Random Post #4: Personal Description Report

Personal Description Report

A Picture of my Green Diary

           Writing a diary is an excellent way to get to know who you are. Instead of spitting out your thoughts, slowly writing down on a paper gives you time to think about what you are writing, which is mostly about yourself. I keep a diary that has a green hard cover with no lines. I write like I am talking to this diary. I write my emotions, plans, and goals that I can not tell other people. Since I began to start writing this diary, I got to know about myself as the diary began to be filled with letters. Thus, this “Personal Description Report” is like a diary through which I can know who I am better except I have to analyze myself according to psychologist’s theory.  

           First of all, my personality according to psychoanalytic approach can be explained by Freud’s theory. Often, I try to escape form a situation even if I know I have to go through it. According to Freud, it is because I have a weak ego that can not hold the id. For example, at this school, I have an awkward relationship with a friend. I know that I have to try to talk to her and improve our relationship. However, because I am tired and busy I do not care about our relationship. Plus, I use rationalization, a defense mechanism, to protect myself from anxiety. In school, there are certain rules that we have to follow. Recently, a rule that is not to wear school uniform cloak except Han-bok was created. However, I do not keep this rule by justifying myself that since everybody else doesn’t keep this rule, I do not have to keep it.

           Furthermore, the social-cognitive approach to personality explains the reason of my behavior. I like taking care of other people. I give letters with small presents to people. By doing this I feel happy because I get to know how much I care about that person.  This characteristic can be explained by Bandura’s self-system. My self-system was established by looking at my mother. She also likes to give presents with cards to other people. By seeing my mother do this, I began to follow her which is now what I like to do. Thus, smiling a lot is also what I learned from my mother.

           I did not like writing about myself until high school. Writing about me was very difficult because I did not know who I was. However, entering this school, I had to write club interview papers, introduction to seniors and teachers introducing who I am. Every time I write a new essay, I began to learn more about what I am. Thus, this personal description report helped me learn who I am.