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Self-Analysis Assignment #4: Goals, Emotions, Disorders, &…
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This assignment involves a “self-analysis” of your personality* as it relates to the material we covered in this section of the course (Chapters 15, 16, & 17). In particular, how do the theories and research in this section of the course apply to your own* personal strivings or goals? Answer this question by addressing each of the following:
What would you say is your major (most important, influential) current life task, goal, or personal striving?
(a) Describe this goal/life task in some detail and indicate where you might have come up with such a goal/life task. Here’s the link to A Personality Process Exercise and A Life Tasks Exercise (earlier activities) devoted to this concept. You might want to review these first.
A Personality Process Exercise
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_____ 1. In uncertain times, I usually expect the best.
_____ 2. It’s easy for me to relax.
_____ 3. If something can go wrong for me, it will.
_____ 4. I always look on the bright side of things.
_____ 5. I’m always optimistic about my future.
_____ 6. I enjoy my friends a lot.
_____ 7. It’s important for me to keep busy.
_____ 8. I hardly ever expect things to go my way.
_____ 9. Things never work out the way I want them to.
_____ 10. I don’t get upset too easily.
_____ 11. I’m a believer in the idea that “every cloud has a silver lining.”
_____ 12. I rarely count on good things happening to me.
A. Mark an X through the “filler” items [numbers 2, 6, 7, 10]. These are “junk”
items that don’t have anything to do with optimism/pessimism.
B. Circle the negatively worded items [numbers 3, 8, 9, 12]; add the values of
these circled items; subtract this total from 16 (that is, 16 – total for the negative items).
C. Next, sum the positive (uncircled) items [numbers 1, 4, 5, 11]; add these to the
corrected negative score.
D. This total score (sum of positive and negative items) represents your optimism
score. The possible range is 0 – 32. Thus, higher scores (e.g., 24-32) denote people who
are very optimistic. Lower scores (e.g., 0-8) denote people who are ver
Life Tasks Exercise
Use the following 10-point rating scale to answer each question:
1 = Not at All
10 = A great deal/Very
Likelihood of successfully completing your goals?
Extent of conflict among your goals?
Answer the following:
Are your goals mostly achievement or intimacy/affiliation goals?
Are they mostly short-term or long-term goals?
(b) Then illustrate what past theory and research have to say about how your goal or life task is likely to influence your current behavior and personality. Choose at least two major research approaches for this part and link their findings to your own particular case.
(c) Finally, speculate about how the various approaches to personality therapy might help you in accomplishing your goal/life task. Choose two major therapy approaches and speculate about how those approaches might aid you in moving more successfully toward your goal or accomplishing your life task. This material can be found in Chapter 17 (Physical and Mental Health), as well as Chapter 10 on Freud, and Chapter 12 (Humanistic approach). What would you need to do, according to these approaches, in order to be successful in your personal strivings?
