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Personality 
 

Personality is one of the most talked about topics in popular psychology. How real someone's personality actually is isn't all that straightforward! But in everday language we encouter phrases such as 'personality traits', 'personality types', 'personality disorders', and we are regularly invited to carry out 'personality tests' or 'personality quizzes' in order to discover our true personality!
 
Let's have a look below at some of these terms and what they mean. . . . . 

Personality Types

Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals. Personality types can be distinguished from personality traits, which come in different levels or degrees. According to type theories, for example, introverts and extraverts are two fundamentally different categories of people.

 

Personality types are commonly split ito two types - Type A Personality, and Type B Personality. According to this theory, impatient, hostile people are classified as Type A, whereas calm, laid back individuals are designated as Type B. Find out what you are really like with some fun personality tests here! 

 

Carl Jung described 16 personality types, split into four main temperaments:

 

Protectors

  • Overseer
  • Supporter
  • Examiner
  • Defender

Creators

  • Persuader
  • Entertainer
  • Craftsmen
  • Artist

Intellectuals

  • Originator
  • Chief
  • Strategist
  • Engineer

Visionaries

  • Mentor
  • Advocate
  • Confidant
  • Dreamer

 

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Personality traits

According to trait theories, introversion and extraversion are part of a continuous dimension, with many people somewhere in the middle. While typologies of all sorts have existed throughout time the most influential idea of psychological types originated in the theoretical work of Carl Jung, published as Psychological Types in 1921.

 

Personality Traits are generally talked about in five categories: (OCEAN, or CANOE if rearranged).  Openness (sometimes referred to as Intellect), Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (sometimes referred to as Emotional Stability).