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Self-Confident Personality Type

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The idealized image of the Self-Confident personality type describes persons


Contents


Definition, Synonyms, Analogous

Self-confidence

Definition: Confidence in onself or one's abilities (AHD).

Synonyms: confidence, assurance, self-assurance, self-possession, aplomb (MW, 720).

Analogous: composure, equanimity, sureness, sanguineness (ibid).


Character Strengths and Virtues

Attributes of the idealized self

  1. Self-regard, self-respect, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-belief.
  2. Self-love, self-esteem, dignity.
  3. Ambition, aspiration.
  4. Political prudence, artful management, sagacity, shrewdness, suavity, smoothness, urbanity, diplomacy.
  5. Competitiveness, stamina, resilience.
  6. Magnificence, high-mindedness, stature.
  7. Purposefulness, imagination.
  8. Self-awareness, truthfulness.
  9. Poise, self-possession, self-assurance, self-command, aplomb.


Traits and Behaviors

Strategies to actualize the idealized image

Self-belief, expectation of favorable treatment, ambition, politics, competitiveness, status-seeking, self-idealization, self-awareness, poise.


Passions

Desires/Pleasures

Excessive attachments to limited goods.

"His idealized image, chiefly, is a glorification of the needs which have developed" (Horney, 1950, pg. 277).

being admired, aggrandizement, being special, being unique, status, superior image, superiority, special favors, favorable treatment, prestige, dispensations, privileges, prerogatives, acknowledgment of superiority by others, being above the rules, glory, wealth, position, power, success, ambition, competitiveness.

Fears/Pains

Excessive aversions to limited evils

being scorned, being criticized, being seen as common, being ordinary, being seen as inferior, failure, others not according them admiration and respect.


Beliefs

Dogmas of the private religion

  • I am a special person.
  • I am entitled to special treatment and privileges.
  • I don't need to be bound by the rules that apply to other people.
  • It is important to get recognition, praise, and admiration.
  • Others should respect my status.
  • Other people should satisfy my needs.
  • Other people should recognize how special I am.
  • I should be accorded my due respect and get what I'm entitled to.
  • Other people probably don't deserve the admiration or riches that they get.
  • People should not criticize me.
  • Others' needs should not interfere with my own.
  • Since I am so talented, people should promote my career.
  • Only people as smart as I am understand me.
  • I have good reason to expect grand things.

(Beck, Freeman & associates, 1990, pp. 361-362, modified)


Ego Defense Mechanisms

Self-glorification requires deception.


Self

  1. Self-centered
  2. Believe in themselves
  3. Desire status, image, power
  4. Averse to criticism


Work

  1. Ambitious
  2. Political
  3. Social
  4. Gifted leaders
    • Compete
    • Delegate
    • Motivate


Management Style

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Careers

  1. Performers
  2. Broadcasters
  3. Politicians
  4. Careers where you influence others


Relationships

  1. Good at being loved
  2. Resolution of conflict difficult; without sensitivity little or no reason to:
    • change position
    • sacrifice needs

Parenting

Good model of:

  1. Self-esteem
  2. Ambition
  3. Drive
  4. Self-discipline
  5. Social success

Good/Bad Matches

Good

Bad

Possible



Emotions

  • Temper
  • Envious
  • But controlled
  • Powerful emotions and attraction


Self-Control

  1. Self-Discipline
  2. Self-controlled


Real World

  • The world is their stage.
  • Their vulnerability is grandiosity.


Self-Improvement

Areas that may need improvement

  • Self-examination
  • Seeing yourself as others see you
  • Handling criticism
  • Empathizing
  • Interesting yourself in others

Other Areas of interest


Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder


Noteworthy Examples

Lou Andreas-Salome, Ted Bundy, Neal Cassady, Bill Clinton, Cindy Crawford, Leonardo DiCaprio, Benjamin Franklin, Clark Gable, Paul Gauguin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Joseph Heller, Whitney Houston, Tom Jones, Melanie Klein, Michael Landon, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Bruce Lee, General Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Mann, Jeffrey Masson, Paul McCartney, Henry Miller, Joe Montana, Elvis Presley, Christopher Reeve, Burt Reynolds, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cybill Shepherd, Brooke Shields, O. J. Simpson, Sitting Bull, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Leo Tolstoy, Donald Trump, Richard Wagner, Denzel Washington, Oscar Wilde.


References

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1981, c.1969). William Morris, Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Aaron T. Beck, Arthur Freeman, and Associates (1990). Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders. New York : Guilford Press.

Aaron T. Beck, Arthur Freeman, Denise D. Davis, (2004). Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders. 2nd. edition. New York: Guilford.

Merriam-Webster (1984). Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms with Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris (1995). The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do. New York: Bantam.





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