Category Archives 'Personality Psychology'

Character Accentuation Types

Character Accentuation Types

Types of character accentuation are multiple types of characters in which individual traits have passed into a pathological state. Some accentuated character traits are often sufficiently compensated, but in problematic or critical situations, the accentuated person may display disturbances in adequate behavior. Accentuation of character (this term originates from Lat. (Accentus), which means underlining) [...]

Co-dependency

Co-dependency

Co-dependence is a state of strong human attachment. A sufferer of co-dependence is completely absorbed into the state of another person, becomes psychologically and physically dependent on him. Dependence and co-dependence mean almost the same thing. The difference is that the addicted person has an addiction to the chemical substance, while the person with co-dependence shows an attraction to the person. Signs of a person being [...]

Coping

Coping

Copying is a person’s actions by which he fights stress. The term coping comes from the English “coping” or also “to cope with”, which means coping with stress. Copying comprises the cognitive, behavioral and emotional elements that ensure the preservation of the integrity of the personality and opposition to external or internal factors that cause tension or create too complex [...]

Chronic fatigue

Chronic fatigue

Chronic fatigue is a completely natural physiological reaction of the human body, associated with the formation of neurosis of the ganglionic nervous system, due to inhibition of the function of the zone responsible for inhibition processes. The factors provoking the occurrence of the syndrome in question include unbalanced intellectual stress and emotional overstrain along with a decrease in physical activity. It is believed that residents of megacities, individuals whose work is associated with responsibility (for example, [...]

Delinquent behavior

Delinquent behavior

Delinquent behavior is an asocial, unlawful behavior, which is manifested in actions that harm society, threaten the lives of others and the general social order, are criminally punishable. It comes from the Latin delictum, which translates as "misconduct." This concept defines the meaning of this behavior, that is, delinquent behavior is behavior that indicates misconduct against society, against social norms and [...]

Selfishness

Selfishness

Egoism is in psychology a value orientation, a quality of a person, thanks to which he puts his own interests above the interests of other people, groups, and collectives. The egoist will never begin to take part in a cause that will not be profitable for him; he does not understand the sacrificial morality of serving his neighbor. The behavior of a selfish person is completely determined and guided by the motives of personal gain, without taking into account the [...]

Pride

Pride

Pride is the quality of a person that is formed as a result of excessive pride in an individual. She is identified with arrogance, selfishness and arrogance. A proud person believes that he is superior to others in anything, in work, clothing, in tastes, in the general way of life. In addition, often he has no good reason to unfairly treat others and [...]

Personality theories

Personality theories

Theories of personality are various assumptions, a set of hypotheses, a set of concepts and approaches that explain the origin of personality, the determinism of its development. The theory of personality development seeks not only to interpret its essence, but also to anticipate human behavior. It provides researchers and theorists with the opportunity to understand the nature of the human subject, helps to find answers to rhetorical questions that they constantly ask. Theories [...]