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Different types ofPersonality

Traits

Group Presentation By:Amita Malhotra

Ankita Nagpal

Ayush Gupta

Esha Malhotra

Arvind Prem


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The resulting four emotionally stable traits of a nurturing personality

can be characterized as:

Agreeableness: It refers to how individuals relate with others and how considerate they

are of their feelings and opinions

Agreeable people see others as mostly honest and trustworthy; they are

straightforward and frank; willing to help out; yielding rather than

aggressive in conflict; modest and unpretentious; and caring, nurturing,and supportive.


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Extraversion

It is characterized as outgoing, gregarious, physically active, charming,

and socially dominant.

Extraverted individuals seek out excitement and are readily engaged in

new activities.

They tend to assume leadership roles, especially in leadership vacuums

when nobody else wants to take charge.


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Openness to New Experiences

People who are open to new experiences are flexible and broad-

minded.

They are creative, imaginative and intellectual.

They like to try new options, seek out variety, and find emotional

rewards in learning and developing new ideas.

They avoid situations that are highly structured, rigid, or controlled.


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Conscientiousness

Conscientious people are goal-oriented and get things done.

They are dependable, on-time, well-organized, deliberate, methodical,

focused, and efficient.

Since they are rule-oriented, they avoid disorder and impulsive

behavior.


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Neuroticism

It is a fundamental personality trait in the study of psychology.

It is an enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states.

Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely than the

average to experience such feelings as anxiety, anger, guilt, and

depressed mood.


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Types of personalities:

Healthy and Nurturing

Defective


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Who has a healthy and nurturing personality?

Individuals who

Have an attitude of support, stability, and acceptance of others

Seeks to sustain relationships by fostering feelings of respect and

courtesy, and they enjoy providing emotional support to others.

Have nurturing personality traits such as empathy, sensitivity, and

understanding.

Have a genuine sense of responsibility, and they feel satisfied withthemselves.


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A healthy and nurtured Manager will listen to positive commands in the rightmanner.

For Example:

Being Perfect:

A healthy nurturing personality will always try to improve itself but will never beobsessed with it.

Pleasing Everyone:

A healthy nurturing personality understands that is practically impossible toplease everyone but at the same time they try to maintain cordial relationswith everyone.

At instances they can say NO to people firmly but politely


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Hurrying Up:

A healthy nurturing personality manages its time well and take up one job

at a time.

They understand that there is no use of hurrying up as it leads tounnecessary tension and the quality of work also suffers.

Trying Hard:

This is about converting your efforts into tangible or intangible results.

A healthy and nurturing personality will go for realistic targets.


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Being Strong:

A healthy nurturing personality knows what emotions are to be

concealed and what are to be expressed.

Generally emotions should not be suppressed as they can lead topsychosomatic disorders.


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Defective personality individuals are emotionally unstable with respect to

the four positive traits:

Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness to newexperiences, and Extraversion.

We can label these people as follows:

Passive

This trait represents extreme lack of Extraversion.

Passive people would see confrontation and rejection as threats; they

do not stand up for their views.


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Headstrong

This trait represents extreme lack of Agreeableness

Headstrong people see loss of influence and control as threats and

handle them with confrontation

They lack interpersonal skills


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Rigid

This trait represents extreme lack of Openness

Rigid people see change, uncertainty, and disorder as a threat

Often they lack the skills to adapt to new situations

They handle perceived threats to predictability by adhering to rules and

structure

Distractible

This is the extreme lack of Conscientiousness

Distractible people lack the skills to get organized and disciplined. They

are threatened by excessive structure.


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A defective personality generally becomes so obsessed with drivers that

positive commands turns out to be negative commands for them. Thusthese drivers play the role ofstoppers also called injunctions.

For Example:

Being Perfect

A defective personality would be always a guilty conscious of being not

perfect.

The feelings can go to an extent that they feel themselves totallyworthless and useless.


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Hurrying Up

A defective personality always tries to finish all the work in the minimumtime and thus they set unrealistic goals.

In order to achieve these unrealistic targets they hurry up and start

many jobs simultaneously and end up in doing no job even up to bareminimum expectations and not even the stipulated time.

These factors may generate unnecessary anxiety in them

Pleasing Everyone:

A defective personality always feels dejected for not being able to

please everyone and continuously accuses itself.

The results could vary from that they start remaining aloof to a

quarreling nature.


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Being Strong:

A defective personality will never be intimate to anyone because of the

fear of showing their emotions.

There EQ being less theydont

know when to suppress their emotionsand when to express.

At times they could be too emotional and sometimes they may

suppress their emotions to an extent that it can lead to psychosomatic

disorders.


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Trying Hard:

This kind of attitude too is related with setting of unrealistic goals and

defective personality people try hard to achieve them and at the end of

the day feel dejected for not achieving them.

Sometimes this feeling grows to level that they feel committing suicide.

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