Self Analysis



Self Analysis

Introduction

Personality refers to the patterns of thinking, acting and feeling of a human. Various aspects of the personality are helpful and valuable in thinking about the development of career. For the personality there are four themes portrayed and developed by the psychologists. There are four areas of personality as described by the psychologists and each human have a natural predilection in each area (UCR, 2013).

In addition, there are three major approaches for the self analysis and these approaches are Cognitive, Trait and Motivational views. In this paper my personality will be described in term of these major perspectives that “Who am I”.

Discussion

Cognitive Approach

There are three defining features of the social cognitive approach. The first feature is the principle of reciprocal determinism or reciprocal interactionism. Social and personal settings are considered as reciprocally interacting systems. The environments of the socio cultural contribute to the growth and maturity of the structures of personality. In turn, the personality factors partially conclude that which environments the humans experience and how they understand the socio cultural settings they meet.

In the social cognitive approach, the second defining feature is the elements of analysis. By these elements, the cognitive approach conceptualizes the functioning of the personality and the differences between the humans. The comprehension of the personality is done by the reference to the fundamental affective and cognitive processes and structures. These variables and changeable of cognitive and affective processes have the social foundations on the personality. This means that these variables are developed and grown up through the experiences with socio cultural environments of humans.

This theory distinguishes between various separate cognitive abilities that add to the functioning of personality. These abilities consists of the cognitive mechanisms that lie beneath the social competencies and skills, structures of knowledge through which the humans understand or encode the scenarios and conditions.

This also includes the self reflective procedures through which the humans establish the beliefs about themselves. The relation of humans to the social environment and self authoritarian procedures through which the humans develop personal aims and principles for the performance and inspire themselves to attain the preferred end are also included.

The third feature of the social cognitive approach is that it deals the personality as a dynamic and intricate system. Personality is a system of energetically interrelating affective and social cognitive procedures. Personality can be comprehended by assessing the fundamental elements and the interrelations between these elements (Cervone, et al. 2001, pp. 34-35).

“Who am I” the answer of this question lies in the social cognitive approach that my personality is full of experiences with social environment. I have experienced the social environment and adopt the positive features from it rapidly. Sometimes, negative things are also absorbed by me that are the intricate intrinsic features of my personality.

Trait Approach

Trait theory in psychology is an approach for the studying of the personality of humans. The theorists of traits are mainly interested in the measurement of the traits that can be explained as the habitual prototypes of emotion, behavior ...