Do you have a healthy personality?
According to researchers, these 10 healthy personality traits are key to your psychological well-being.
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This inventory is also a longer version of the NEO-Five-Factor Inventory that examines a persons Big Five personality traits.
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(To see where you fall on the scale, you cantake an online testcreated by Dr. Kaufman).
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Openness to feelings
Openness to feelings means that we are not afraid of our feelings, says Hayes.
We trust and accept our emotions and use them to guide and inform us.
We are not manipulating ourselves or others.
We are entering a genuine relationship.
Having authentic relationships means bringing more connection and intimacy into our lives.
Feeling competent is feeling that I am okay.
Feeling competent generates warm feelings about who we are in the world, which is great for self-esteem.
Warmth
Warmth generates intimacy and connection, says Hayes.
People are more likely to trust us and feel good around us.
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Positive emotions
When we experience joy, it gives us room to breathe, says Hayes.
It is a childlike, carefree feeling.
When we feel love, joy, and excitement, that brings a level of vulnerability.
When we dont allow these feelings to happen, they may make us feel vulnerable to disappointment.
Low levels of angry hostility
Anger and hostility can be destructive to our relationships, Hayes says.
But if we feel too much anxiety, we limit ourselves and avoid situations.
Our comfort zone becomes small, and we do not live with a sense of freedom and safety.
When we feel depressed, we can experience a lot of intrusive negative thoughts.
Our thoughts become more black and white and very fixed.
Low vulnerability to stress
Low vulnerability to stress means we are facing life with more resilience, says Hayes.
When life throws us something stressful, we feel more competent to deal with it.
We can also be more discerning about what stress to take on board.
Underneath, we are more in control, more proactive and less reactive.
In many ways, warmth is a learned trait as opposed to a genetic one, Dr. Fenkel says.
The same goes for low levels of anger and hostility.
The way you learn to respond to stress begins very early in development.
But what can you do if you dont score high naturally in these traits?
Its possible that you canmindfully shift facets of your personality over timeto work in better alignment with your goals.
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