Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator within the allied health professions
Robert Jones, Fiona Jenkins, Penny Humphris, Jim Easton in Key Tools and Techniques in management and leadership of the Allied Health Professions, 2021
Contrasting with them are ‘introverts’. Introversion has for many years had a bad press (there is a famous if untraceable story about a comment heard in an American supermarket queue, ‘My daughter used to be an introvert, but she’s better now’). But the term ‘introversion’ merely means that your energy is turned, and tuned, to the inner world of thoughts and concepts, so that: you will feel most at home in your inner lifeyour strengths will lie in deep reflection rather than quick action, and you will usually be more of a specialist, knowing ‘a lot about a little’ (or having few friends, but knowing them very well)you will typically keep something of yourself in reservein order to give of your best, others will need to allow you time to think things over—to consult your inner sources of judgment and experience and to pay attention to what they say. Of course, introverts can and do extrovert, but it drains their energy and can leave them with nothing to spare for social interaction at the end of the day.
The body as lived experience in health and disease
Martyn Evans, Rolf Ahlzén, Iona Heath, Jane Macnaughton, Rolf Ahlzén, Martyn Evans, Pekka Louhiala, Raimo Puustinen in Medical Humanities Companion, 2017
When something is wrong in the body, it will show sooner or later. An experience will emerge that is impossible to refute. The body-as-nature displays its physical autonomy. It attracts the attention of the subject, who tries to understand and to get to grips with the situation. There is a continuing inward vigilance, and thus the experience gets its form also in time. When the symptom is intense, it catches our full attention, and our contact with the world and with others becomes seriously weakened. The intentionality of the primarily bodily symptom is introverted.1 The degree of introversion is a measure of the seriousness of the condition. Rachel even locks the door against an outside world that she cannot endure any more. Introversion is loneliness, and it is meaninglessness, since the body is hardly relating the self to others any more. It is implosive. Jake’s introversion is more complex. It is running away both from the eyes of others, and from the insistent presence of his own skin, the latter demandingly distracting him from his relationships.
Compulsive Homicides in Historical Context
Louis B. Schlesinger in Sexual Murder, 2021
Several years later, Revitch (1965) completed a descriptive study of 43 adult and adolescent males who attacked women; this group included 9 murderers. He found that 18 offenders (42%) knew their victims, while 25 did not. Of the 43 offenders, 30 (69%) had previously committed offenses, but only 3 of these were overt sexual offenses, while 12 (40%) involved breaking and entering. The backgrounds of these offenders included noticeable hostility to women, preoccupation with maternal sexual conduct, overt or covert incestuous preoccupation, guilt over sex and rejection of sex as impure, sexual inferiority, and occasionally a need to completely possess the victim. Hostility toward women was more predominant in the adult offenders, while sexual preoccupation, particularly preoccupation with maternal sexual behavior, was more striking in the adolescent group. Tendencies toward introversion, along with feelings of isolation and detachment and blurring of reality boundaries, were also common findings. Nineteen offenders (44%) were considered schizoid, nine (20%) overtly schizophrenic, five (12%) mentally defective, and ten (23%) were classified as having a personality disorder. Revitch’s finding that only 3 of the 43 attackers had a record of previous sex offenses suggests that such a history is of little use to law enforcement personnel looking for an unknown offender who has perpetrated a sexual murder or an unprovoked sexual attack on a woman.
Personality diversity in the workplace: A systematic literature review on introversion
Published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2023
Juliet Herbert, Leticia Ferri, Brenda Hernandez, Isaias Zamarripa, Kimberly Hofer, Mir Sohail Fazeli, Iryna Shnitsar, Kald Abdallah
As part of our first objective on the evaluation and definition of introversion, we identified trends in personality measures and author definitions of introversion that consistently leaned toward negative attributes. Examples of this can be found in published personality measures (i.e., HEXACO-60, 2009) (Ashton & Lee, 2009) where the statement, “I sometimes feel that I am a worthless person,” is included as one of ten questions to measure extraversion. When an individual strongly agrees with this statement, this translates to them being classified as an introvert. Additionally, it was observed that the most commonly used measures of introversion/extraversion were those based on Eysenck’s personality theory, which were developed and revised between 1964 and 1992. As well, the main focus of these tools was to evaluate extraversion, where introverts were defined as those who scored low on extraversion scales. The consistent use of such dated tools to measure personality in publications as recent as 2018 (Yao et al., 2018) demonstrates that there is a paucity of modern standardized and validated tools available to assess and define introverts.
Neuroticism and introversion mediates the relationship between probable ADHD and symptoms of Internet gaming disorder: results of an online survey
Published in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019
Bilge Evren, Cuneyt Evren, Ercan Dalbudak, Merve Topcu, Nilay Kutlu
In the previous study conducted among the Turkish university students, the severity of ADHD symptoms has predicted the severity of IA, together with low extraversion (introversion), high neuroticism, depression and anxiety symptoms [50]. Severity of neuroticism was higher and extraversion was lower among those with the probable ADHD in the present study. Also low extraversion (introversion) and neuroticism predicted the probable ADHD. According to Eysenck’s theory, neurotic people – who have low activation thresholds, and unable to inhibit or control their emotional reactions, experience negative affect (fight-or-flight) in the face of very minor stressors – are easily nervous or upset. Introverts are chronically over-aroused and jittery and are, therefore, in need of peace and quiet to bring them down to an optimal level of performance. Previous studies suggested a relationship between introversion personality trait and IA [25–27]. Also, high neuroticism predicted IA among university students [26,27]. Several studies provided evidence that adults diagnosed with ADHD tend to demonstrate increased levels of neuroticism compared with nonclinical controls [28–31], whereas ADHD patients scored comparable with nonclinical individuals on extraversion [31]. In a recent study conducted among the Turkish university students, those with probable ADHD had higher scores from neuroticism than those without, whereas extraversion did not differ between these groups [32]. The reason for this difference according to extraversion may be that the present study included amateur and professional e-sports gamers, additional to the university students.
Sleep and psychological characteristics in habitual self-awakeners and forced awakeners
Published in Chronobiology International, 2022
S. Malloggi, F. Conte, B. Albinni, G. Gronchi, G. Ficca, F. Giganti
As for the introversion-Extraversion dimension, it has been suggested that introverts are innately more aroused and have an active internal life providing them with impulses (Eysenck 1967): therefore, introverts are largely self-sufficient and find inside themselves the excitement that extroverts conversely seek externally (Heinström 2010). In this perspective, SAs, as introverts, might be primarily prone to rely on their internal sources to achieve their goal of awakening at a predetermined time rather than to adopt external means.
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