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Vigilant Personality Type

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The idealized image of the Vigilant personality type describes persons


Contents


Definition, Synonyms, Analogous

Vigilant

Definition: On the alert; watchful (AHD)

Synonyms: alert, wide-awake, watchful

Analogous: anxious, agog, keen, avid, eager: circumspect, wary, chary, cautious: quick, ready, prompt: sharp, keen, acute (MW, 860)


Character Strengths and Virtues

  1. Autonomy, independence, self-sufficiency, purposefulness, a sense of themselves, an inner sense of rightness.
  2. Cautiousness, carefulness, prudence, self-restraint, self-control
  3. Attentiveness, anticipation, perceptiveness, awareness, vigilance, concentration, understanding.
  4. Self-defence, bravery, courage, resilience.
  5. Alertness, sensitivity, seriousness, responsibility.
  6. Fidelity, loyalty, protectiveness, sympathy, idealism, zealousness, enthusiasm.


Traits and Behaviors

Autonomy, caution, perceptiveness, self-defense, alertness to criticism, fidelity.


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).

autonomy, trustworthiness of others, loyalty, fidelity, to know the hidden motives of others, the appearance of righteousness, secrecy, privacy, a double life, vigilance, wariness, suspicion, adversaries, enemies, grudges, guiltlessness, shamelessness, authority, superiority, self-sufficiency, independence, control, perfection, withdrawal, self-criticism, being special, isolation

Fears/Pains

Excessive aversions to limited evils

being controlled, subordination, deviousness, deception, treachery, closeness, being covertly manipulated, interference of others, being put down, being discriminated against, secret coalitions formed by others, being undermined or depreciated by others, humiliation, being abused or being taken advantage of, being demeaned, authority/authority figures, those he or she sees as weak, soft, sickly or defective, inferiority, making mistakes, being different from others


Beliefs

(Beck, Freeman & associates, 1990, pp. 362-363)

  • I cannot trust other people.
  • Other people have hidden motives.
  • Others will try to use me or manipulate me if I don't watch out.
  • I have to be on guard at all times.
  • It isn't safe to confide in other people.
  • If people act friendly, they may be trying to use or exploit me.
  • People will take advantage of me if I give them the chance.
  • For the most part, other people are unfriendly.
  • Other people will deliberately try to demean me.
  • Often people deliberately want to annoy me.
  • I will be in serious trouble if I let other people think they can get away with mistreating me.
  • If other people find out things about me, they will use them against me.
  • People often say one thing and mean something else.
  • A person whom I am close to could be disloyal or unfaithful.


Ego Defense Mechanisms

Self-glorification requires deception.


Relationships

Parenting

Good/Bad Matches

Good

Bad

Possible



Self


Work


Management Style

Careers


Real World


Emotions


Self-Control


Self-Improvement

Areas that may need improvement

Other Areas of interest


Disorder

Paranoid Personality Disorder


Noteworthy Examples

Karl Abraham, Alfred Adler, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kevin Bacon, Harold Bloom, Marlon Brando, Sergey Brin, James Carville, Dick Cheney, Calvin Coolidge, Howard Dean, James Dean, Jacques Derrida, Philip K. Dick, Bob Dole, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Matt Drudge, Wayne Dyer, Melissa Etheridge, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Giuliani, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew S. Grove, Alexander Hamilton, L. Ron Hubbard, Oscar Ichazo, Henry James, William James, John A. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Ken Kesey, Jessica Lange, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Manson, John McCain, Joseph McCarthy, Reba McEntire, Steve McQueen, Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, Walter F. Mondale, Henry A. Murray, Benito Mussolini, Richard Nixon, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, John M. Oldham, Bill O'Reilly, George Orwell, Lee Harvey Oswald, Steven Pinker, Vladimir Putin, Thomas Pynchon, Dan Rather, Robert Redford, Julian Rotter, Thomas Szasz, Bob Woodward.


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.

David Shapiro (1965). Neurotic Styles. New York: Basic Books.





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