Stress test

I would like to review results of a stress test that I have taken.

My overall score is 4,19 on a range of 1 to 5. This score is a measure of overall emotional well-being.

The second score assess my quality of life. My assessment is 4,1. This is a measure of how happy or satisfied I am with my life, including overall self-esteem, health, friends and family and work or school. I think this evaluation is quite good and it reflects my quality of life. I feel happy with my life and although I have only few friends but, I suppose, they are really great and reliable people.

The third score measures my symptoms of depression, anxiety and hostility. My score is 4,22. This score means that I am quite well-adjusted. I suppose that this is true because I am not depressive and blue person. Of course, sometimes I feel sad for particular things but this feeling is not so strong and it don’t last for a long time.

The last is level of functioning score. This is a measure of how well I am able to get along in the community. My score is 4,25. In my opinion, I can socialize quite well but sometimes it is difficult to me to interact with people who I don’t like.

All in all, I would like to say that I think this test isn’t very reliable because, for instant, when I feel bad, I think that my friends are not as good and my life is not so well. So I suppose that the score depends on a person’s mood and isn’t always accurate.

References:

www.lessons4living.com/stress_test.htm 

 

Giving Entire Cultures a Personality Test

Summary

It is thought that every member of a nation has personality traits which are typical in all cultures. There are a lot of stereotypes such as British people are unemotional and reserved, German people are organized and so on.

A large group of researchers tried to answer the question whether it is true. They investigated people living in 50 different cultures by a test that can be used cross-culturally. Researchers also wanted to know common beliefs about people from those cultures.

According to results of the study, members of a particular culture were able to give consistent summaries of their national character. What is more, the summaries of national character did not match the actual personality profiles of individuals within those cultures.

All in all, a national character shows how people see themselves within a culture but it does not reflect the actual personality traits.

Personality Test

I'm going to review results of two personality tests that I have taken.

Firstly, I would like to review results of Jung Typology Test. According to this test, my type is ISFJ. It means that I am slightly expressed introvert and  I have moreately expressed sensing and feeling personality and slightly expressed judging.

The second test was The Big Five Personality Test. There are five personality traits – openess to experience, concientiousness, extravesion, agreeableness and neuroticism (or emotional stabilty). According to this test, I‘m somewhat conventional. I think it is true because I am skeptical of innovation. On the other hand, I am creative and curious. This test shown that I‘m introvert. It means that I tend to be reserved and quiet. I‘m agree with it because, in my opinion, I have more traits that are typical for introvert than extravert. What is more, my assessment of neuroticism was 60 percent. It means that I tend to become anxious and nervous. Yes, sometimes I am worried and concerned about various things but I suppose that my concern is not too intense. I can be relaxed and calm and don‘t worry over little thing.

All in all, I suppose that these tests are quite reliable but we shouldn‘t blindly rely on them. It is not enough to take one or two tests in order to find out the personality. 

References:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

English Language Invasion

Summary

Invasion of the English language is becoming a huge problem in other countries such as France or Chinese. It is fear that English can take over the local language.

To begin with, English invasion into French is clearly noticeable. There are a lot of areas where French was changed to English. Some organizations and unions constructed slogans in English. It is thought that English invasion could be avoided but there was lack of political will. What is more, statistics states that French is becoming less popular.

Moreover, Mr. Hugan, chairman of the International Federation of Translators, is the person who is strongly resisting English invasion to Chinese. In his opinion, this phenomenon causes a lot of problems and, according to him, using English does not make people open-minded and international. However, although Gu Yeugo agrees with Mr. Hugan, he also supposes that English invasion is a global phenomenon and there is no way that China can stop it.

All in all, it is the fact that English makes considerable influence on the nation, traditions and customs and it is natural that people are resisting invasion of foreign language. However, it is almost impossible to stop this phenomenon.

References:

Articles: “Chinese language damaged by invasion of English words” and “English invasion threatens French language more than Nazis did”.

Self-esteem

Self-esteem, also called self-respect or self-love, is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation on his or her own worth. In short, it is somebody’s opinion of oneself. High self-esteem is a good opinion of oneself and low self-esteem is a bad opinion of oneself.

Many early theories suggested that self-esteem is a basic human need or motivation. American psychologist Abraham Maslow, for example, included self-esteem in his hierarchy of needs. He described two different forms of esteem: the need for respect from others and the need for self respect. According to Maslow, when people fulfill a need for self-esteem, then they can seek the last self-actualization need. So self-esteem is the next-to-last need in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

But it is not good when people have not enough or too much self-esteem. Not enough self-love can lead people to become depressed and hopeless or to tolerate abusive situations and relationships. People who self-esteem is low can see themselves as victims. But there are some ways in which people can improve their self-respect. For example, people with low self-esteem should get their facts right and take a realistic view of themselves. Moreover, everyone should know that disappointments and failures are a part of daily life and life isn’t always fair. On the other hand, too much self-respect results in an inability to learn from failures. And it’s occasionally a sign of narcissism.

All in all, I would like to say that it is really important to have high (but not too high) self-esteem because it helps to keep a positive outlook on life.

References:

http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/increase_your_self-esteem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/emotional_health/mental_health/emotion_esteem.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-esteem
(2011-02-11) 

Multiple intelligences test

I have taken multiple intelligences test and I’m going to review my results.

Test shows that I have good naturalistic and interpersonal intelligences. I got 20 points. That means that I may be nature smart and I like the world of plants and animals. It’s true, because I have a dog and I really like flowers. There are a lot of flowers in my room. But it is interesting that when I came to Vilnius and I left flowers at home with my mother flowers started to fade. So I suppose that my mother hasn’t as good naturalistic intelligence as I have. Actually, I don’t think that my interpersonal intelligence is as good as shows results of the test. Of course, I like socialize with others and be with people, but I like to be alone too. In my opinion my intrapersonal intelligence are better that interpersonal. I think I know more about myself than about others. In addition, I’m writing a diary.

The least is my musical and linguistic intelligences. I got only 10 points. Although I enjoy the music, I don’t like play with musical instruments and I think it is quite difficult to me and it is true that I’m not linguistic smart because I don’t like writing and I read books really rarely with pleasure. Of course, now I have to read a lot, because I’m studying, but it isn’t really fulfilling.

My kinaesthetic and logical intelligences were assessed 18 points. I agree with it. I suppose that it is quite good assessment, because I like sports and I enjoy doing exercises. Moreover, mathematics wasn’t difficult for me when I was at school. So I think I may be number smart.

In my opinion, this test is quite reliable, because it shown results that I think aren’t lie.

Self-assessment

ESP vocabulary tests

In my opinion, these tests were really useful because we should learn many new words which are concerned with psychology. On the other hand, it was really difficult to explain some concepts.

Writing summaries

Writing summaries is new for me. We had written all of them at home, so it wasn’t really difficult. Nevertheless, I made quite number mistakes and I needed time to understand the text and write summary.

Online exercises Multiple Choice & Filling in blank

This task is useful because we can revise the material that we learnt at home. Online exercises weren’t difficult when I saw into the module fairly.

Moodle tests

When I was doing these tests I was using the book. It was good because I could scan through the text one more time.

Online listening in class. Traditional listening to cassettes.

Listening was quite difficult for me. Sometimes speakers spoke too fast or their speeches were hardly understandable.

Power Point Presentation

Although this task was the most difficult and I spent a long time preparing presentation it was the most interesting too.

Speaking impromptu

I think that I was not enough active in class discussions and speaking impromptu was the hardest task for me because my speaking skills are not so good.

Short-talk (ready made speech)

This task is simpler than speaking impromptu for me because I can look for unknown words and prepare at home.