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Stress and Personality

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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Stress and Personality

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  1. Stress and Personality

  2. How does your personality affect your response to stress?

  3. Major Points • Background from the field of Psychology • Personality Traits/Types • According to stress response • Typology systems

  4. Psychology of Personality:What do they have to say??? • Freud • Jung • Kubler-Ross • Frankl • Maslow

  5. 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.

  6. Jung Your personality arises through individuation. Stress may result from conflicts between your conscious and unconscious.

  7. Kubler-Ross The stages of handling unmet expectations are similar to the stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance.

  8. Frankl Stress can arise from the failure to make meaning out of life and suffering.

  9. 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

  10. Personality Traits: Stress-prone vs. Stress-Resistant

  11. Type A Behaviors/Traits • Rushed lifestyle • Predictor of heart disease • Characteristics • Type A and our society • Hostility is the key factor

  12. Other-Focused Traits/Behaviors • Self-worth comes from others depending on them • Characteristics • Motivation

  13. Helpless-Hopeless Behaviors • Learned helplessness • Locus of control

  14. Hardy Personality • Commitment • Control • Challenge

  15. Sensation Seekers • Type R • Calculated risks

  16. Self-Esteem and Personality • Low self-esteem = stress-prone • High self-esteem=stress resistant • Self-Assessments in book (p. 125-127) • Self-Value

  17. Personality Typology • Jung  Myers-Briggs Typology Inventory (MBTI) • Preferences

  18. Extraversion External focus Energy from people Intraversion Internal focus Time alone Extraversion-Intraversion

  19. Sensing Rely on senses Practical Deal with facts Intuition Dreamers Experience Deal with ideas Sensing-Intuition

  20. Thinking Logical Analytical Think through decisions Feeling Emotional Decisions based on values Thinking-Feeling

  21. Judging Organization and order Work ahead of schedule Perception Spontaneous Work best at the last minute Judging-Perception

  22. Myers-Briggs Type and Stress

  23. Preferences • Extroversion • Introversion • Intuition • Sensing • Thinking • Feeling • Judging • Perceiving

  24. 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?

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