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What a TRIP! It's pretty close.
Posted on: 10/20/2007
Self-Confidence,
or the degree to which a person feels comfortable with him or herself.
People that are high in self-confidence tend to be assertive and
competent in both their private and public relationships. People that
are low in self-confidence tend to be reticent and somewhat anxious.
Family Orientation, or the degree to which a person supports and
values the family. People that are family oriented tend to want or
already have children, are very close to their immediate relatives, and
prefer cooking at home to eating at a restaurant. People that are not
family oriented tend to be individualistic, unconventional, and very
much enjoy attending parties and social functions.
Self-Control, or the extent to which a person exerts control
over various aspects of life. People that are high in self-control tend
have strong emotional reactions to things and try to regulate those
feelings by micromanaging and attending to specific details. People
that are low in self-control are usually relaxed, even-tempered, and
lenient.
Openness, or the extent to which a person is open to and
dependent upon others. People that are high in openness tend to like a
wide range of things (e.g., food, music, movies, etc.), in part because
they are concerned with pleasing other people. In contrast, people low
in openness are very independent and opinionated; they know what they
like and aren’t apt to change their opinion.
Easygoingness, or a person’s work ethic and degree of mental
flexibility. People that are high in easygoingness are very relaxed,
broadminded, and unaffected by change. In contrast, people low in
easygoingness tend be hardworking, firm, and sometimes inflexible.
Self-Confidence
As
someone with high self-confidence, you feel quite comfortable
interacting with other people. Indeed, you find the company of others
very stimulating and enjoy meeting new people. Your relaxed demeanor in
groups makes people around you comfortable too. Perhaps because you
feel comfortable talking about yourself, others tend to enjoy being
around you and perceive you as socially competent.
The
confidence that helps you feel comfortable talking to people also
spills into your own personal beliefs about yourself. Although you have
several strengths, it’s likely that you also acknowledge and accept
your weaknesses. But unlike some people, you take full responsibility
for your actions—you rarely regret things you’ve done in the past and
are not embarrassed easily.
Perhaps the defining feature that
sets you apart from most people is the exceptionally high standards
that you set for yourself. Your competence in social gatherings as well
as at work should provide ample evidence for this. With these
characteristics, it’s very likely that people come to you for advice
and generally think of you as someone with leader-like qualities.
Family Orientation
As
someone who is oriented to familial matters, you value the company of
family-members and domestic life. If you have children already, you
enjoy spending time with them very much and work hard to be a good
parent. If you don’t have children, you very much desire having
children in the future. And your preference for cooking and
entertaining guests at home will likely ease the transition into
parenthood.
You take pride in maintaining and cultivating a
healthy family and work hard to achieve this. This natural tendency is
easily illustrated by your preference for doing things around the house
as opposed to going out to clubs and restaurants.
What really
sets you apart from people that are low in family orientation is that
you know how to manage your frustrations and work well on your own.
This means that you are well-equipped to manage a family without
letting all the work that is involved wear you down. However, as
someone with strong family values, all the work that is involved in
maintaining a tidy home and well-stocked kitchen might occasionally
make it difficult for you to finish everything that you need to do.
Self-Control
The
self-control personality dimension captures the way in which a person
regulates and directs him or herself. Being low in self-control can be
both good and bad. Occasionally people may be compelled to follow their
intuitions and give in to their temptations, and your degree of
self-control makes this likely to happen more often than not. This can
be good in circumstances where being relaxed and open are important.
However, in situations where it is necessary to be focused and careful,
you might find that you do or say things that may be inappropriate.
As
someone who exerts little control over your actions, you may find that
you commit social blunders that might offend other people and get
yourself in trouble. For example, if you’re given responsibility to
work on a project that requires close attention to detail, you may be
likely to overlook important details because you have difficulty
staying focused. Consequently, you might feel more comfortable
delegating such tasks to other people who are more detail oriented.
Being able to recognize such characteristics in yourself and having
more detail-oriented people do such tasks could be an effective way to
manage your own stress level.
