Results from my Personality Tests

Results from my Three Personalities Tests 

First Personality Test: 

In this blog you will see that I took three different personality tests. The first personality test was the 16 Personalities assessment. After I took the test, it showed that I was an executive type meaning that I am a leader, and I approach life with a sense of duty and responsibility. It noted that I do not waste time on problems and complete them with efficient steps. On the test, it also tells you how your personality shines in the workplace. This was a clear indicator that I chose the career path that was right for me as I am organized, and I thrive in environments that have clear expectations where I can have my own structure. This personality test is definitely describing me as a person as most of my families and friends would describe me using these words. I have always been the person who gets things done right away and does not waste time in deciding how I want to do something. I am organized with calendars and lists of what needs to be accomplished in my work, and I am a leader when it comes to how I take on challenges with my coworkers.

Image Source: 16 Personalities 

Image Source: 16 Personalities 

The picture above is my percentages when it comes to extraverted or introverted, intuitive or observant, thinking or feeling, judging or prospecting, and assertive or turbulent.  As you can see, I am 75% extraverted, which is my strongest trait. I am energized in social events, and I love to show my excitement when I am with others. I believe this has helped me become the teacher that I am. I do a great job with showing my personality with my students and try to make their school year exciting through my excitement. My two highest percentages that I am observant more so than intuitive and I am turbulent versus assertive. What does this mean? I have a strong understanding of what is going on, I focus on the now with myself and others. I know things before they happen because of what I have observed beforehand. The other high percentage that I scored was that I am turbulent. After I scored that high in turbulent, I had to look up what that means. The 16 personalities define it as being eager to improve but has a hard time accepting that they are doing what they can and try to do or be more. The negative of being high turbulent is that I respond poorly to stress. Boy oh boy, this is me and has been me since I was little. I have a very hard time dealing with being under pressure and things around me happening in the negative. For example, when I am teaching, I feel that I get stressed out easily because of the behaviors and the students who might not be where they should be academically. I work a little too hard to get them to be where they need to (which is a positive but can be tiring,). As I mentioned before, I am organized and I plan before doing anything, this defines the 75% of my judging personality. Finally, I am almost in the middle of thinking and feeling. This means that I focus on making decisions due to the facts/information, but I also focus on the feelings of the individuals that will be involved with the decision. The ones that I connect the most with are that I am an extravert and that I have a high level of emotions that causes me to be eager to improve. 

Second Personality Test: 

The second personality test that I took was the Personality Type Indicator. This test again showed that I am extraverted and that I am halfway for feeling and judging. The personality type test noted that I am organized and extremely aware of my surroundings understanding how others are feeling before they express it. Both tests seem to be very similar in my results. There are some negatives to being an ESFP or the Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving in me. To start, I am living in the now instead of looking at my responsibilities that I have in the future. I also am always seeking excitement and if I can't find it, I get bored very easily which leads to not a constant lifestyle, or risky life because my thrill for excitement. When I was in college, my roommates would say "Why can't you ever just sit down?", or "How do you get bored so easily?". These results help me understand myself in that aspect. Finally, I am very overemotional and tend to get upset with criticism and disapproval. If people express to me that I have things I need to work on, I overthink and work to become better at the task. I am more so driven by criticism to prove that they are wrong. 

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Third Personality Test: 

The third test that I took was the Five Thirty-Eight test. This test had me answer questions with disagree strongly or agree strongly and have options for in the middle like somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. The test gives you scores in five different traits. The five are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, negative emotionality, and openness to experience. The test scores them with percentages out of 100. For extraversion, I was 75% out of 100%. This stated that I am a happy independent that has a lot of energy and enjoys social outings. The next trait was agreeableness which I scored 58% out of 100%. This does not mean that I am not agreeable but that I have a little less tendency towards others empathy and compassion towards others. For conscientiousness, I scored 88% out of 100%. This again notes that I am organized, well planned out, and a very hard worker. Negative Emotionality is the next trait that I was scored on. I received my highest score with 96% out of 100%. With such a high score, this means that my anger, frustration, and anxiety cause some tension in my relationships. The final trait that was scored was openness to experience which I scored at a 75% out of 100% which means that there is a high chance that I am actively seeking new adventures or hobbies. I really enjoyed this personality test as I felt like a lot of my high percentages reflects who I am and the percentages that were in the middle-made sense as I do tend to agree with people but also do not hold back when need be. 

