Personality :
- is an individual's unique pattern of characteristics.
- there are may influences on personality, including heredity, environment, attitudes, and behaviors.
What to know about personality :
- heredity: heredity helps determine your intellectual abilities, temperament, and talents.
- environment where you live and the people with whom you have contact influences your personality and the opportunities you have.
- attitude: is the feeling or emotion a person has toward something or someone.
- behaviors: is what you do.
What to know about personality :
- type is a person's usual way of focusing energy, gathering information, making decisions, and getting work done.
- knowing and understanding your personality type helps you understand yourself.
- understanding personality types helps by understanding people whom you interact.
- also helps improve chances of working successfully with others.
What to know about personality :
- how you focus energy
(E) Extroverted : you energized by people and things.
(I) Introverted : energized by ideas and images.
How you gather information :
(S) Sensing : trust tangible info that you gather your senses
(N) Intuitive : give more weight info from your insight imagination.
What you know about personality :
- How you make decisions -
(T) Thinking : base decisions an objective principles and facts.
(F) Feeling : trust your "gut" and weigh decisions against people's issues and concerns.
- How you get work done? :
(J) Judging : approach doing things is structured and organized.
(P) Perceiving : approach to doing things is flexible; adapt to things and prefer open-ended deadlines.
* Addition: compelling desire to use drug or to engage in a specific behavior, negative consequences, and loss of control.
How addictions affect health status:
* An addiction can harm physical health.
- using drugs; nicotine, & alcohol can harm your body
* An addiction can jeopardize safety:
- teens who have an addiction may choose unsafe actions and have accidents.
* An addiction can harm relationships:
- addictions neglect relationships and deny and lie about their addictions.
* An addiction can cause problems with the law :
- addictions can include illegal activity, such as drug use, gambling, and half to support an addiction.
* An addiction can jeopardize financial health :
- addictions, such as shopping, drug, gambling; might cause teens to spend large amounts of money.
* At risk for addictions:
- depression or a negative self- esteem - difficulty expressing feelings
- genetic vulnerability - trouble managing anger
- feeling guilt or shame - constant need for approval
- traumatic childhoods
- feeling tension, anxiety, boredom, or loneliness
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