One of the most important environmental factors is the influence of culture. According to Triandis & Suh, (2002), culture is defined as the shared meaning systems that creates the benchmark for perceiving, believing, evaluating, communicating, and acting among the population that share a common language, a historic period and often the same geographic location (Triandis & Suh, 2002)
Other researchers like Suutari and Brewster (2000) and Vance (2002) claim the importance of selected or self-initiated expatriation by a section of the individuals who look to gain greater career development by working abroad in a different atmosphere. The researchers claim that is because such people feel that their exposure to alien and new cultures would effectively increase their capability to adapt to new conditions and situations and gain from the experiences of working and living in a new cultural environment (Vance, 2005)
Further, King notes that there are four important basics to successful conversation. These are: honesty, a good attitude, interest in another person, and openness about yourself (King)
However, after reading some of the literature on adult education and the characteristics of the average adult learner, I found that many (if not most) older students also place a high regard on autonomous learning. In fact, after reading the landmark The Inquiring Mind (Houle, 1961), I began to understand just how prevalent it is for adult learners to undertake their continuing education with an independent nature
Use past experiences to solve problems, prefer interactive learning, teamwork, barnstorming techniques, as well as in-class discussion. These learners enjoy guest speakers and media as supplements to professor or text lead learning (Kolody, Conti, and Lockwood, 1997)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by repetitive instability in behavior, close personal relationships, mood, and self-image (Corelli)
Primitive defense mechanisms such as splitting and projective identification play a large role in muting the empathic response of BPD patients in early development. Further, such responses play a role dampening empathic responses during family interactions in adolescence (Shapiro)
What is Personality? The New York Times-owned About.com explains that personality has certain "fundamental characteristics," including: a) consistency (there is a sense of regularity and order to human behaviors; people tend to act the same way or in "similar ways in a variety of situations"); b) psychological and physiological (personality is psychologically constructed but research reveals that it is "also influenced by biological processes and needs"); c) personality has a profound impact on a person's actions and behaviors (our personalities cause us to act in certain ways, hence, personality isn't just influential, it is a driver of our behaviors); and d) multiple expressions (many behaviors are displayed in response to how our personalities function and how we interact with others and express our thoughts) (Cherry, 2012)
This paper posits that leaders are not born with the skills of leadership but rather they are nurtured and trained to be leaders; and moreover, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and a leader's emotional stability -- along with a well-developed superego -- can and will impact employees in positive ways, moving any organization forward on an optimistic path. Works Cited Cherry, Kendra. (2012)
When thinking about what makes a leader tick, following Freud's descriptions can be helpful and enlightening. Freud posited that humans have an "Id" (the innate biological instincts and urges, a "self-serving, irrational and impulsive" part of the personality that is known as the "pleasure principle" (Coon, et al
In that august research, which posited that humans have about 30,000 genes, the evidence is definitely slanted towards nurture and not nature. While some scientists and others would like to believe that people who suffer from colon cancer, for example, are born with a defective "colon cancer" gene, research published in the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine points to the fact that cancer is "largely caused by environmental rather than inherited factors (Davies, 1)
Using simple linear regression analysis the authors determined that while neuroticism (a trait that has the individual fluctuating in moods and sometimes anxious) was indeed seen as a negative aspect of ethical leadership, agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion were seen as positive attributes vis-a-vis ethical leadership (Xu, 366-67). Meanwhile in an article published by the Journal of Business Ethics (Kalshoven, et al
Ethical Leadership and Leaders' Personalities A scholarly article in the peer-reviewed journal Social Behavior and Personality examines the relationship between ethical leadership and the dimensions of leaders' personalities. The authors explain that there have been "hundreds of studies" devoted to looking into the relationships between the "Big Five personality dimensions and leadership," but there has been very little research "carried out to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership" and the Big Five personality dimensions (Xu, et al
These matters require a heuristic framework according to the vision of an etiologically-based classification system for personality disorders and maybe also for other psychiatric syndromes (Pukrop). The diagnostic criteria for the 5th edition of the DSM of Mental Disorders require substantial rework on the current assessment and identification of personality disorders (Connors, 2011)
He is rigid and a perfectionist (PubMed Health). Causal Factors of Personality Disorders These are biological and psychosocial factors (Kopeikin, 2000)
Early parental loss, severe parental rejection, the lack of parental affection and consistency in dispensing reward and punishment are the causal factors behind psychopathy as distinguished from personality disorder (Kopeikin). Approaches to the Assessment and Identification of Personality Disorder The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorder or DSM-V Research Planning Work Groups sought alternative dimensional representations in response to reports of dissatisfaction over the existing categorical classification system for personality development (Pukrop, 2008)
Types of Personality Psychological researchers Carl Jung, Katherine C. Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myer formulated four main personality type indicators (Steele & Young, 2011; Murie, 2010; Zardus et al
How does reconciliation take place? Hall and Nordby describe it in terms of psychodynamics and the progress of psychic energy. "Progression is defined as a person's daily experiences which advance his psychological adaptation (Hall and Nordby, 1973, p
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)