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Psychology: Self-Assessment on Personality Type

Psychology: Self-Assessment on Personality Type


Introduction

Self-assessment is defined as the process of collecting information about oneself in order to make a clear evaluation about various self as well as to synchronize the information to the development and modification of various life-related decisions.

I have been under lots of pressure recently from family's infirmity combined with pecuniary complications and, certainly, final exams and large essays for classes. These are the higher levels of stress that I have experienced and it was interesting to see them lined out with 'scoring' type levels. Stress for me is on a continuous and steady level. There are always more stresses when dealing with college and having additional life factors. I learned that on the social-desirability scale, I am not entirely socially-oriented. This is probably exasperated by my emotional (rather than physical) stress that is constant. I don't always say what I think, but I do try to be honest and not placating or overly polite. I know that I have fairly decent confidence, although I have given up on a few projects I do not think I will fail automatically, and constantly try to do my best. In fact, that is probably why I am under so much stress. I try to get the best scores, study the hardest, and probably do take on too many projects at one time.


The most surprising thing to me

The most surprising results for me came from the expectancy for success scale. First, I don't think that success is something that can be scaled or predetermined based on someone's answers. I find it almost discouraging to call a personality test an "Expectancy for Success" because this places an automatic pressure on the participant to be successful in the test, creating an almost ad-hoc fallacy. That discouragement aside, I feel that I am a success, I am attending school and working very hard and do not feel that a personality test particularly reflects that. My scores in this particular test were fair to middle, and that does not encompass me as a person. I am not a middle ground person in my own view; I try my best and expect that I will be a successful person. I find here that the questions are almost misleading, am I a success because of my situations or in spite of them? Either way, it seems oddly worded, and I was fairly displeased with the statements. I may not always succeed, but I will always try.


Strengths and Weaknesses

The strengths I am more aware of because of this project are my responses to the "Life Orientation Test". I think this test helped me, because it gave me a stronger self-appraisal and self-esteem school of thought than I previously had. Realising that I am in control of my own situations has always been my strength. This is founded on the fact that, while I do not expect anything bad to really happen to me, I also do not expect that they will not happen, and therefore I believe in addressing each situation head-on. I do this by seeing the 'silver lining' and examining my locus of control, which brings me to my weaknesses.

I think I believe that more things are within my locus of control than really are within my ability to control. For example, I can not control if I get a cold. I eat right, exercise, and try to get enough sleep. I take my vitamins. But, if the virus comes into contact with my body, I can still get a cold. I have really reduced my chances of catching a cold. Getting a good grade—again, relative to my personal level of stress - is something I only think I can control. I can work hard, study with hard convictions, and rely on my interpretation of the facts as well as my cognitive ability to retain those facts to take the test. But, in the end, is that situation really within my control? My response to the situation is certainly within my control, but I think that my true weakness lies in distinguishing between the actual situation (taking a test) and my response (studying, assignments) as being within my control. I do not have the ability to know each question on each test; I do not think anyone really has that ability. But I do have the ability to rely on my learning skills to respond to the test, and I need to teach myself that my control is only within that spectrum of studying. Therefore, I need to learn that a bad grade does not define me. It only defines the situation.


The new things in my life

This project emphasizes on the strongest part of my personality characteristics, entailing the continuous stimulation by the new objects, persons and events, which may ensure and guide me about the choosing of preferred career. I want to work on this locus of control thing. I want to understand what is within my control, and what situations are out of my control. I am not the type of person that relies on others, nor am I the type of person that thinks the world is balanced against me. I believe there are situations that require responses, whether it is stress or happiness or something else. But these situations I am experiencing, exams, family illness, and the financial strain, seem to be continuously outside of my control. However, the weakest content focuses on my reluctant attitude towards the monotonous and conventional work pattern – which may sometimes implicate the depression or frustration related to the availability and engagement of the work, making sometimes numb and not active participation into the work accompanied by lacking priorities. Therefore, I would like to use the information I learned about me to begin to focus on what is within, and what is without, my ability to control in my education and personal life.

Posted by: Andrew Blanks

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