Dealing with a Disorder
My research paper is about personality and some common personality disorders. Personality is a topic discussed in chapter eleven. Personality’s actual definition is an individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavior traits. In other words personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Personality develops with age, and can change with traumatic experience. Did you know that birth order can affect our personality? There are traits we associate with being a first born (being bossy, motivated, high achievers or more driven); with being a middle born (being friendly, people pleasers, and quite skilled negotiators); and being a last-born (being amusing, more laid back, and also less responsible). Empirical research supports these norms and trends. There are five core personality traits, which are measures of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Certain personalities are more prone to disease: There appears to be a link between one of the “big 5 traits” (neuroticism) and proneness to developing headaches, asthma, arthritis, peptic ulcers and heart disease. There is also a link between having a Type A personality (and, in particular, scoring high on the hostility levels) and developing cancer and heart disease. Our personality affects our personal preferences: The impact here is surprisingly far reaching. It includes: our choice of friends and partner, our taste in music, our political preferences, our career choices, our preferred holiday destinations and so on. So in conclusion personality has a lot to do with a person and how they interpret certain things in life. The article I chose was off of the American Psychological Association website, Help for personality disorders. This article explains how people with personality disorders have abnormal thoughts and behaviors that keep them from functioning normally. There are two inventions that help treat