Low self-control may diminish
your effectiveness at work. Acting too relaxed can make it difficult
for you to focus on projects that require organized sequences of steps
or stages. Thus, your ability to accomplish may be inconsistent.
Indeed, it’s possible that you might be criticized periodically for
being unreliable or unable to “stay within the lines.” Nonetheless, you
may still experience many short-lived pleasures and never be thought of
as boring.
Openness
As someone high in openness, you
have a strong appreciation for beauty, both in art and nature. Indeed,
it’s likely that you are easily absorbed in music and art, as well as
natural phenomena. Another aspect of your openness is your emotional
insight; that is, you probably have good access to and awareness of
your own emotions.
Another aspect of the openness dimension is
the tendency to think about abstract concepts and ideas. This thinking
style may take the form of artistic and metaphorical use of language,
and/or music composition or performance. Thus, it is likely that,
either in your work or spare time, you enjoy activities that get your
“creative juices” flowing.
Your tendency to be open-minded can
have advantages and disadvantages. For instance, when there are no
clear rules about how to approach a particular problem, your openness
makes it easier for you to identify new ways to solve problems that
might not be very obvious to people that are not as open as you are. In
contrast, you may be bored easily in situations that lack high amounts
of intellectual stimulation. In such cases, you might have difficulty
excelling on projects that do not provide much stimulation or require
much creative thinking.
Easygoingness
Easygoingness
refers to one's ability to relax. Based on your score, you appear to
“take things as they come” and enjoy having a good time. However, being
high in easygoingness also has the potential to produce stress in a
number of ways. For example, you may find it difficult to complete
tasks thoroughly and efficiently. In this way, being high in
easygoingness cannot only make your life difficult, but also the lives
of the people around you. Another potential problem with being too high
in easygoingness is that it can provide you with gratification in the
short-term, but in the long-term provide undesirable consequences.
High
easygoingness, even when not seriously destructive, may also diminish
your effectiveness at work, for example. You may find it aversive and
difficult to put in all the effort that may sometimes be needed to
effectively accomplish certain tasks. For this reason, your colleagues
might view you as forgetful and unfocused.
How does your personality affect your love life?
With
the strong degree of self-confidence that you possess, it’s no surprise
that you get along well with most people. Indeed, it’s self-confidence
that allows people to feel comfortable interacting with others without
feeling insecure and vulnerable. For this reason, you shouldn’t have
much difficulty in romance, at least not initially. Your social skills
will likely help relieve any anxiety your romantic partners might have
on those first few dates. However, over time, the high standards that
you have for yourself could potentially frustrate your partner.
Given
how much you value family life, you probably get along best with people
who share your values and beliefs. In fact, it’s likely that you
maintain close connections with members of your immediate and distant
family. For this reason, you would probably be most satisfied in a
romantic relationship with someone who also values domestic life.
Being
in a relationship with someone who enjoys going out to parties and
staying-up late at night might be fun, at least initially; yet it’s
likely that you will find this tiring over time. Thus, it might be
easier and more satisfying for you to develop a long-lasting
relationship with a person who also enjoys spending time at home and
desires starting a family. On first dates, perhaps you might suggest to
your partner that the two of you spend a quiet night having dinner at
one of your respective homes instead of going out to a restaurant or
club.
As someone who is more relaxed than most people, you
likely get along with most people quite well. Chances are that your
friends and colleagues perceive you as lively, fun to be with, and
good-humored. When it comes to romance, you’ll likely be attracted to
most people. However, your free-spirited nature might make being in a
relationship with a person that is more rigid than you difficult
because you might perceive the person as being too uptight and
controlling.
Your openness probably makes it easy for you to
respect and appreciate people that are different from you. However,
when it comes to romantic relationships, your openness might make it
difficult for you to tolerate people that cannot appreciate diversity
as much as you. Therefore, you may be happiest in serious relationships
with people that share your open-mindedness. But, your openness might
occasionally cause a certain degree of dependency on your end because
you may be so open that you easily adopt the preferences and habits of
your partners and gradually relinquish things that make you so unique.
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