Understanding Your Child's Future Through Personality Traits
Understanding how personality traits can indicate a child's future. Explores MBTI types, factors influencing a child's personality, and the importance of parents in shaping their child's character.
Title: Understanding Your Child's Future Through Personality Traits
If you believe that character determines destiny, then can we know our child's future destiny through personality tests? The MBTI personality test is very popular online. At first, I didn't quite understand what it meant and had to research it. MBTI is a forced-choice, self-reported personality assessment test. Forced-choice means answering questions with two or more options. Self-reported means answering test questions based on your own feelings, behaviors, and attitudes.
The test was designed by American psychologists Katharine Cook Briggs and her psychologist daughter Isabel Briggs Myers based on Swiss psychologist Carl Jung's psychological type theory and their long-term observation and research on human personality differences. MBTI divides people's personalities into four dimensions: energy orientation (extroverted E - introverted I), perception of the world (sensing S - intuitive N), judgment of things (thinking T - feeling F), and attitude towards life (judging J - perceiving P). Through different combinations of these four dimensions, 16 different personality types can be divided, each with its unique characteristics, advantages, and weaknesses.
There are three types of personalities that parents like and hope their children have. The first type is the most 'potentially wealthy': ENTJ (Commander), INTJ (Strategist), and ESTP (Challenger). The second type is the most 'successful in career': ENTJ (Commander), INTJ (Strategist), and ESTJ (Manager). The third type is the most 'entrepreneurial': ENTP (Debater), INTJ (Strategist), and ISTP (Connoisseur).
However, is this too mysterious? Personality formation is a complex process involving many factors, including genetic inheritance and environmental influences such as family environment and parental education. As of now, there is no scientific research to determine whether nature or nurture has a greater proportion.
There are several important factors that affect a child's personality. The first and most important factor is parents. Parental education methods, behavior, communication styles, and their own words and deeds have a huge impact on a child's personality. For example, the 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua's strict education had different effects on her two daughters.
The second factor is classmates. Classmate influence, especially during adolescence, is significant. It includes social skills, self-confidence, behavior imitation, ability to cope with setbacks, and expansion of interests and hobbies.
The third factor is culture. The influence of culture on a child's personality is subtle. Once it is formed, it is difficult to change.
In conclusion, I believe that character has an impact on destiny. Although some factors affecting a child's personality are beyond our control, as parents, we can play an important role in shaping our child's personality.