Personality and Emotions Assessment: A Student Study Essay

This essay presents a comprehensive self-assessment of a student's personality and emotional intelligence, focusing on their impact within a workplace context. The student analyzes their scores from various assessments, including the PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), Habitual Emotion Regulation, and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire. The analysis reveals a moderate positive affect and high negative affect, linked to an introverted nature and communication challenges. The essay further explores habitual emotion regulation, highlighting tendencies towards expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, alongside a low authentic expression. The student also examines their results on the Berkeley Expressivity Test, demonstrating a negative expressivity and low impulse strength. The essay concludes with an analysis of STEM and STEU results, reflecting an average understanding of situational emotions. The student identifies communication and self-confidence as key areas for improvement, emphasizing the need for increased expressiveness, initiative, and improved relationships with colleagues to enhance their emotional intelligence and overall workplace performance. The essay provides recommendations for fostering a more positive and productive work environment.

Running head: STUDY ESSAY ON PERSONALITY AND EMOTIONS ASSESSMENT
STUDY ESSAY ON PERSONALITY AND EMOTIONS ASSESSMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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The personality of an individual defines the activity, thinking and living style of the
individual. The emotional behaviour of an individual highly affects the organisational
behaviour of that person. The capacity to understand the emotion and manage it in an
appropriate manner is called emotion management. A balanced emotional behaviour in work
place can be beneficial in many ways such as proper collaboration among employees, happy
and co-ordinated employees (Wilson, 2018). Inability in managing emotions has affected
human life in many ways including the workplace. Emotion management includes various
aspects like self-awareness, motivation, self-management, empathy. Depending on these
aspects, the emotion management capacity of an individual can be determined. In work place,
emotional intelligence often makes the working easier for a person. A well-balanced
emotional management, leads to proper expressing and managing, understanding,
solving problems under pressure and maintaining a good relation in workplace
(Kobayashi, 2018). Emotional behaviour can be assessed with various tools. The essay will
include a complete study of my emotions assessment affecting my behaviour in workplace. It
also contains the required recommendations that will help me to find a better scope in work
place.
The essay will broadly show my emotional assessment on negative and positive
emotion, Habitual Emotion Regulation, Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire and emotional
intelligence. I have scored 30 out of 50 in positive affect and 31 in negative affect in PANAS.
This shows that I have a moderate positive affect and high negative affect in my work place. I
have a moderate inter personal relationship with my colleagues in the work place. I have a
positive attitude and interest towards my work place but it can be enhanced and increases to a
stage where I will maintain a high positive behaviour towards my work. A moderate positive
behaviour helps to achieve good production but if it is continued for long, it might decrease
the work quality (Dutton & Ragins, 2017). This attitude towards work is not bad but if it is

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continued then there might be chances for my positive attitude to drop. I have to work on it
make it a high positive affect if I want to rise high in my job field. The behaviour that is
existing in me currently might become dull in future and have an adverse affect in my career.
Being a professional person, I must consider the positivity of my workplace and increase my
interest towards my work. The essay also says I have a high negative affect. The main reason
for my negative affect is my introvert nature. I am often stuck with myself thinking too much
about what others might think. The scope of expressing my views, sharing my ideas or
talking to my mates is very less, as I am very less interactive in my work field. Even though I
try to give my best output in my work production but at times I face a lot of problems due to
lack of communication. This is a major problem and can affect my career too. Lack of
communication can lead a lot of confusion and misunderstanding in workplace (Unsworth,
Dmitrieva & Adriasola, 2013). The required changes that I might have made were to increase
my communication skills and interact with my co-workers. I must actively co-operate with
my co-workers so that even when I am facing some issues related to my work I might get the
same co-operation from their side. Thus, to create a high positive emotion affect I must
change my introvert nature and try to communicate and build a bond with my co-workers.
The second emotion test was done on habitual regulations; it included expressive
suppression, cognitive reappraisal, and authentic expression. My results showed that I
have high cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression but a low authentic expression. I
have a tendency to suppress my feelings and problems from others and that is reflected in my
survey result. A conscious sense always works in me of disturbing others by sharing my
problem, the person might not be disturbed yet the sense works in me. I am aware of my
faults and drawbacks and sometimes I try to fight back them but most of the time the
introvert nature in me binds me from communicating with other. Even when I know, where I
have to makes changes I am unable to do so. My work production is highly affected due to

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this drawback, however, my self-consciousness sometimes rectifies the mistake and
encourages me to sort the matter. Most of the time I am unable to resolve this problem
leading to a low productivity scale. This can negatively affect my career, as work field
requires clarity and high productivity. If I do not change my habit of being self centred and
expressive suppression, I might face a lot issues in the long run. I have a low score in
authentic expression that is I am unable to express my views and issues with others. There are
many issues faced by us in our daily life, the only way to resolve them is to sort them either
by discussing or by taking an action (Cooper & Marshall, 2013). In such cases I am often
unable to react or share with anyone and feel stressed out in work place. This not only affects
my behaviour but also my productivity. I am unable to respond to any problem or unethical
respond from any one in work place. According to (Venkataramani, Labianca & Grosser,
2013) reaction always reduces the stress, if a person is unable to react that might hamper their
health. Thus, if I have to improve my emotional strength in workplace I must improve my
expressing authenticity and reduce my suppressing nature.
The next test was The Berkeley Expressivity test. The result has again shown a high
negative expressivity and a low positive expressivity towards work life. It has also shown a
low result for impulse strength. The test has again shown my negative approach towards
work life. This does not mean I do not have an interest towards my work but it is a reflection
of my introvert nature and less communicative behavior in my work place. The output that I
give in work place is often denied or failure due lack of clarity. The main cause for rejections
in work is mostly due to lack of understanding and misconceptions, which can be easily
cleared by co-operation of co-workers or seniors (Schutte & Loi, 2014). Due to my lack of
expressivity and approaches, I could not understand the requirement and lead to failure. The
survey also shows a low positive expressivity, the primary for this result is not my lack of
interest in work life but my introvert nature. Often I am uncomfortable with my co-workers

