Comparison of Personality Traits

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to understand the relation among consciousness, life satisfaction and agreeableness. These all are personality traits and this paper will help to understand the importance of these personality traits in life.

Introduction

In this paper, there is a thorough study of consciousness, life satisfaction and agreeable. There are many points which can be helpful and supportive to make them interlinked with each other. In this paper the importance of consciousness, life satisfaction and agreeableness is discussed there are many examples narrated which can be very much supportive to give weight to the study. Furthermore, there are many points to be discussed which can assist in many ways to make a relation between these personality traits.

Method

Consciousness

The meaning of consciousness can be taken as the higher state of awareness. In the field of psychology the term consciousness plays an important role. There are many examples which can explain in very much detailed way that consciousness is very much important to understand the study of psychology. At present most of the people are facing problems in the comprehension of the term which is consciousness. It is very much difficult to understand because the consciousness is relevant in almost all the field of sciences (Crane, 1922).

Consciousness is one of the forms in which objective reality is reflected in the mind of man. According to the cultural-historical approach , characteristic of consciousness is that it mediates between objective reality and consciousness are the elements of the socio-historical practices that enable the objective to build a conventional picture of the world.

Everybody refers to consciousness as the level of awareness we have in our lives. Consciousness is the perception of our own reality and the ways we act according with our beliefs. Consciousness is constituted from our emotions, our senses, our intelligence, our experiences, our knowledge, our integrity, beliefs, values, and so on (Kahneman, 2010).

It has been believed consciousness is all, is who we are. Our consciousness is our experiences, the way every one of us perceives the world. Consciousness is like a small voice living inside of us that help us sort through or thoughts and emotions so our brain does not get overwhelmed. According to Plato, we all attain consciousness through ideas of our reality.

In his Allegory of the Cave, he describes prisoners being chained and totally immobilized, only able to see shadows on a wall in front of them. For them the shadows are their only reality. The ideas that they form of those shadows is their consciousness. Analyzing Plato's Allegory from a different perspective, we can see the symbolization he drew with the Cave, the shadows, the fire, the sun and the world. The symbol of the Cave, represents our mind, the shadows represent the belief that are formed by our family and society values. The fire represents a part of our intelligence and the sun and the outside world represents our Pure Awareness. Who we become after being freed is our Consciousness (Edwards, ...