The Applied Personality Project requires you to critically analyze personality information found in the popular media in relation to empirical research, personality theory, and your own life. You will demonstrate that you are an intelligent consumer of personality research and can think critically about personality theory, assessment, and research in relation to your daily life.

The Applied Personality Project consists of four components:

Component 1: Summary and Analysis of Popular Media Article or Current Event

You will start by locating a popular media article, video or current event that is relevant to personality psychology. Relevant topics may include personality theory, assessment, use of assessment results, personality disorders, or personality research. Your article or current event must have been published (or occurred) within the last six months. For this component of the assignment, you will use information found in the popular media. This includes articles or events distributed via social media, blogs, videos (e.g., Ted Talks), television shows, newspaper reports, magazines, and similar sources.

For example, the LA Times published a report of identical triplets separated at birth in a secret psychology study to understand the relative influence of nature and nurture in personality development (“The surreal, sad story behind the acclaimed new doc ‘Three Identical Strangers’”; https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-three-identical-strangers-documentary-20180702-story.html). An article such as this would be appropriate for your target article/event.

Provide a two-page summary and analysis of the article/event that addresses the following questions:

• What is the focus of the article/event?
• Why is this article/event relevant now?
• What is the relationship between this article/event and personality psychology?
• What are the key conclusions, questions, or issues relevant to this article/event?
• What questions remain unanswered in relationship to this article/event?

Your summary and analysis should be written as a coherent essay (do not format as a list of answers to these questions). You may include additional insights in your analysis, but you must address these key issues. In addition, you must provide a hyperlink to the article/event that you are focusing on; if the article/event is not online, you must provide a complete citation so that the instructor can view your article/event.

Component 2: Research Article Application

The next step is to find an empirical, primary-source journal article that is relevant to your article/event. Empirical, primary-source articles are original reports of research published in scholarly journals (such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). You will use the UMGC library database to find primary-source, empirical research. To find a relevant article, you will use personality terms, ideas or theories discussed in your article/event as key words in your library database search. It is your responsibility to make sure that the journal article you select is appropriate. If you are unsure about the relevance of your article, contact your instructor for approval.  Articles must meet the following criteria:

• Primary research – Articles should report the results of an original research study (no meta-analyses, summaries, editorials or theoretical articles).
• Refereed – Articles must come from peer-reviewed journals found in the UMGC library.
• Personality focus – Articles must be relevant to personality psychology.
• Recent – Articles must have been published within the last 10 years.

For example, the following would be a relevant primary-source, empirical journal article for investigating the influence of nature and nurture on personality:

McCrae, R. R., Costa, P. T., Jr., Ostendorf, F., Angleitner, A., Hřebíčková, M., Avia, M. D., … Smith, P. B. (2000). Nature over nurture: Temperament, personality, and life span development. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(1), 173–186. https://doi-org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/10.1037/0022-3514.78.1.173

Write a three-page summary, analysis, and application of the journal article that addresses the following questions:

• What is the purpose of this research?
• How did the researchers investigate their research question?
• Are the conclusions of the study appropriate? Has the author overemphasized or under-emphasized any findings?
• What are the key strengths and weaknesses of this study?
• How does this research add to our understanding of personality or personality theory?
• How does this study inform your popular article/event?
• Do the conclusions of this research align with the message of your article/event?

Your summary, analysis, and application should be written as a coherent essay (do not format as a list of answers to these questions). You may include additional insights in your analysis, but you must address these key issues.

Component 3: Connection to Personality Theory

The third step is to analyze your popular article/event in relation to three different theories that we explored throughout the course. For each theory, you will want to explore the relevance (or lack thereof) for understanding your article/event.

Write a one- to two-page analysis for each of your three theories that includes the following information:

• Brief overview of theory (up to two paragraphs with appropriate citations)
• Discussion of how the theory either supports and explains your article/event OR how the theory offers an alternate understanding of your article/event
• Analysis of the value of the theory for understanding personality in the context of your article/event

Component 4: Personal Relevance

The last step is to reflect upon the popular article/event, research, and personality theory in relation to your own life.

Write a three-page reflection and analysis that addresses the following questions:

• How is the material in this article/event relevant to your life?
• What can you learn from the personality theories or research relevant to this article/event?
• Does the article/event or research challenge any of your old opinions? Or does it challenge you to form any new opinions?
• How can you apply what you have learned about personality research or theory to better understand your life? What is the practical value to understanding personality research or theory?
• What concerns do you have about the article/event, personality research, or personality theory?

Your reflections should be written as a coherent essay (do not format as a list of answers to these questions). You may include additional insights in your reflection, but you must address these key issues.

