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Name: Joe Aris S. Evangelista Subject: Theories of Personality Chapter: 14

Facets of Personality: Taking Control, Taking Chances, and Finding Happiness

A facet is a particular and distinctive component of a larger personality attribute in

psychology. The five-factor model's Big Five personality qualities each include six facets,

which are all assessed using a different scale. How much control do you have on your actions

against the events in your life? Are you a thrill seeker who is inspired to overcome new

obstacles and experience everything life has to offer? Are you happy with your life? Regardless

of your answer this narrative will help you to be positive in life, whether taking control of your

emotions against negative things around you, taking chances or being out of your comfort zone

to seek adventure or thrill in life, and constructing the best things possible as well as fixing the

worst or simply helps you find happiness. Locus of control refers to how much people believe

they are in charge of their own activities as opposed to having external circumstances dictate

how things turn out in their lives. Risk-taking has significance and plays a crucial role in

evolution. Humans might not have discovered new partners, colonized the world, or thrived as

a species if they had not had the bravery to venture into uncharted, potentially dangerous

territory. Scientific understanding and practical interventions to foster wellbeing in persons,

families, and communities" will be made possible by positive psychology. The following

narratives will help the reader understand the importance of each theory and their relations that

will ultimately make up as the Facets of Personality. These are all works of three psychologist

Rotter, Zuckerman and Seligman and we will discover how they made impact in the world of

psychology.
 Understanding the Facets of Personality is significant, because this aspect affects our

wellbeing. the link between personality and well-being may provide insight into the well-

temporal being's stability. When creating interventions aimed at enhancing wellbeing, it can be

useful to understand the function of personality. You will have a better understanding of your

self-control, whether you are a risk taker or not or are you having a positive outlook on the

future and feeling satisfied with one's life go hand in hand.

Rotter discovered that some individuals think that their while others think their

reinforcers are under the power of other individuals and other forces, reinforcers depend on

their own activities. This idea was dubbed locus of control by Rotter. People with an internal

locus of control think that their own actions and skills are in charge of the reinforcement they

receive. Those who have an external locus of control think that fate, luck, or other people decide

what rewards they will obtain. In order to evaluate locus of control, Rotter created self-report

inventories. The Internal-External (I-E) Scale offers 23 options for forced selection. The item

that best captures a subject's beliefs is chosen from each pair of options. The widely used

Children's Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale is a 40-item exam that may also be used

to measure locus of control. While self-efficacy seems to be more situation-specific, locus of

control can always be applied to a variety of circumstances. Locus of control has emerged as

one of the most researched factors in psychology, giving Rotter's views strong empirical

backing. Marvin Zuckerman conducted studies in the 1970s on a personality trait he called

limited-domain sensation seeking. Eysenck was the first to notice the strong genetic component

of this feature. The need for "varied, innovative, complicated, and powerful feelings and

experiences, and the desire to take physically, social, legal, and investment risk in order to

experience such experience," was how he described this quality in humans. The Sensation

Seeking Scale (SSS), a 40-item survey in paper-and-pencil set-up, was created by Zuckerman.

He used a lot of people whose actions fit his concept of sensation seeking when he was
preparing this exam. These persons included those who agreed to participate in psychological

studies that subjected them to fresh experiences, those whose occupations put them in danger

physically, and those who acknowledged using drugs or having a variety of sexual experiences.

Early research' SSS results corroborated the notion that sensation seeking was more prevalent

in first- and only-borns than in later-borns. Firstborns and only children have more stimulation

and parental attention when they are young, which increases their exposure to the ideal degree

of stimulation and predisposes them to engaging in sensation-seeking behavior as grownups.

Numerous behavioral, cognitive, psychological, and physiological factors have been linked to

sensation seeking. Seligman promoted positive psychology in the late 1990s when he served

as the American Psychological Association's president. He believed that the best aspects of

human functioning—happiness, greatness, and ideal human development—should be the focus

of psychology. In terms of happy feelings and emotions in 2010, he placed himself in the

bottom 30% of people. The happy personality, also known as subjective well-being or life

satisfaction, is what psychologists refer to as being in possession of good moods and feelings

as well as a cognitive assessment of the quality of one's life experience. Subjective well-being

is associated with pleasant emotions including joy, curiosity, love, and zeal. In terms of their

motives and objectives, those with high subjective well-being are different from those with low

subjective well-being. According to study, having a positive outlook on the future and feeling

satisfied with one's life go hand in hand. Happiness, or perceived well-being, is thought to

influence the kinds of actions that result in success, according to research. A lot of happy

feelings, such happiness, work satisfaction, calmness, and optimism, characterize the good life.

The engaged life entails involvement, dedication, purpose, and labor engrossment.

Utilizing one's skills, abilities, and capabilities to join, support, or dedicate oneself to a cause

greater than oneself is a necessary component of living a meaningful life. According to his

findings, pursuing purpose and engagement has a significantly stronger correlation with
happiness than pursuing pleasure. Initial calls for a positive psychology were enthusiastically

embraced, according to Seligman. Only two years after he initially raised the subject, the first

journal in the area, the Journal of Happiness Studies, started publishing in 2000. By 2014, the

organization's objectives had been praised in more than 10,000 journal articles, seminars,

books, talk programs, and popular periodicals. A Google search for "happy" returned about

350 million results by 2015.

Since the idea has attracted a lot of public interest. More and more individuals

nowadays are looking for advice on how to live more fully and fulfill their potential. Self-

control, adventures, and happiness are the experiences that make up well-being. It entails

having a positive outlook on life, feeling content with it, finding meaning or purpose in it, and

being able to handle stress. In a broader sense, being well simply means feeling well.

Rotter has conducted extremely thorough and well-controlled studies, and heuse as

many objective measurements as you can. Numerous studies have offered strong empirical

support. The I-E Scale has been used in therapeutic and educational settings and has inspired a

lot of study. Locus of control has grown to be "one of the most researched variables in

psychology," according to Rotter. The hypothesis of sensation seeking appeals to common

sense. It is simple to recognize that everyone has a different craving for adventure, change, and

excitement. Most of the time, we are aware of how much sensation seeking we are engaging

in, and we can pretty accurately assess how much our friends and family members are engaging

in by looking at the activities they engage in or steer clear of. Seligman has come to the

conclusion that happiness alone cannot fully and deeply define a person's existence. We must

develop our skills and abilities, build strong and meaningful relations with individuals, and

make positive and helpful contributions to the environment around us in order to prosper at this

higher level.
 In conclusion, Taking Control, Taking Chances, and Finding Happiness make up all

the pertinent aspect of facets of personality. To sum it up we have discussed and understand

the importance of each theory and their relations that will ultimately make up as the Facets of

Personality, and how works of Rotter, Zuckerman and Seligman made impact in the world of

psychology.
Reference

SCHULTZ, D. P., & SCHULTZ, S. E. (2016). THEORIES OF PERSONALITY (11th ed.).

CENGAGE LEARNING.

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