Day Five: Internal Medicine

Day Five:

Hello Readers,

This day had more of a pleasant demeanor to it compared to Day Four. On this day I visited another nursing home with Dr. M and experienced something other than the sensation of depression and sadness.

My experience at this nursing home was the polar opposite of what I felt on Day Four. As I walked past the front doors of the home, I was immediately greeted with the sight of blue and yellow finches. The walls were the color of sunshine and decorated with Valentine’s Day decorations. The patients and nurses within the walls of the home were smiling and joyful despite the circumstance that led to their residence there. At the other home, the walls remained a bleak grey color and were hardly varnished with anything other than patient sheets. Instead of smiles and happiness, the other home had an aura of melancholy and the nurses and patients wore expressions of resignation and anger.

The stark differences I noticed between Day Four’s nursing home and Five’s only serves to support my idea that there are so many factors outside of one experience like there are so many factors outstanding of a personality test that it is almost impossible to say that one person should do this rather than that. To elaborate, let me define what a nursing home is, it is a place for people who don't need to be in a hospital but can't be cared for at home who have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day. Basically it is a place where an individual baby-sits someone until they pass. As depressing as the thought of withering away in the presence of people who do not know you and who are usually unable to help, it can be altered. At this nursing home, the elderly people that resided there were living an almost normal life, in both the acute and chronic. Despite the melancholic notion of a nursing home, the effort that the nurses put in they almost made the idea appealing.

What I took away from this comparison was: what an experience can be and are two completely different things and an affirmation that there are more outlaying factors than meets the eye.

Thanks for Reading.  

Research: Jung, Myers, and Briggs

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For this blog entry I decided to give some more background information on my topic and to show the extensive research that has been done on personality typing.

Research has indicated that that many different personality types tend to have distinct preference in their choice of careers. Based off of well-known research conducted by Carl Jung, Katherine Briggs, and Isabel Myers there are sixteen prominent personality types that have shown a preference towards some and not others.

Carl Jung first developed the theory that every individual has a personality type, where there are two basic kinds of functions: how we perceive things (how we take in information), and how we make decisions (what we base decisions off of). Jung adamantly believed that these two functions were complete opposites. He viewed that within these two categories there were many other options. He believed that one had the ability to perceive information through either ones’ senses or ones’ intuition, but he also believed that one could make decisions based on objective logic as well as subjective emotions. Jung believed that one uses all four functions in our lives, but the frequency that we use them is determined entirely within the individual. His research led him to believe that there is an order of preference of these functions within individuals, where an individual uses their dominant function first, and then relies on auxiliary, and tertiary, and inferior functions that follow up behind. Jung also believed that the dominant factor was so important that it overshadowed all the other functions following the dominant factors: Extroverted and Introverted.

In conclusion, Jung found and determined eight differing personality types:

·      Extraverted Sensing

·      Introverted Sensing

·      Extraverted Intuition

·      Introverted Intuition

·      Extraverted Thinking

·      Introverted Thinking

·      Extraverted Feeling

·      Introverted Feeling

Jung’s work was later extrapolated and made into Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers own personality test. The mother and daughter duo studied extensively on the work of Jung, and in 1962, they published their own questionnaire: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The results yielded were similar to those of Jung, but the results that Myers and Briggs made differed greatly. Myers and Briggs results differed in their concept of whether a given personality type's (extrovert or introvert) fourth letter J or P (Judging or Perception) was determined by how that type interacts with the external world, rather than by the type's dominant function as Jung hypothesized.

 

This yielded an additional eight spectrums of personality types:

·      (Modern types: ESFP, ESTP)

·      (Modern types: ISTJ, ISFJ)

·      (Modern types: ENFP, ENTP)

·      (Modern types: INFJ, INTJ)

·      (Modern types: ESTJ, ENTJ)

·      (Modern types: ISTP, INTP)

·      (Modern types: ESFJ, ENFJ)

·      (Modern types: INFP, ISFP)

This is where I will leave now,

Thanks for reading!