Read the Passage. Do you agree or disagree, or can you relate to his or her opinion in the post? Can you add any thoughts or additional information that you may have found concerning their topic?
This week, we are learning about our personality development. In reading the required pages for this discussion, Alfred believed that “inferiority feelings are a constant motivating force of all behaviors”(Shultz & Shultz 2017 p. 111) & that everyone’s personality is based on the order in which you were born or if you are the only child. Karen Horney felt that environmental and societal variables, rather than internal elements, were the primary causes of neurosis. She believed that to discover their “true self,” people required warm, supporting settings and solid interpersonal ties(Shultz & Shultz 2017). In Alfred’s theory, one of the things that I can relate to is striving for superiority. As I mentioned before, I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, so the urge toward perfection or completion motivates me to bring wholesomeness to myself.
Furthermore, Alfred spoke that the birth order in which you were born is how you develop your personality. I am last-born, and I’m afraid I have to disagree with his statement. Alfred mentioned, “last-born children, if excessively pampered, would have adjustment problems as adults”(Shultz & Shultz 2017, p. 129). Being the last born, I was the first to quickly adapt to adult life and made adult decisions way before my eighteenth birthday. However, Karen describes the foundation of neurosis as primary anxiety. I have to relate to attaining power and withdrawing, meaning that with everything that I went through as a child, holding my strength, especially in achieving my academic and personal life, I also have a self-protective gear. To give you an example, I’m at only one in my family that moved from Chicago to another state to protect my privacy and achieve success. So when I look back and think about the critical decisions I made to help mold my personality, I think the best one is moving away from people who serve a purpose in my life. Nothing I regret or would want to change to develop my personality cause I have come a long way.