Assignment Guidelines

Prepare your assignment according to the following guidelines:

• Structure your assignment utilizing APA style; this includes title page, headers, subheadings, in-text citations, reference page, and general paper format (1-inch margins, double-spaced, 12-point font, etc.). An abstract is not required.
• Submit as a single document (do not submit each component of the paper separately) in either Microsoft Word, PDF, or RTF format.
• Utilize the following subheadings to organize the body of your paper:
  • Summary and Analysis
  • Research Application
  • Personality Theory
    • Theory 1: (name the theory)
    • Theory 2: (name the theory)
    • Theory 3: (name the theory)
  • Personal Reflection
• Include three to five references (one should be the research article utilized in your analysis).
• Your final paper should be approximately 13 to 16 pages:
  • Title page (1 page)
  • Body of paper
    • Summary and Analysis (2 pages)
    • Research Application (3 pages)
    • Personality Theory
      • Theory 1 (1-2 pages)
      • Theory 2 (1-2 pages)
      • Theory 3 (1-2 pages)
    • Personal Reflection (3 pages)

Multicultural conflict that could occur within your psychology specialization? power point form ?

At some point in your career, you will encounter a multicultural issue. It may be a conflict with a supervisor or a problem with one of your colleagues or clients. You may experience the use of hate speech in the professional work setting or feel marginalized because of one of your cultural identities. A conflict may involve an individual, an entire agency, or an institution.

In this assignment, you will:

• Create a multicultural conflict that could occur within your psychology specialization. The details of this conflict may be drawn from real life or imagined, but the conflict must involve your actual cultural identities, which you analyzed in the Unit 1 assignment, Self-Reflection: Using the Hays ADDRESSING Model. This conflict will involve one or more people you could encounter in your work who have several points of cultural difference with you. An agency, business, or institution could also be part of the conflict.
• Analyze the multicultural issues that are present and consult scholarly literature to develop strategies or techniques that you can use to navigate the conflict. This assignment will help you think critically about uncomfortable situations that you may encounter in your career as a psychologist and prepare you to respond effectively in such situations.

  

  Hays ADDRESSING Model Template

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  COMPLETE ALL AREAS OF THIS TABLE FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT An example of a partially completed table is provided on the next page.
  Cultural Group (according to the ADDRESSING model)	How You Identify	Implications for your work. Consider where you have privilege, and which groups might be easy or difficult to work with.
  A. Age (and generational influences).	Middle age (20s).	I do not like work with teenage ages. I have work with them, but I do not like to.
  D. Disability (developmental).	No developmental disability.	But I do work with children/ adult with disability. It a good learn experience. I have working with children/ adult with disability for about 6 years. Also, my brother is diagnosed with ADHD.
  D. Disability (acquired).	My eyes	Over the years my eyesight has gotten worst. Then this year I found out why, I am prediabetes.
  R. Religion and spiritual identity.	Christianity	I do attend church but from time to time. Mother and father our both Christianity
  E. Ethnicity and racial identity.	African American	My father and mother and our African American descent. My father is Jamaican. I was born in United States.
  S. Socioeconomic status.	Parents was lower-middle-class.	We were poor. My mother had her GED education and my father was label as an immigration which he travels with the horses. As of now I am label as working-class, but I am middle class salary.
  S. Sexual orientation.	Bisexual	I am label as bisexual I like girls and boys. But my family did not accept this at one time but now they do. I was bisexual before I had a child.
  I. Indigenous heritage.	I/’m not sure
  N. National origin.	United states	African American
  G. Gender.	Females	Single, African American woman, parent of 1 child.

  After filling out the table above, review your entries. Then use the space below and respond to the following:

  1. Based on your entries to the table above, evaluate three areas where you have privilege and three areas where you do not (this is also part of the first discussion in this course). Provide examples of each.

  · Three areas where I have privilege is ages, I am in my middle 20s I still have time to learn and grown and to make a different in my community. Gender is a another privilege is because I’m female is hard to be a woman in American also I’m a African American woman but I think is more of a drive for me to do my best as a woman to show I can be on top. Socioeconomic status is another privilege I grown up being poor. I always told myself that I was going to do better than I was raise. I wanted my future children’s to have more than I ever had. I explain the three areas of my privilege but the three area I do worry about is Sexual orientation I do get worry about this because people start to judge you and do not want work with you. I do not want to make nobody uncomforted but when people ask, I do be honestly. Another one is Disability (acquired) as find out that my vison is blur because I have prediabetes is a big deal because usually African American are obesity and have diabetes. So now I am doing everything in my power to lost weight. As I put this one in privilege, I also put this in this area is being a female. As an African American female, we always being judge from our hair, and how we dress. No education and how we have broken households.

  2. Evaluate how your own cultural identities or other factors may possibly influence you to have any biases in relation to others with different cultural identities.

  · I think after I evaluate my own cultural identities, I do think I am biasing a little and I will have to work on that as a person. Put my biasing feeling away as a counselor. Also try to understand the different cultural identities. What might not mean something big in my cultural can mean something big to another cultural.

  3. Analyze the implications your cultural identifications may have on your professional relationships.

  · My cultural identity as an African American may influence my professional relationship with different types of clients. I will not try to undermine other cultural identity. I know notice when I do talk to my clients, they are mostly African American males because I do have a little more empathy for them but at the same time, I am hard on them. I try not to treat them no different. Sometime to opening my clients up with talking I must relate to them and some form of way, this is all a learning process for me.

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