Every personality is unique and has a dynamic and organized set of characteristics that influences his or her cognition, motivation, and behavior in various situations. Psychologists have attempted to find a relation between personality type and behavior. Although different scientists suggest different personality types.
One of the best known classification is simply extraversion versus introversion or in other words outgoing and physical-stimulation-oriented versus quiet and physical-stimulation-averse people. According to this theory, there are only two types of people, extraverts and introverts. Extraverts usually are initiative, open, and talkative. They tend to say what they think and make new friends easily. Whereas introverts are usually reserved, quiet and thoughtful. They prefer working alone and have difficulties in making new contacts.
Lewis Goldberg a five-dimention personality model, nicknamed the 'Big Five'. The first dimension of this model is openness to experience. People tend to be imaginative, independet, and interested in variety or people tend to be practical, conforming, and interested in routine. The second dimension is conscientiousness, in which people have the tendency to be organized, careful, and disciplined or disorganized, careless, and impulsive. The third dimension is extraversion. This dimension describes people as sociable, fun-loving, and affectionate versus retiring, somber, and reserved. The fourth of the 'Big Five' is agreeableness. This dimension describes the tendency to be softhearted, trusting, and helpful or ruthless, suspicious, and uncooperative. Finally, the fifth is neuroticism: the tendency to be calm, secure, and self-satisfied or anxious, insecure, and self-pittying.
Another way to describe personality is using behavior patterns. There are two main behavior patterns, Type A behavior pattern and Type B behavior pattern. Type A behavior pattern is a cluster of behavior involving hostility, competitiveness, time urgency and feeling driven. In contrast, the Type B behavior pattern is characterized by a patient, cooperative, noncompetitive, and nonaggresive manner.
All in all, it is clear that personality type is related to a certain behavior. Although it is hard to classify people into specific categories because everyone has very differen features.
References:
- Robert Feldman "Understanding Psychology", New York(N.Y.): McGraw-Hill,2008
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_type
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