
usually trusting and forgiving.
People who are low in Agreeableness tend to experience less empathy and put their own
concerns ahead of others. Low scorers are often described as hostile, competitive, and
antagonistic. They tend to have more conflict ual relationships and often fall out with people.
Neuroticism
Neuroticism describes a person’s tendency to experience negative emotions, including fear,
sadness, anxiety, guilt, and shame. While everyone experiences these emotions from time to
time, some people are more prone to them than others.
This trait can be thought of as an alarm system. People experience negative emotions as a sign
that something is wrong in the world. You may be in danger, so you feel fear. Or you may have
done something morally wrong, so you feel guilty. However, not everyone has the same reaction
to a given situation. High Neuroticism scorers are more likely to react to a situation with fear,
anger, sadness, and the like. Low Neuroticism scorers are more likely to brush off their
misfortune and move on.
Your Traits in Depth
Now, we’ll take a detailed look at each of your scores and how they compare with average
scores for the population. We’ll see what your scores mean for your individual experiences, and
how the latest scientific research can help you to understand what your traits really mean.
Your Openness Score in Depth
Openness describes an individual’s tendency to think in complex, abstract ways. People who are
high in Openness are abstract thinkers, while people who are low in Openness are concrete
thinkers.
As a person high in Openness, you are more able than the average person to connect seemingly
unrelated concepts. This makes you more creative and imaginative than average, and more likely
to appreciate unusual ideas.
Because you are high in Openness, you are more likely to appreciate art, music, and various
cultural activities. You may notice that you are more interested in such things than the average
person. Your mind is better able to process loosely connecte d ideas, and so you are more apt to
appreciate, say, a sculpture of an elephant built out of forks. While many people would find such
a thing bizarre, you enjoy considering the meaning of things and working to understand how
seemingly unrelated ideas might be connected.
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Your Personality Patterns
Your personality traits interact to create unique patterns of thought and behavior. In this section,
you’ll learn how your traits work together to drive the way you interact with the world.
To describe your personality patterns, we use a circular graph called a circumplex. The
circumplex is used by psychologists to illustrate how two traits intersect to create more complex
patterns of thought and behavior. Each circumplex has four sections, with each section
describing a typical pattern. The area of each section shows how well that pattern describes you.
A larger area indicates a better fit for that pattern.
Some circumplex graphs will show a clear preference for one pattern. Others will show a more
even spread over two or even three patterns. Where you have nearly equal scores for two or
more patterns, you can expect that both patterns may describe you equally well.
Core Pattern
This circumplex describes the essential role you take on in approaching the world. This role is a
reflection of your core values and motivations, as well as the way you think about things.
EMPATHIC IDEALIST
Uses insight and creativity to help others. Thinks about how the world could be a better and more
beautiful place.
PRACTICAL CARETAKER
Helps other people in practical, everyday ways. Uses established institutions to maintain stability
and security.
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ANALYTICAL THINKER
Solves logical problems with rational, complex analysis. Thinks about innovative ways to improve
systems.
LOGICAL MECHANIC
Ensures accuracy and efficiency in logical systems. Uses proven methods to accomplish real world goals.
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Your Traits in Action
Now we’ll look at how your personality traits express themselves in all areas of life, from your
daily routine to your relationships and your work life. Each section covers one key area and
explains how your individual traits influence your experien ces in this aspect of life.
Your Inner Life
Your personality governs the most fundamental things about you, including how you think, what
you value, and what motivates you. This section explores how your traits drive your internal life.
How does your mind work?
You have a highly creative and imaginative way of thinking and you often see connections that
others do not. You are uninterested in the dull facts of a situation, preferring instead to interpret
its meaning and implications. You have unusual id eas and sometimes perceive things that other
people are not aware of. You are easily absorbed by fantasy and enjoy envisioning alternate
realities as well as possibilities for the future.
You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the needs and experie nces of others. As a highly
empathetic person, you feel others’ emotions almost as strongly as your own, and as such, the
experiences of others occupy an important place in your mind. Your thoughts often revolve
around how you might be more helpful to others, or how you can better understand what they are
going through.
You are preoccupied with goal-setting and achievement and most of your thoughts revolve
around planning and completing tasks. You are a structured, orderly thinker, and rarely waste
time on unproductive daydreaming.
What do you value?
You are a highly sympathetic and altruistic person who values kindness and compassion above
all else. You feel it is crucial to care for others and work to make the world a better place. You
rarely do anything that does not have a payoff in kindness or caring. You are unconcerned with
selfish goals, and instead preoccupy yourself with the needs of others.
You have a genuine love of ideas, and value originality, creativity, and imagination. It is
important to you to have consistent opportunities to learn new things and improve your mind.
