PERSONALITY

• Personality


  Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

  
• The sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with each other
• Determinants of Personality / Factors affecting personality

  • Heredity (genetic features)
  • Environment (Family background, religion or culture, school background, university background)
  • Situation (the way you behave in different situation)

  
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator

  A personality test that covers four characteristics and classifies people into 16 personality types

  
• Extraverted (E) vs. Introverted (I)E:

  
  

  EXTRAVERTED ; These people have Direct energy outward towards people and things, they are after thinkers

  
  

  INTROVERTED ; Direct energy inward towards ideas and concepts, They are fore thinkers
• Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)

  
  

  1. Thinking : Focus on logic, truth and principles, brief and provide solutions.
  2. Feeling ; Focus on human values and needs, friendly and personal, provide solutions considering others.
• Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N)

  • S: Focus on experience, details, reality and practicality, pay attention to details

  1. Focus on possibilities, big picture, more creative
• Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)


  • J: Organized and purposeful, focus on completing tasks and making decisions quickly

  1. Curious, flexible, adoptable, focus on starting tasks and postpone decisions
• The 16 types of personalities based on the above characteristics

  
• Conscientiousness


  • The degree of reliability,
  • High conscientiousness people are responsible, organized, and dependable,
  • low is distracted and disorganized.
• Emotional Stability


  • The person's ability to withstand stress.
  • Emo.Stab. High නම් එයාලා calm and confident.
  • ES low නම් nervous, depressed and anxious
• Extraversion


  • The comfort level with relationships
  • extroverts are outgoing, active, social and interactive.
  • introverts are quiet and shy.
• Openness to experience


  • The number of interests and innovative mindset that a person has.
  • High are creative, curious and artistically sensitive.
  • low find comfort in familiarity.
• Agreeableness


  • The level individuals change their opinion based on others
  • high are cooperative, warm and trusting
  • low are disagreeing and cold
• Other Personality Traits


  • Machiavellianism
  • Narcissism
  • Psychopathy
  • Core self evaluation
  • Self monitoring
  • Proactive personality

  
• Machiavellianism


  If they want something to be achieved , they will achieve it whatever happens to the others
• Narcissism


  They think that everything belongs to them
• Psychopathy


  Lack of concern for others

  lack of guilt
• Core self evaluation


  They know about themselves and know their abilities.

  Individuals aware about their capabilities and competencies and their value as a person.

  
• Self monitoring


  Ability to adjust his or her behavior to external stimuli factors.

  
• Proactive personality


  People will identify opportunities

  show initiatives

  Take action and will wait until meaningful change occurs
• Person Job Fit


  The effort to match job requirements with personality characteristics
• Person Organization Fit


  People are attracted to and are selected by organizations that match their values, and they leave organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
• The Big Five personality model

  1. Conscientiousness
  2. Emotional stability
  3. Openness to experience
  4. Extraversion
  5. Agreeableness