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Reflection:

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I have a very strong personality that everyone can see through my actions. When I was done taking these tests, I shared the results with my siblings and they all said, "Yes that is 100% you." The ones that stuck out the most was the fact that I am an extravert and that I am observant. I believe that these tests are accurate as most of them reflects who I am as a person and as an educator. Understanding myself so well before and after these assessments helps me understand what I bring to a professional learning network or a PLN. A PLN is a group of people that you can connect with to increase your understanding of an idea. PLNs usually happen on an online database. As an educator, PLNs are a great way to gain knowledge on subjects that you are teaching students and ways to better yourself as an educator as these kids now a days need constant support. There are four types of people that participate in a PLN. They are an encourager which is someone that keeps you going and continuing with your learning. These people appreciate your participation to learn new techniques. The next is a challenger which these types of people will challenge your thoughts and ask you to really think about your answers or your thought process. Advocate is the next trait when it comes to members of the PLN. An advocate is someone who will speak up for you and share with everyone your strengths. Finally, the fourth trait is a technical advisor. which is someone who is extremely good at the subject that you are trying to learn more about. These are your peer-relationships that are in a professional learning network. I do not think that I fall under one specific trait but sometimes I think I can fall under all of these traits depending on the networking I am in. My biggest trait from above is my ability to give off a positive energy. This definitely helps me be the encourager in a PLN. I would really like to become someone who is a challenger or an advocate for others. There are times that I am a technical advisor, and I need to be better about sharing what I know. A PLN that I would be a technical advisor in would be phonics for students who are learning how to read. I have found such a joy in that.

Action Plan based on my Personality Traits:

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As I mentioned above, my strength is that I am an extrovert and that I enjoy showing others my excitement when I am around them. However, with that strong positive emotion comes my strong negative emotions too. I believe that this is my biggest weakness when it comes to being under stress. Sometimes this means that my negative emotions come out like my frustration, and anger when I am stressed. I am creating a 3-step plan that allows me to strengthen my skill level in controlling my negative emotions. 

Step 1: I will find a PLN that deals with people working through their emotions. I need to seek PLNs that have technical advisors in this subject area, this way I can learn from them on how they have improved handling their stress or how they have helped others improve. I think online networks would work best for me because of how much downtime I spend on the internet. I would use TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook. On this step, I am truly just learning from others and finding a safe space to explore my peers' experiences. Step one should take about a week or two to find the right network for me. Each day I should be looking for new connections. 

Step 2: On this step, I would like to try a technique that I learned from networking. The technique should be mentioned in the PLN that I found the most beneficial. This could be a coping mechanism while I am working (where I am the most stressed) or an activity that others have done when they are under high levels of stress. I believe that this step should take some time as I need to find out what works for me. 

Step 3: My final step would be to comment on the PLN. The comment should be something that has been a positive about joining the PLN and maybe even a compliment towards someone who has given me good advice. On this step, I want to be a contributor, and I want to become either someone's encourager to keep following along or an advocate for others by sharing how being apart of this group has helped me. This step will be my end goal, and each step will start over as I want to continue my involvements. 

Being a part of the internet for such a long time, I never realized how many PLNs I have been a part of. These can range from education to health to activities to do in different areas. I am always a watcher instead of participating. I want to become someone that is an active member in Professor Learning Networks for not only my career but my everyday activities. As mentioned in one of the articles above, these networks are a great way to find a place where you belong. 

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