You value intellectual challenge, depth of thought, and insight. Because of your interest in
enlightenment and novel ideas, you place great value on artistic and cultural endeavors . You
believe that the improvement of the mind is an important and worthy goal.
Chapter 12
The second form of guilt stems from our inability to perceive accurately the world of others
(Mitwelt). We can see other people only through our own eyes and can never perfectly judge the
needs of these other people. Thus, we do violence to their true identity. Because we cannot
unerringly anticipate the needs of others, we feel inadequate in our relations with them. This then
leads to a pervasive condition of guilt, which is experienced by all of us to some extent. May
(1958a) wrote that “this is not a question of moral failure . . . it is an inescapable result of the fact
that each of us is a separate individuality and has no choice but to look at the world through [our]
own eyes” (p. 54).
The third form of ontological guilt is associated with our denial of our own potentialities or
with our failure to fulfill them. In other words, this guilt is grounded in our relationship with self
(Eigenwelt). Again, this form of guilt is universal, because none of us can completely fulfill all
our potentials. This third type of guilt is reminiscent of Maslow’s concept of the Jonah
complex, or the fear of being or doing one’s best (see Chapter 9).
Like anxiety, ontological guilt can have either a positive or a negative effect on personality.
We can use this guilt to develop a healthy sense of humility, to improve our relations with others,
and to creatively use our potentialities. However, when we refuse to accept ontological guilt, it
becomes neurotic or morbid. Neurotic guilt, like neurotic anxiety, leads to nonproductive or
neurotic symptoms such as sexual impotence, depression, cruelty to others, or inability to make a
choice.
Intentionality
The ability to make a choice implies some underlying structure upon which that choice is made.
The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the
future is called intentionality (May, 1969b). Without intentionality, people could neither choose
nor act on their choice. Action implies intentionality, just as intentionality implies action; the two
are inseparable.
May used the term “intentionality” to bridge the gap between subject and object.
Intentionality is “the structure of meaning which makes it possible for us, subjects that we are, to
see and understand the outside world, objective that it is. In intentionality, the dichotomy
between subject and object is partially overcome” (May, 1969b, p. 225).
To illustrate how intentionality partially bridges the gap between subject and object, May
(1969b) used a simple example of a man (the subject) seated at his desk observing a piece of
paper (the object). The man can write on the paper, fold it into a paper airplane for his grandson,
or sketch a picture on it. In all three instances, the subject (man) and object (paper) are identical,
but the man’s actions depend on his intentions and on the meaning he gives to his experience.
That meaning is a function of both himself (subject) and his environment (object).
Intentionality is sometimes unconscious. For example, when Philip felt a duty to take care of
Nicole despite her unpredictable and “crazy” behavior, he did not see that his actions were in
some way connected to his early experiences with his unpredictable mother and his “crazy”
sister. He was trapped in his unconscious belief that unpredictable and “crazy” women must be
cared for, and this intentionality made it impossible for him to discover new ways of relating to
Nicole.Page 336
Care, Love, and Will
Philip had a history of taking care of others, especially women. He had given Nicole a “job” with
his company that permitted her to work at home and earn enough money to live on. In addition,
after she ended her affair with Craig and gave up her “crazy” plan to move across the country,
Philip gave her several thousand dollars. He previously had felt a duty to take care of his two
wives and, before that, his mother and sister.
In spite of Philip’s pattern of taking care of women, he never really learned to care for them.
To care for someone means to recognize that person as a fellow human being, to identify with
that person’s pain or joy, guilt or pity. Care is an active process, the opposite of apathy. “Care is
a state in which something does matter” (May, 1969b, p. 289).
Care is not the same as love, but it is the source of love. To love means to care, to recognize
the essential humanity of the other person, to have an active regard for that person’s
development. May (1953) defined love as a “delight in the presence of the other person and an
affirming of [that person’s] value and development as much as one’s own” (p. 206). Without
care there can be no love—only empty sentimentality or transient sexual arousal. Care is also the
source of will.
May (1969b) called will “the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain
direction or toward a certain goal may take place” (p. 218). He distinguished between will and
wish, saying that
“will” requires self-consciousness; “wish” does not. “Will” implies some possibility of either/or
choice; “wish” does not. “Wish” gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child’s play,
the freshness, and the richness to “will.” “Will” gives the self-direction, the maturity to “wish.”
“Will” protects “wish,” permits it to continue without running risks which are too great. (p. 218)
Union of Love and Will
Modern society, May (1969b) claimed, is suffering from an unhealthy division of love and will.
Love has become associated with sensual love or sex, whereas will has come to mean a dogged
determination or will power. Neither concept captures the true meaning of these two terms.
When love is seen as sex, it becomes temporary and lacking in commitment; there is no will, but
only wish. When will is seen as will power, it becomes self-serving and lacking in passion; there
is no care, but only manipulation.
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