Essays on Introversion

1. Summarize Journal Articles The article “Florence Nightingale: Her Personality Type” by Dossey (2010) examines the famous nurse Florence Nightingale according to her personality type. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Dossey determines that Nightingale was an IITJ (introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging) personality. The author worked from a collection of Nightingale’s own written work and her letters, as well as her history. Dossey breaks Nightingale’s personality down into these four factors, using her life and work as a template to explain those personality traits. For instance, Nightingale is determined to be introverted due to her desire to be alone in ...

The Main Features of Introverts' behavior in the social environment

As is known, introversion is one of the most common categories or indicators to measure personality traits. Introverts are people whose personality traits are very different from those of other people, who can also be called extroverts. Introverts tend to accumulate their energy and direct it to their inner world, while extroverts waste their energy on the interaction with the outside world. If an extrovert needs a constant dialogue with the people, an introvert can successfully do without it. An introvert is capable of minimal contact, which is also necessary, but it happens rarely and only in the companies ...

Locus of Control Scale

The Instrument The Locus of Control Scale was originally designed by Rotter in 1966. It is used to determine on what people think affects specific outcomes of their actions and life in general. People with an internal focus of control believe that they are able t influence the outcome of their actions, whereas people with an external locus of control believe more in luck and fate rather than themselves (Lefcourt, 1982).

My Score

The score I received was 10 points out of the possible 23. Having achieved a score that is in between the external and internal influence, it is obvious ...

The character of Hamlet, Danish prince in a Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name, is one of the most analyzed characters in a literature. Important part of his personality are his conflicts, inner and outer. The time passes by while he is occupied by his conflicts; that is one of the reasons for delaying the main task he gave to himself – the vengeance for his father’s death. Here we will talk about Hamlet’s introversion and alleged madness which are the parts of his inward conflict and about his attitude towards women and experience of a world ...

Introduction

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of several instruments that will investigate the personalities in people and assess them and give results that are easy to remember (in this case, the result is a four letter designation that lists preferences, or styles, in descending order). There are eight of these preferences, listed as pairs of opposites: Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I), Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). Since one of each of contrasting tendencies will be listed, that results in 16 possibilities to describe the person's personality. It is ...

Jung Typology Score ENJT

The Jung typology score is humane metric that explains different personality type. Today, most recruiters use different types of humane metric in their selection process. Some use it to know which candidates would fit into a position in question especially when they consider hiring two or more candidates for similar positions within the same departments. The Jung Typology Score yields 16 different combinations (personality types) in four dichotomies and each personality type can be assigned a four letter acronym of corresponding combination of preferences.

Extravert (12%):

Extravert (12%) means I have a slight preference of extraversion over introversion. Just like most ...

“A Rose for Emily” is a 1930 short story by American author William Faulkner. The story centers on the female protagonist character called Emily Grierson. Emily’s character is the subject of this analysis. Emily Grierson is at the center of the story. She is a loner who lives a very solitary life. Her life moves from being a vibrant and young girl in her earlier years to a secretive and religious old woman who spends most of her time at a monastery. The death of her father leaves her devastated and many people in her hometown pity her ...

The Big Five test is a model that allows people explore the most important aspects of any individual`s personality. In the basis of this test there is an idea that any personality is characterized by the individual differences in adaptation to the social environment, taking into account the biological properties of the individual, of course. According to the Big Five test`s model, there are five common and relatively independent features in the human personality. These are extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to new experience (intellect with imagination). This essay is a reflection paper, which was ...