A Case Summary for Personality Psychology
A Case Summary for Personality Psychology
James Cook University
A Case Summary for Personality Psychology
Biography
Sam Smith is a typical 21-year-old adult who enjoys life and laughs at the simplest things. Sam is outgoing, cheerful, friendly and is always busy. He works at a Rental Property agency store where he enjoys learning and meeting new people. His interests involve sports, travelling, and inputting his vision into theatre. Sam’s experiences on diversity among personalities, cultures and atmospheres of the world have enabled him to connect with people on a greater, more personal level. Sam is studying psychology and aspires to work in a government agency to assist in the crime against drugs. Sam’s ideal self is to live more orderly, so he can balance work, family, friends and university life. In doing so, Sam also wishes to attain a stronger strive for achievement. Due to his inability to find his equilibrium, he has reflected on his life and feels frustrated. While Sam concentrates on his university commitments, it has resulted to his inability to maintain his previously good social life. This has made him feel as if he has lost a sense of himself, and a major component of his personality. Sam is perplexed as to why this is occurring.
Assessment Tools
Personality assessment entails the use of well-designed questionnaires or other standardized instruments, which are deliberated to tell different facets of a person’s traits or psychological attributes (McAdams, 2009). Diverse personality assessment tools have been developed, which are all designed to elucidate an individual’s psychological makeup including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator (MMDI) test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, Jung personality test, as well as the International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO (IPIP-NEO) test (Bernstein & Clarke-Stewart, 2008). In this
James Cook University
A Case Summary for Personality Psychology
Biography
Sam Smith is a typical 21-year-old adult who enjoys life and laughs at the simplest things. Sam is outgoing, cheerful, friendly and is always busy. He works at a Rental Property agency store where he enjoys learning and meeting new people. His interests involve sports, travelling, and inputting his vision into theatre. Sam’s experiences on diversity among personalities, cultures and atmospheres of the world have enabled him to connect with people on a greater, more personal level. Sam is studying psychology and aspires to work in a government agency to assist in the crime against drugs. Sam’s ideal self is to live more orderly, so he can balance work, family, friends and university life. In doing so, Sam also wishes to attain a stronger strive for achievement. Due to his inability to find his equilibrium, he has reflected on his life and feels frustrated. While Sam concentrates on his university commitments, it has resulted to his inability to maintain his previously good social life. This has made him feel as if he has lost a sense of himself, and a major component of his personality. Sam is perplexed as to why this is occurring.
Assessment Tools
Personality assessment entails the use of well-designed questionnaires or other standardized instruments, which are deliberated to tell different facets of a person’s traits or psychological attributes (McAdams, 2009). Diverse personality assessment tools have been developed, which are all designed to elucidate an individual’s psychological makeup including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator (MMDI) test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, Jung personality test, as well as the International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO (IPIP-NEO) test (Bernstein & Clarke-Stewart, 2008). In this
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