Personality

6 Sleeping Positions that Determine your

Personality

The Fetus: Those who curl up in the fetus

position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They

may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax.

This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000

people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as

men tend to adopt this position.

Log (15%): Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who

like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers.

However, they may be gullible.

•The yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be

suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they

have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.

Soldier (8%): Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who

sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don't like a fuss, but set themselves and others

high standards.

Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands

around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and

don't like criticism, or extreme situations.

Starfish (5%): Lying on your back with both arms up

around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and

offer help when needed. They generally don't like to be the center

of attention.

What is personality?•The set of characteristics that

makes each of us unique•These characteristics are

relatively permanent – they do not vary from day to day

•Our personality shapes the way we act, think, and feel about events, ideas and other people

Traits

• Traits are expressed as types of behaviour

• One way of describing a personality is by naming a person’s traits

• Examples?

Personality types...Early theories• Galen, a Greek doctor, during the 2nd Century,

described 4 personality types based on excesses of bodily fluids (or humors):

1) Blood (Sanguine) = Cheerful & optimistic

2) Black Bile (melancholic) = Depressed & pessimistic

3) Yellow bile (choleric) = Quick tempered & irritable

4) Phlegm (phlegmatic) = Calm & uninvolved

Temperaments – Hippocrates believed that four bodily fluids affect personality

traits & behaviours...

The temperaments were:1) sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable), 2) choleric (ambitious and leader-like), 3) melancholic (introverted and thoughtful), 4) and phlegmatic (relaxed and quiet).

From then through modern times, they, or modifications of them, have been part of many theories of medicine, psychology and literature.

The Big Five TheoryWarren Norman

  Extraversion adventurous

assertive frank sociable talkative vs.

Introversion quiet

reserved shy unsociable

 

1

Agreeableness vs Antagonistic

altruistic argumentative gentle persistentkind disagreeablesympathetic lack of empathywarm

2

Conscientiousness vs. Undirected

competent unfocused dutiful irresponsibleorderly lacking directionresponsible flightythorough haphazard

3

Emotional Stability (Norman)

calm relaxed stable

vs. Neuroticism (Costa and McCrae)

Angry anxious depressed

4

Cultured vs. Simplistic

cultured Crudeesthetic Crassimaginative Simple mindedintellectual artistically

insensitiveopen closed to new

things

5

Sheldon's Body TypesEndomorph:

Round

Soft

Pudgy

Short

Personality characteristics:

Funny, jolly, comical, cheerful,

Life of the party, sociable

EctomorphThin

Angular

Skinny

Tall

Frail

Personality traits:

Quiet, shy, reserved, reflective, sneaky, sinister

Mesomorph

Muscular

Buff

“jacked”

Active

Personality traits:

Assertive, leaders, competitive, domineering, insatiable,

Modern Approaches include:

: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

: Canadian Personality Dimensions

: American TRUE COLOURS system

: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Indicator (MMPI)

Carl Jung – Psychoanalytic school of thought

Jung coined the terms Introvert & Extrovert and believed we are all one or the other.

Added his four Functional Types:

1) Thinking (uses reason)

2) Feeling (uses emotions)

3) Sensation (uses the 5 senses)

4) Intuition (uses perception)

Thinking & Feeling are opposite to each other as are, Sensation & Intuition; he believed our conscious & unconscious mind(s) gravitate to opposing types.