Test your happiness Psychologists say it is possible to measure your happiness. This test designed by psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, takes just a minute to complete. To find out how happy you are just look at the five statements below and decide whether you agree or disagree using a 1-7 scale. Please be open and honest in your responding - remember your answers are totally private. Once you have answered all five questions press submit and we will calculate your score. Strongly disagree Disagree Slightly disagree Neither agree nor disagree Slightly agree Agree Strongly agree Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. What makes you makes you happy To understand life satisfaction scores, it is helpful to understand some of the components that go into most people's experience of happiness. One of the most important influences on happiness is social relationships. Other sources of happiness For many people these are sources of satisfaction.
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How to Find Happiness: 7 Timeless Tips from the Last 2500 Years What do you want? A great job? A fulfilling relationship? Go sailing around the Pacific for a few years in your very own luxurious boat? Or just to get along better with yourself? Perhaps you want one of more of those things. One good way to find a few useful, life-improving and time-tested tips is to look back. And if you want to learn much more about inner happiness then have a look at my 12-week Self-Esteem Course. 1. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham LincolnVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius AntoninusThe world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.Ludwig Wittgenstein How your view yourself and your world are conscious choices and habits. You can choose to find happiness in small, everyday things. And your choices controls much of how much happiness your will find and create in your life. 2. You only have now. 3. 4. 5. 6. A pretty obvious one.
Introverts and Highly Sensitive People Introversion and high sensitivity are different, but they can also overlap and interact, and many of us experience both personality traits to some degree, perhaps along with shyness. This page includes articles plus some books, sites, videos and other material about these qualities, their impact on our creative lives, and how we can thrive using the positive aspects. “From about the age of eighteen or nineteen, when I went to college, I realized that it was just not my idea of fun to party. In fact, I couldn’t see why anyone would want to—I get so monumentally bored at parties. “So I realized that I had this fundamental difference with a lot of other people.” – From post: Unsociable, bored at parties, inner-directed, creative personality type. “I’m not the girl at the club on the table. “I was the girl who cut school to go to the park, and the other kids would be smoking and drinking and I’d be reading Shakespeare.” Actor Jessica Chastain – from Jessica Chastain and High Sensitivity. Books:
Secrets of Success Dr. Paul Secrets to Success: 13 Fundamentals I have spent many years studying and analyzing what successful people do in every walk of life and have come to the following conclusion: there is no single formula for achieving success in any endeavor. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Successful communicators are warm, friendly, flexible, humorous and always helpful. With the people that you know, which ones do you look forward to and enjoy talking with? 9. Their thinking is flexible and focused on effective strategies, not on win lose solutions. 10. A pure soul is a rare find, while most people contain a mixture of lovable and destructive qualities. It is important that you transform your self-hatred to self love in an non-egotistical fashion. 11. This Inner directed journey, with its internal compass, will put you in touch and in control of your very being, your moods, thoughts and eternal wisdom. 12. 13. “To be yourself - when the world is doing everything in its power to make -- Bill Gove
Signs You're An Introvert Think you can spot an introvert in a crowd? Think again. Although the stereotypical introvert may be the one at the party who’s hanging out alone by the food table fiddling with an iPhone, the “social butterfly” can just as easily have an introverted personality. “Spotting the introvert can be harder than finding Waldo,” Sophia Dembling, author of “The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World,” tells The Huffington Post. People are frequently unaware that they’re introverts -– especially if they’re not shy — because they may not realize that being an introvert is about more than just cultivating time alone. “Introversion is a basic temperament, so the social aspect — which is what people focus on — is really a small part of being an introvert,” Dr. Despite the growing conversation around introversion, it remains a frequently misunderstood personality trait. But more and more introverts are speaking out about what it really means to be a “quiet” type. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
How to Be 25% Happier in Five Minutes a Day Remember when you got a raise and bought a new car, and you’ve been happy ever since? Neither do I. It doesn’t work that way, does it? So, what does work? Unhappiness often boils down to fear in one form or another: fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough.1 For example, you might be miserable at work because you’re afraid you can’t do your job, and you’re afraid you’ll be fired. But gratitude counteracts fear. It’s not mystical, and it’s not difficult. It may seem foreign or awkward at first, but anybody can think of five things. There’s no need to edit or judge. It doesn’t take long to have an effect. Why it Works By making a gratitude list every day, you retrain your brain to notice the positive. Just imagine if we noticed every tick of the clock or every footstep—we’d never get anything done. You can take advantage of that effect. More and more, you notice positive experiences as they happen, and you feel grateful in real time. Positive Effects 1. 2,3. 4.
Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do LifeHack | Mentally strong people have healthy habits. They manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that set them up for success in life. Check out these things that mentally strong people don’t do so that you too can become more mentally strong. 1. They Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves Mentally strong people don’t sit around feeling sorry about their circumstances or how others have treated them. 2. They don’t allow others to control them, and they don’t give someone else power over them. 3. Mentally strong people don’t try to avoid change. 4. You won’t hear a mentally strong person complaining over lost luggage or traffic jams. 5. Mentally strong people recognize that they don’t need to please everyone all the time. 6. They don’t take reckless or foolish risks, but don’t mind taking calculated risks. You may be interested in this too: 14 Things Positive People Don’t Do 7. 8. 9. 10. Mentally strong people don’t view failure as a reason to give up. 11. 12. 13.
Dealing With Someone Who Won't Stop Talking CREATISTA/Shutterstock One day recently Jean*, a young professional woman, started her session with me by ranting about one of her co-workers. “The man does not stop talking,” she said. “Today he asked me how my weekend went, and before I could utter a word he started telling me about everything he had done.” We all know someone like this man—people who talk without listening, who seem to think that what they have to say is as fascinating to everyone else as it is to them, and who don’t seem to understand that listening is an important part of communicating and connecting to others. What makes these people tick? Talking is part of what we humans do. But people who talk too much don’t seem to get this balance. “Listening requires complex auditory processing,” according to Daniel P. This is what happened with Max*, a smart, articulate man with two young children. I asked Max if he thought that might be part of the problem that had led his wife to ask for a divorce.
Psychometric The Psychology Department has the following tests which may be used only by Psychology staff and students for testing purposes. They are available to be borrowed from Karen Fleet in the Psychology & Philosophy Library which is staffed 9-5 on weekdays during term-time. For more detailed information on which test is appropriate for your study please consult your supervisor or demonstrator. As well as looking at the list of tests held by the department you can do a keyword search on databases such as the Web of Knowledge. Also see International Personality Item pool for public domain personality tests. Tests fall into two categories: those which are made freely available by researchers and commercial tests. Psychometric Tests held by the Department Useful Tests on the Web Some useful reference works about tests and scales held in the Psychology Library Robinson, John P; Shaver, Phillip R and Wrightsman, Lawrence S(Eds) (1991) Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes.
ISFJ This article is about the Myers-Briggs personality type. For the Socionics ISFj, see Ethical Sensory Introvert. ISFJ (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of sixteen personality types.[1] The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types. Jung proposed a psychological typology based on the theories of cognitive functions that he developed through his clinical observations. The MBTI instrument[edit] The MBTI preferences indicate the differences in people based on the following:[5] By using their preference in each of these areas, people develop what Jung and Myers called psychological type. The MBTI tool consists of multiple choice questions that sort respondents on the basis of the four "dichotomies" (pairs of psychological opposites). I – Introversion preferred to extraversion: ISFJs tend to be quiet and reserved.
How Languages We Speak Affect The Way We Think Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this is my uncle” is not as straightforward as you might think. “All of this information is obligatory. This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages” like Chinese use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. But that’s only the beginning. Navigation and Pormpuraawans In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. Featured illustration via iStock.