Sometimes we experience a fight, or anger with someone, the emotion often passes. We calm down and get over it and, as we do, the physical symptom of arousal disappears as well. But sometimes we can experience emotional arousal which does not go away.
Being anxious about whether there will be enough money to pay the bills, for instance, is a continuous worry, not a passing thing. This means that it is constantly producing physiological arousal which does not go away.
I’m in a relentless pursuit to find an opportunity that values me.
I feel undervalued at most jobs (No this is not one of my core issues!), that’s because of the whole interns are cheap labour and lets really mince them out! (This is general feedback from all the interns I’ve spoken to within the field).
And very frankly, I do NOT want to be squeezed off all my energy for no valuable return. Like many things in life, a balance should be maintained. Read the rest of this entry
Friedman and Rosenman (1974) identified Type A and Type B personalities.
They were not psychologists but cardiologists working with heart patients. They noticed that a lot of patients suffering from heart attacks had similar personalities.
Thus they conceptualised personalities in terms of Type A and Type B personalities.
William Sheldon (1942) conceptualised personality in terms of types in his Somatotype theory.
This theory associated psychological dispositions and patterns of behaviour with external features.
According to this theory there were three major personality types namely
Like most sciences, the history personality dates back to ancient Greece. It is generally accepted that the first theory of personality is derived from Hippocrates (460-370 bc). However, it was Galen (130-200 ad), another Greek philosopher, who documented and further developed the theory which is referred to as the Hippocrates/Galen personality or Temperament theory.
This theory was based on a classification of the major types of temperament as function of both psychological and biological differences. The Greek classification of personality types assumed the biological differences would cause behavioural differences. Read the rest of this entry
