1. Personality
Intro to Wellness

2. What is personality?
The particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual.
Refers to dispositions in the person that help to determine his behavior and that differ from one person to another.

3. Why is it important to know about your personality?
It can help you academically
It can help identify your strengths & weaknesses
It can help you develop better relationships by becoming more understanding and accepting of people who are different from you
It can help choose a major and a career choice

4. Measuring Personality
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Jung Typology
The Big Five Personality Traits

5. Carl Jung Typology
Jung concluded that differences in behavior result from people’s inborn tendencies to use their minds in different ways.
As people act on these tendencies, the develop patterns of behavior.

6. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Created during World War II to help women entering the workforce for the first time.
A questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

7. Preferences
The MBTI & Jung’s Typology report preferences on four dichotomies, each consisting of two opposite poles.
What is a preference?
Sign your name as you normally do.
Sign your name with your opposite hand.

8. Four Dichotomies Where do you prefer to focus your attention?
Where do you get your energy?
How do you prefer to take in information?
How do you make decisions?
How do you prefer to get things decided?

9. Indicators Extroverted (E) External World (I) Introverted
Internal World
Sensing (S)
Details
(N) Intuition
Big Picture
Thinking (T)
Logic
(F) Feeling
Emotion
Judging (J)
Organized
(P) Perceiving
Improvise

10. The Big Five Personality Traits
Unlike MBTI, the Big 5 is not based on anyone’s theory of behavior
Began in 1936, 18,000 words from the English dictionary were identified that could be used to distinguish a person’s behavior
Over time and many different studies, it was narrowed down to FIVE

11. The Big Five Personality Traits
Extroversion – Level of sociability & enthusiasm
Conscientiousness – Level of organization & work ethic
Agreeableness- Level of friendliness & kindness
Neuroticism- Level of calmness & tranquility
Openness – Level of creativity & curiosity

12. The Big Five Personality Traits in Movies

13. What is your personality?