Personality characteristics
Think of six personality characteristics that you have. If it is challenging to come up with six personality traits of your own – imagine: what will your parents, your best friends, and your frenemies, say about you? Be specific in your traits: not ‘nice’ but ‘welcoming’, ‘patient’, or ‘smile at others. Not ‘motivated’, but ‘committed to’ s.th. (a specific practice, effort), ‘persistent’ in s.th. (nutrition, college homework, etc.). Not ‘lazy’, but ‘generally low energy level’, ‘indifferent to possibilities’. Not ‘funny’, but ‘ready to laugh’, finding humor in negative events, etc. Do read chapter 10, in-depth, and show your discerning, differentiating, discriminating, knowing what it is and what it isn’t a characteristic in your exploration.
- List your six personality characteristics: ______
- From the Freudian perspective -textbook Section 1 Psychodynamic Perpsectives- how do defense mechanisms show up (manifest themselves) in your personality?
- From the Trait perspective -textbook Section 3 Trait Perspective,: Traits, Mood, and Subjective Well-Being – what characteristics tie in with your subjective well-being?
