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Stress and Personality. How does your personality affect your response to stress?. Major Points. Background from the field of Psychology Personality Traits/Types According to stress response Typology systems. Psychology of Personality: What do they have to say???. Freud Jung Kubler-Ross
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Major Points • Background from the field of Psychology • Personality Traits/Types • According to stress response • Typology systems
Psychology of Personality:What do they have to say??? • Freud • Jung • Kubler-Ross • Frankl • Maslow
Freud • Stress comes from the tension between your id (impulses) and the superego (society). This is controlled by the ego (identity). • You try to use defense mechanisms to protect your ego.
Jung Your personality arises through individuation. Stress may result from conflicts between your conscious and unconscious.
Kubler-Ross The stages of handling unmet expectations are similar to the stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance.
Frankl Stress can arise from the failure to make meaning out of life and suffering.
Maslow Look to my hierarchy of Needs. Stress occurs when Lower level needs are not Met, which keeps the person From reaching higher levels. Self-actualization Self-Esteem Belonging and Love Safety Physiological needs
Type A Behaviors/Traits • Rushed lifestyle • Predictor of heart disease • Characteristics • Type A and our society • Hostility is the key factor
Other-Focused Traits/Behaviors • Self-worth comes from others depending on them • Characteristics • Motivation
Helpless-Hopeless Behaviors • Learned helplessness • Locus of control
Hardy Personality • Commitment • Control • Challenge
Sensation Seekers • Type R • Calculated risks
Self-Esteem and Personality • Low self-esteem = stress-prone • High self-esteem=stress resistant • Self-Assessments in book (p. 125-127) • Self-Value
Personality Typology • Jung Myers-Briggs Typology Inventory (MBTI) • Preferences
Extraversion External focus Energy from people Intraversion Internal focus Time alone Extraversion-Intraversion
Sensing Rely on senses Practical Deal with facts Intuition Dreamers Experience Deal with ideas Sensing-Intuition
Thinking Logical Analytical Think through decisions Feeling Emotional Decisions based on values Thinking-Feeling
Judging Organization and order Work ahead of schedule Perception Spontaneous Work best at the last minute Judging-Perception
Preferences • Extroversion • Introversion • Intuition • Sensing • Thinking • Feeling • Judging • Perceiving
Personality Test Activity • Answer the following questions: • What are some of the stressors that each of your personality types could be prone to? • What stressors could arise when two people with your personality types work together or are in relationships (friendships, romance, parents, etc.) with one another? • What would be the strengths of this relationship? • What is some common ground between your personality types? • How might each person understand the other’s response to stress? • What could each person learn from the other?