scholarly journals Personality Styles: Why They Matter in the Workplace

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-163
Keyword(s):  
Personality Style ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
Workplace Productivity

Personality style is a popular topic. Extroversion has historically been celebrated while society has tried to cure introversion. Most individuals fall somewhere in the middle of the personality spectrum and possess both strengths and weaknesses related to their preference. A variety of personality styles are represented in every workplace and these can cause tension and conflict. Understanding the nuances associated with varying personality styles will allow organizations to accommodate the needs of individual employees leading to greater workplace productivity.

scholarly journals Overcontrolled, undercontrolled, and resilient personality styles among patients with eating disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Isaksson ◽  
Ata Ghaderi ◽  
Martina Wolf-Arehult ◽  
Mia Ramklint
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Personality Style ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Poor Treatment ◽  
Atypical Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Poor Treatment Outcome

Abstract Background Personality has been suggested to be an important factor in understanding onset, maintenance, and recovery from eating disorders (ED). The objective of the current study was to evaluate personality style in different ED diagnostic groups as classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition (DSM-5). Methods The overcontrolled, undercontrolled, and resilient personality styles were compared in four groups of patients with EDs: anorexia nervosa restricting (ANr) (n = 34), anorexia nervosa binge eating/purging (ANbp) (n = 31), atypical anorexia nervosa (AAN) (n = 29), and bulimia nervosa (BN) (n = 76). These groups were compared with a group of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) (n = 108), and a non-clinical group (NC) (n = 444). Patient data were collected at two outpatient clinics in Uppsala, Sweden. NC control data were collected through convenience sampling. Participants filled out questionnaires assessing personality style. Results The main findings were more pronounced overcontrol reported by the ANr and AAN groups compared with the BN, BPD, and NC groups, and no significant difference in resilience between the ED and the NC groups. Considerable variability of over- and undercontrol was also found within each group. Conclusions The results replicate previous findings when EDs are classified according to current diagnostic criteria (DSM-5). Taking personality styles into account may improve our understanding of certain characteristics in EDs, such as social deficits and rigidity that are attributed to poor treatment outcome.

Quality of Internalized Object Representations and Suicidality in Individuals With Anaclitic and Introjective Personality Styles

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie C. Lewis ◽  
Kevin B. Meehan ◽  
Nicole M. Cain ◽  
Philip S. Wong ◽  
A. Jill Clemence ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Object Representations ◽  
Personality Style ◽  
Personality Styles

Research has shown differences in the characteristics of suicidal behavior in individuals with dependent (anaclitic) versus self-critical (introjective) personality styles. Questions remain, however, as to what factors distinguish suicidal from nonsuicidal individuals within each personality style. The current study examined clinical and interpersonal correlates of suicidality in 124 patients attending residential treatment for complex psychiatric disorders, with the aim of clarifying how social cognition and quality of internalized object representations relate to suicidality in individuals with anaclitic versus introjective personality organizations. Higher anaclitic and lower introjective traits each predicted higher frequency of prior attempts. Furthermore, higher anaclitic and lower introjective traits interacted with the affective-interpersonal quality of object representations to predict prior attempts, such that each trait was associated with more frequent past attempts in the context of poorer quality of object relations. The treatment implications of these findings are discussed, and areas for future research are considered.

scholarly journals Emotional abuse interacts with borderline personality in adolescent inpatients with binge-purging eating disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Spiegel ◽  
S. Arnold ◽  
H. Salbach ◽  
E. G. Gotti ◽  
E. Pfeiffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Personality Style ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Adolescent Inpatients

Abstract Purpose Childhood abuse is associated with an increased risk of developing eating disorders (EDs) as well as personality disorders (PDs). However, their interaction is still uncertain, particularly in adolescents. This study investigates the correlations between childhood emotional neglect (CEN), childhood emotional abuse (CEA), and obsessive-compulsive and borderline personality styles in female adolescent inpatients with eating disorders (EDs). Methods One hundred and twenty-eight inpatients (ages 14-18) were assessed, 54 were diagnosed with restricting-type anorexia nervosa (AN-R) and 33 with a binge-purging ED [BP-ED; comprising patients with binge-purging type anorexia nervosa (AN-BP), n = 15, and bulimia nervosa (BN), n = 18]. Fifty healthy participants made up the control group (CG). CEN and CEA were assessed with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, while the Personality Style and Disorder Inventory was implemented to determine personality styles. Results A MANOVA revealed a significant main effect of CEA on spontaneous-borderline personality style [F(8,119) = 17.1, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.126], as well as a main effect of ED group on spontaneous-borderline [F(2,119) = 3.1, p = 0.048, η2 = 0.050]. A significant interaction between ED group, CEA, and spontaneous-borderline was found [F(2,119) = 3.5, p = 0.034, η2 = 0.055] with BP-ED showing significantly higher scores in CEA (9.3 ± 4.0) and in spontaneous-borderline (14.2 ± 6.2). Conclusions Considering CEA and borderline personality style in adolescent inpatients with BN or AN-BP may help improve the understanding of the etiology and maintenance of BP-ED and provide more effective treatment targets. Level of evidence Level III, case–control analytic study.