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and unable to mix with them as a result I feel left out and isolated in the work area. I have a
low impulse strength, which means the push for an initiative, or responsibility is lacking in
me. Even when I am interested for something I am unable to achieve it due lack of
expressivity and impulse strength. The need for raising a voice or standing for a change is
never present in me, even if I am interested for it. Thus, if I have to change this issue I must
take initiative myself, take responsibilities and express my view for any incidents happening
around me. This will not only increase my impulse strength but will also increase my interest
towards work life.
The last test was done on STEM – the Situational Test of Emotion Management
and STEU – the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding. My STEM is similar to the
US college student with a result of 0.529205 and my STEU result is similar to the Australian
psychology university student with a result of 0.70833. The study shows that I have an
average knowledge about managing and understanding the situational emotions and that is
true in general. The basic issue that affects my behavior is the lack of communication and
self-confidence. Many times, I feel that I could have taken the responsibility and achieved the
goal but my lack of confidence never allows me to do so. I can understand my management
skills are my strength and I have a better scope in future with them but once again, the
communication issue stops me from reaching there. Being an increased self-aware person, I
realize my drawbacks and faults, yet the initiative is never taken by me. I have analyzed the
mistake that I generally make in work environment yet I am unable to rectify them. The essay
also says I have scored well in emotional understanding and thus it can be helpful to me to
rectify my mistake. This particular test has increased my confidence level for making a
change in my emotional behavior in work place. The test has clearly shown my capability to
become interactive and expressive in work life. The management potentiality in me will help
me to change myself and become more flexible in work life.

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Thus to conclude the test has highlighted my drawbacks in emotion management in
work place. The test clearly shows how my introvert nature, low positivity, high negativity,
lack of expressivity is affecting my work life. It is not only affecting my relation with my co-
workers but also affecting the productivity in my work. The desired result in my work is not
up to the mark due to lack of communication and clarity. My scopes in future are being
narrowed due to lack of communication and relation with my co-workers. Today’s work
environment requires a lot of team activity and co-ordination for a better outcome, which
lacks in me. I am unable to co-ordinate and co-operate with my co-workers and thus my work
quality and productivity is hampered. The required changes have also been mentioned in the
essay. If I increase my communication with my teammates and co-workers then there will be
a scope of interest in work life. I must maintain a good relation with the workers to maintain
a clarity in my work and if required I can also seek help from them. This will improve my
work quality and productivity. I should also be more expressive in work field, as I am unable
to express my feeling often I feel suffocated and stressed with work. This stress can be a
serious threat to my health and in later future; it will reduce the work motivation in me
leading to quit the job. Whereas, this is not a permanent solution to my problem, changing the
work will not increase my interest towards work. I have to create a comfortable environment
to sustain my work life. Thus, if I keep these facts in mind and make necessary changes in me
I believe I will prosper more in my work life.

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Cooper, C. L., & Marshall, J. (2013). Occupational sources of stress: A review of the
literature relating to coronary heart disease and mental ill health. In From Stress to
Wellbeing Volume 1 (pp. 3-23). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Dutton, J. E., & Ragins, B. R. (Eds.). (2017). Exploring positive relationships at work:
Building a theoretical and research foundation. Psychology Press.
Kobayashi, I. (2018). 20 Keys to workplace improvement. Routledge.
Schutte, N. S., & Loi, N. M. (2014). Connections between emotional intelligence and
workplace flourishing. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 134-139.
Unsworth, K. L., Dmitrieva, A., & Adriasola, E. (2013). Changing behaviour: Increasing the
effectiveness of workplace interventions in creating pro‐environmental behaviour
change. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(2), 211-229.
Venkataramani, V., Labianca, G. J., & Grosser, T. (2013). Positive and negative workplace
relationships, social satisfaction, and organizational attachment. Journal of applied
psychology, 98(6), 1028.
Wilson, F. M. (2018). Organizational behaviour and work: a critical introduction. Oxford
University Press.

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Appendix:
PANAS POSITIVE EMOTIONS: 30
PANAS NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: 31
COGNTIVE REAPRAISAL: 5.833333333333333
EXPERSSIVE SUPPRESSION: 5.25
EXPRESSIVITY: 2
IMPULSE STRENGTH: 3.5
NEGATIVE EXPRESSIVITY: 1.8333333333333333
POSITIVE EXPRESSIVITY: 4.25
STEM: 0.529205
STEU: 0.7083333333333334