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More neurotic, less agreeable, less conscientious: how job insecurity shapes your personality
Effects of chronic job insecurity
- Reduced emotional stability. Chronic job insecurity can cause us to become anxious, tense, irritable, and depressed.
- Reduced agreeableness. Agreeable people are naturally focused on sympathy, co-operation, and helping others. Chronic job insecurity shifts our focus to be more on ourselves instead of on others and can affect our standing as a positive and likable person.
- Reduced conscientiousness. When we're always worried about our jobs, we are likely to become less motivated to put in an effort.
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Our personalities can change
Many of us think our personality is fixed and unchangeable.
But according to a recent study, while our early personalities may provide a baseline, they are pliable as we age. People's personality traits may change drastically over time.
Why personality changes matter
Thinking of personality as fixed could leave us feeling like we can never grow or dismiss people with certain qualities, believing that change isn't possible. However, we don't simply change our personalities in random ways. The relationship among all of our personality traits seems to be more consistent.
If someone was really conscientious but slightly disagreeable, they might keep that personality profile as they age, even if their other traits changed a bit.
Our personalities are a mix
Personality seems to change cumulative over our lifespan and likely happens in response to our life experiences. Therefore our personalities are a mix of stable and unstable.
- Parents and teachers should keep that in mind when they try to influence a child's personality.
- Even the elderly, whom we might expect to be more set in their ways, can change.
- Partners would be better served by learning to value what remains constant in someone's personality while embracing personality shifts as they happen.
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The Dark Side Of Self Control
Agreeable, organized individuals seem to have a suppressed, dark side in their personality.
Model citizens, and people with high self-control, and those who are resistant to impulsive behaviour in daily life, maybe ‘bursting’ out their inner desires in one go all of a sudden, letting go of their willpower and even morality.
Self Control And Moral Character
People with high levels of self-control are generally seen to be healthy, well-rounded individuals who are ideally less likely to act violently or aggressively.
New research shows that this behaviour pattern may be to gain acceptance and tread the social norms as a means to one’s end, being selfish and self-centred in private.
High Self-Control
People with high self-control have a surprising behavioural trait of being shrewd and cruel according to various studies:
- They are more likely to cover up an anti-social act to avoid getting caught, like for dangerous driving.
- They ended up being keener to kill hundreds of bugs in a grinder, without any feeling of remorse.
- They electrocuted their opponents in a TV game to a much higher degree than others, not knowing that the electrocution is being feigned by the contestant.
But more research needs to be done before we slot someone’s moral values and behavioural traits into predictable patterns.