Cerebral Metabolism and Personality in Patients with Epilepsy of the Temporal Lobe

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Felipe-Oroquieta ◽  
F. Ortega ◽  
A. Maldonado ◽  
M. A. Pozo ◽  
R. G. Sola
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Fdg Pet ◽  
Cerebral Metabolism ◽  
Rorschach Test ◽  
Personality Style ◽  
Complex Partial Seizures ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Metabolic Pattern ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
Positron Emission

Extratension and introversion are stable personality styles in adult subjects. Mental functioning of the former is especially influenced by the emotions and of the latter by ideation. The aim of the present work is to analyze, using positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG-PET), possible differences in cerebral metabolism in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in relation to different personality styles assessed with the Rorschach test. Twenty-eight drug-resistant TLE patients with complex partial seizures were assessed by means of FDG-PET and the Rorschach test. According to location of the epileptogenic area in the dominant hemisphere and the personality style of the subject, a table of contingencies was drawn up (χ² and contingency coefficient). Finally, an analysis was made of the personality changes in patients that had received neurosurgical treatment. The results show a clear differentiation with FDG-PET as regards location of the temporal lobe affected. In 80% of subjects personality style coincided with a cerebral metabolic pattern: introversives had predominant hypometabolism in the left hemisphere and extratensives in the right. The tendency toward introversion or extratension in ambitents showed this metabolic pattern only in 38% of subjects, with 54% presenting the opposite pattern. The Rorschach test was carried out for a second time after surgical temporal resection (n = 13), and it was observed that some patients maintained their personality style while others modified it. These results suggest the existence of different hemispheric metabolic patterns in the personality styles assessed by the Rorschach test in TLE patients.

Personality Scales as Predictors of Older Combat Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1040-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Hyer ◽  
Stephanie Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Outpatient Clinics ◽  
Treatment Seeking ◽  
Personality Style ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatient ◽  
Individual Personality

The sparse literature on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among older combat veterans has not explored individual personality styles. 120 older combat veterans who were treatment-seeking in medical and psychiatric outpatient clinics, were assessed whether two personality styles (identified in other research as potentially reflective of PTSD) added to the problems of PTSD beyond the information associated with the stressors of combat and aging. Analyses indicated that the personality style, Sensitivity, was significantly related to PTSD beyond these other factors.

Career Personality Styles Inventory

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingchen Fu ◽  
Li-Fang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Personality Styles

scholarly journals The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110069
Author(s):  
Molly M. King ◽  
Megan E. Frederickson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Scholarly Productivity ◽  
Workplace Productivity ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women

Academia serves as a valuable case for studying the effects of social forces on workplace productivity, using a concrete measure of output: scholarly papers. Many academics, especially women, have experienced unprecedented challenges to scholarly productivity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The authors analyze the gender composition of more than 450,000 authorships in the arXiv and bioRxiv scholarly preprint repositories from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis reveals that the underrepresentation of women scientists in the last authorship position necessary for retention and promotion in the sciences is growing more inequitable. The authors find differences between the arXiv and bioRxiv repositories in how gender affects first, middle, and sole authorship submission rates before and during the pandemic. A review of existing research and theory outlines potential mechanisms underlying this widening gender gap in productivity during COVID-19. The authors aggregate recommendations for institutional change that could ameliorate challenges to women’s productivity during the pandemic and beyond.

The Use of Personality Styles in Designing Curriculum in Hospitality Schools

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-105
Author(s):  
Gunce “Georgia” Malan ◽  
Cihan Cobanoglu ◽  
R. Douglas Waldo
Keyword(s):  
Personality Styles
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