Personality_Examinat.docx Personality Examination Reflection PSY/405 Personality Examination Reflection The primary assumption of the humanistic (commonly known today as positive psychology) approach is that peopl
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Personality_Examinat.docx Personality Examination Reflection PSY/405 Personality Examination Reflection The primary assumption of the humanistic (commonly known today as positive psychology) approach is that people strive toward meaning, growth, well-being, happiness, and psychological health (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2018).  Psychologist Carl Rogers explained that people have an instinctive desire to achieve self-actualization by aligning their actual self and their ideal self. The actual self is the representation of the attributes that you believe you possess. Meanwhile, the ideal self is a representation of the attributes you ideally possess. This paper will reflect on my personal social media behavior using the concepts of Carl Rogers™ personality theory to explain how it may have developed. The Problem with Social Media Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. These virtual communities are better known as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter etc.We are conditioned to project our best, albeit unrealistic, selves on our social media profiles as a modern way of virtually keeping up with the Joneses(Sunstrum, 2018). The reason for this is simple... we can be who we want to be. We choose to portray the parts of our lives that we believe people deserve to see. This is what we are expected to do. It becomes a vicious circle of taking selfie after selfie until we . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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