Thursday, May 05, 2005

In a nutshell

Nervous
  • Tense, high-strung, fearful, inability to concentrate, undue worry, excessive worry about health
  • Vulnerable to noise and time pressure, confused easily, has loss of composure
  • Excessive smoking, eating drinking, and nervous mannerisms; piles up problems
  • Contributes to depression, inability to cope

Depressive
  • Pessimistic, discouraged, dejected, apathetic, despondent, disillusioned
  • Dwells on past problems and misfortunes, and assumes the future will be the same; emotional and physical exhaustion, contemplates suicide
  • Feelings of being unwanted, of not belonging, of being unimportant, of being unappreciated; fearful, easily upset by criticism
  • Easily discouraged due to lack of self-confidence or sense of inferiority
  • Depression tends to damage or destroy the sense of well-being and lowers potential social, scholastic, and job effectiveness; reduces hope, ambition and motivation

Inhibited
  • Restrained, unresponsive or repressed behavior
  • Inability to express tender feelings

Objective
  • Fair-minded, reasonable and logical
  • Able to be analytical, impartial, dispassionate and not to be overly introspective or preoccupied with internal doubts and fears

Dominant
  • Confident, assertive and competitive
  • Ego-strength, in the sense of self-assurance, confidence and leadership
  • Able to influence others, or the desire to influence or change the thinking of others
  • Shows initiative; to be firm, definite, emphatic; to be competitive; to speak in public and enjoy the challenge of a debate; and to stand up for one's rights

Hostile
  • Critical, argumentative and punitive
  • Tendency to be critical, thoughtless or overtly inconsiderate
  • Inclination to be impatient, sarcastic, angry, argumentative, unreasonable; as well as the existence of hostile attitudes or reactions to others, an intolerance of weakness in others, and a superior, overbearing attitude and manner


That's right. Don't mess with me.




But the good news is that my CDs came yesterday. Fun!

5 comments:

kimmie said...

And I thought I was in a good mood when I took that personality test..... ;)

Mark Schwarz said...

:) Me too! Wanna go on a date?

Anonymous said...

Wow . . . Mark, I might delay that date if I were you . . .

What test was this???

Anonymous said...

that doesn't sound much like you to me... not enough of the nice stuff. it actually sounds more like me - scary.

have fun on your date!

kimmie said...

Yeah, I was pretty amused about the results. I'll post again today about my moment of clarity.... :)