{"id":1399,"date":"2020-11-17T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myjuggler.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:57:14","slug":"4-traits-found-in-psychologically-healthy-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjuggler.com\/4-traits-found-in-psychologically-healthy-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Traits Found in Psychologically “Healthy” Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Researchers identify the personality markers found in well-adjusted individuals.<\/h2>

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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of traits psychologists use to describe someone\u2019s\u00a0personality<\/a>. A person can be gentle, nervous, modest or\u00a0conscientious<\/a>. Someone can be demanding, independent, vain or risk-taking.<\/p>

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Which traits are most likely to be found in psychologically \u201chealthy\u201d individuals? A team of researchers led by Weibke Bleidorn of the University of California, Davis attempted to answer this question in a\u00a0new\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>. They found that high levels of\u00a0openness<\/a>\u00a0to feelings, positive emotions, and straightforwardness, combined with low levels of\u00a0neuroticism<\/a>, were most indicative of a healthy personality.<\/p>

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\u201cScholars have been interested in characterizing a healthy personality prototype since the beginning of the scientific study of personality,\u201d states Bleidorn and her team. \u201cThe father of modern personality trait theory, Gordon Allport, distinguished the \u2018mature person\u2019 based on their intentional pursuit of long-term\u00a0goals<\/a>. […] Erik Erikson famously claimed that Sigmund\u00a0Freud<\/a>\u00a0described the healthy person as someone who can love and work.\u201d<\/p>

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Bleidorn and her team added a contemporary twist to this age-old question. In their first study, they recruited 137 personality experts to rate which of 30 commonly-used personality traits would appear in psychologically stable individuals. They found that experts rated openness to feelings, warmth, positivity, and straightforwardness as the traits most likely to appear in well-adjusted individuals. Hostility, depressiveness, vulnerability, and anxiousness, on the other hand, were rated as least likely to be found in well-adjusted individuals.<\/p>

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Below is the full list of personality traits, ranked high to low on their likelihood of describing a psychologically \u201chealthy\u201d individual:<\/p>

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  1. Openness to Feelings<\/li>
  2. Warmth<\/li>
  3. Positive Emotions<\/li>
  4. Straightforwardness<\/li>
  5. Competence<\/li>
  6. Altruism<\/a><\/li>
  7. Activity<\/li>
  8. Openness to Values<\/li>
  9. Tender-Mindedness<\/li>
  10. Dutifulness<\/li>
  11. Gregariousness<\/li>
  12. Self-Discipline<\/li>
  13. Order<\/li>
  14. Achievement<\/li>
  15. Deliberation<\/li>
  16. Openness to Aesthetics<\/li>
  17. Assertiveness<\/a><\/li>
  18. Trust<\/li>
  19. Compliance<\/li>
  20. Openness to Ideas<\/li>
  21. Modesty<\/li>
  22. Openness to\u00a0Fantasy<\/a><\/li>
  23. Excitement-Seeking<\/a><\/li>
  24. Openness to Actions<\/li>
  25. Self-consciousness<\/li>
  26. Impulsivity<\/li>
  27. Anxiousness<\/li>
  28. Vulnerability<\/li>
  29. Depressiveness<\/li>
  30. Hostility<\/li><\/ol>

    Next, the researchers repeated this exercise with a group of undergraduate students. They found a high degree of consistency between the ratings of the personality experts and the undergraduates, suggesting that the personality traits associated with psychological health can be identified by laypeople and experts alike.<\/p>

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    The researchers then put their profile of the psychologically \u201chealthy\u201d individual to the test. They did this by measuring how well their \u201chealthy\u201d profile lined up with other psychological dimensions such as well-being,\u00a0self-esteem<\/a>,\u00a0aggression<\/a>, and\u00a0narcissism<\/a>. Examining survey responses from over 3,000 individuals, they found support for their predictions: Psychologically healthy individuals scored higher on psychological dimensions associated with superior psychological functioning (e.g<\/a>., self-esteem,\u00a0self-concept<\/a>\u00a0clarity, and\u00a0optimism<\/a>) and lower on dimensions associated with psychological dysfunction (e.g., exploitativeness, aggression, and antisocial behavior).<\/p>

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    The authors conclude, \u201cSimilar to\u00a0Carl Rogers<\/a>\u2019 portrayal of the \u2018fully functioning\u2019 person, the psychologically healthy person can be characterized as being capable to experience and express emotions, straightforward, warm, friendly, genuine, confident in their own abilities, emotionally stable, and fairly\u00a0resilient<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0stress<\/a>. […] This research integrates a number of historical threads in the literature on optimal human personality configurations and provides a practical means for future research on this important and interesting topic.\u201d<\/p>

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    References<\/strong><\/p>

    Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Ackerman, R. A., Witt, E. A., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., … & Donnellan, M. B. (2020). The healthy personality from a basic trait perspective.\u00a0Journal of personality and social psychology,\u00a0118(6), 1207.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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