“Psychology for young professionals Assignment Please write a personal statement to talk about your personalities and particularly your strengths and weaknesses within 2 pages length.”

In the Five-Factor model of Personality formulated by Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, it is found that I am fallen in the dimension of the high end of conscientiousness and low end of extraversion which can at the same time be my strength and weakness. For the former, I am said to be well-organized and self-disciplined. I usually prefer to put my lecturer notes in a neat order inside a bind-folder and be punctual to important events. On the other hand of the latter, I am quite reserved and aloof sometimes. To be more specific I am sober to make new friends in unfamiliar conditions and aloof to some friends even who are not too close to me.

Following that, the Social-cognitive Approach to Personality stating you are what you think you are involving the use of self-schema being the cognitive generalizations about yourself can be adopted. Within the Rotters Locus of Control, I proud mys…(short extract)