I was recently on a conference call with people talking bout coronavirus, their feelings and their coping strategies. I started to think about the link between personality and behaviour and wondered if there are some generalities we can learn and some prescriptions we can offer.
PERSONALITIES
At its most simple we can consider William Moulton Marstons DISC model and perhaps look at peoples disc profile (Dominance (D), Inducement (I), Submission (S), and Compliance (C)) and then examine their habits, feelings and strategies.
Dominance
Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
Behaviours - Sees the big picture - Can be blunt - Accepts challenges - Gets straight to the point
Influence
Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships
Behaviours - Shows enthusiasm - Is optimistic - Likes to collaborate - Dislikes being ignored
Steadiness
Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability
Behaviours - Doesn't like to be rushed - Calm manner - Calm approach - Supportive actions
Conscientiousness
Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency
Behaviours - Enjoys independence - Objective reasoning - Wants the details - Fears being wrong
This seems a simpler model than MBTI. The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives, but with 16 combinations although apparently more sophisticated it possibly does not lend itself to a survey.
THE SURVEY
In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi book Flow: Living at the Peak of your Abilities he described how he used a pager (this was the 1980s) at different times of the day to get people to fill in a sheet detailing what they were doing and how they were feeling at that time.
This seems to be far more objective than completing an end-of-day or end-of-week assessment where the ebbs and flows even-out or are even forgotten. Life sometimes is about the details, single moments of significance, of activity and habit throughout the day rather than the overall 24 hours in the day.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PARTICIPATE?
I would like to run an anonymous survey along similar lines during the Coronavirus period to examine patterns or behaviour and feelings in the context of events. At different times of the day (not too often!) people will be invited to complete a very simple form or very few questions.
I am interested that PERSON555 did this, or that, or felt happy or sad or over a period of doing x every day found that they felt differently. I do not need to know who PERSON555 is but in order to see patterns I would want that person to retain the same identifier for each submission.
I think I would need at least 20 and ideally 100 people to participate over at least one week, and ideally 10 weeks to see patterns, correlation and changes. Would you be interested in participating?
The commitment would involve a short questionnaire to find out about PERSON555 (age, gender, social background, health, education and personality) and then the daily updates (perhaps 1 or 2 per day at different times on different days). This could easily be done using a webpage for people to complete a form (no email or login which would identify you). You simply give your ID which is chosen by you (sayGOREY22, or Gemini1980) and use that each time you compete the form.
PUBLISHED RESULTS
If there are enough people and there is enough data I would be happy to publish the anonymised data in its raw form, as well as my own thoughts and observations.
GET IN TOUCH
If you want to get in touch just email me, particularly if you would like to participate in the design of the survey or the review of the results.
If you want to participate anonymously come back to this page in a couple of days time and I will include the link to the form in the comments. You can simply click on the link, complete the form, and nobody need know who you are.
LINKS AND REFERENCES
disc
https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/overview/
mbti
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/home.htm?bhcp=1
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi book Flow: Living at the Peak of your Abilities
https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Living-Peak-Your-Abilities/dp/B00RVRICW8
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