Personality and Wellbeing

Question 1

what is personality?

Answer 1

consists of distinctive dynamic patterns of behaviour, thoughts, and emotions that are relatively stable to situations

Question 2

what do ideas about personality often have?

Answer 2

western bias

Question 3

cultural-comparative approach

Answer 3

etic approach

tests western ideas about personality in other cultures to generalise concepts

Question 4

indigenous approach

Answer 4

emic approach

develops new personality assessments that focus on constructs relevant to the culture being studied

Question 5

myers-briggs personality inventory

Answer 5

consists of 16 personality types with 4 different characteristics

• extraversion-introversion
• sensing-intuition
• thinking-feeling
• judging-perceiving

Question 6

what did friedman and rosenman observe?

Answer 6

differences in response to stress and found a continuum of three personalities

Question 7

type A

Answer 7

competitive, self-critical, and prone to stress related illnesses

Question 8

type B

Answer 8

relaxed, easy-going, and imaginative

Question 9

type C

Answer 9

sensitive to emotions and needs, and struggles to manage pressure on time

Question 10

eysenck three factor model

Answer 10

believes temperament is genetic and factor analysis measures three underlying traits

• extraversion-introversion
• stability-neuroticism
• self-control-psychoticism

Question 11

what does the big five model believe?

Answer 11

there are five personality traits on a continuum

• openness
• conscientiousness
• extraversion
• agreeableness
• neuroticism

Question 12

projective measures

Answer 12

• rorschach test
• thematic apperception test

Question 13

what does the rorschach test use?

Answer 13

ten inkblot designs and prompts patients to interpret the images, to delve into their perceptions

Question 14

what does the thematic apperception test use?

Answer 14

ambiguous drawings and asks patients to tell a story to reveal unconscious traits and attitudes

Question 15

how does the thematic apperception test measure patients?

Answer 15

SCORS test on eight likert scales

• complexity of representations
• affective quality of representations
• emotional investment in relationships
• emotional investment in values and moral standards
• understanding of social causality
• experience and management of aggressive impulses
• self-esteem
• identity and coherence of self

Question 16

objective measures

Answer 16

• EPQ-R
• Neo Pi-R

Question 17

what is EPQ-R based on?

Answer 17

eysneck three factor model, and uses 100 yes-no questions to measure the three underlying traits

Question 18

what is Neo Pi-R based on?

Answer 18

big five model, and is suitable for clinical and non-clinical samples

Question 19

what did myers-briggs find about predictions of wellbeing?

Answer 19

ENFPs and extroverts reported higher levels of workplace wellbeing

Question 20

what did the eysenck three factor model find significant relationships between?

Answer 20

positive- psychological distress and neuroticism
negative- psychological distress and extraversion

no significant relationship between psychoticism and psychological distress

Question 21

what did the five factor model find affected job satisfaction?

Answer 21

extraversion

Question 22

what did the five factor model find affected subjective wellbeing?

Answer 22

extraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism