Main characteristics
This type of temperament is also called affective, because a person seems to be balancing on the brink of happiness and all-consuming anxiety. His mood constantly fluctuates, and even minor events can plunge him into despair and deep sadness, as well as into unbridled joy.
He is very attached to his close people, devoted to them and sincerely shares their sorrows and pleasant moments.
He is usually interested in art, sports, and music. In general, everything that can captivate and take your breath away. For this reason, there are often cases when exalted individuals end up in sects and become overly religious, that is, practically fanatics.
Difficulties arise when there are failures. If on her way she meets people or animals who need help, she will worry for a long time until she is sure that everything is okay with them. She may even fall into despair, experiencing disappointment at how unfair and cruel the world is.
Naturally, such a reaction to any irritant has an extremely negative impact on overall well-being. For this reason, individuals with affectively exalted character accentuation usually have poor health.
Their nervous system is exhausted, because almost every minute they have to cope with stress. The body does not have time to restore the resources spent on emotions and tension, and then other organs and systems malfunction.
They are not entirely able to cope with life’s tasks; they need so-called guardians, people who will help them and also share responsibility for something.
How do hysteroids interact with others?
The conflict personality of the demonstrative type is characterized by its extremes: if you praise it and approve of its actions, you can become one of your closest friends, but if you cross the road, try to compete or demonstrate your hostility, you risk ending up on the “black list.”
Further developments will depend on the person’s upbringing and his desire to suppress negative qualities in himself.
Yes, there are people whose willpower is stronger than illnesses or accentuations, but this is very rare.
If you notice traits of a demonstrative type in your interlocutor, it is better to warn yourself and future relationships.
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Resources and limitations
The advantages are that such people are easy to cheer up and delight, even if just a minute ago they were sitting gloomier than a cloud.
This greatly simplifies life, because otherwise they would “fall out” into depression, plunging into sadness, as if into a swamp from which it is almost impossible to get out.
They usually talk a lot and loudly, attracting attention to themselves. They love animals and are touched by every living creature on the planet that they meet along the way.
They are friendly, altruistic, but there are those in their lives whom they sincerely hate with all their souls. They are practically incapable of offending another, but at the same time they can show excessive cruelty towards the enemy.
For example, they will simply pass by indifferently, even if he begs for help. While a stranger who finds himself in difficult life circumstances may be given his last.
How does repression manifest itself?
In people with a demonstrative personality type, repression is so developed that they can wishful thinking, often resorting to lies, but they themselves do not realize this. That is, if you put them on a detector, it will confirm the veracity of the words.
Some representatives of the hysteroid type can even repress physical pain and suppress the unconditioned reflex.
But in any case, all forgotten unpleasant moments necessarily went through the process of awareness.
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Professional activity
Exalted individuals are quite artistic, so they achieve success in creative professions. For example, they make excellent actors, musicians, artists, designers, poets, and so on.
They attract people with their responsiveness, sincerity and originality, so to speak, with their subtle spiritual organization. After all, it is much more interesting to spend time with a person who is easy to delight than with someone around whom you don’t understand how to behave at all. Is not it?
They also have excellent taste, apparently due to their passion for everything beautiful. Only they are able to quit things without finishing them, only because something else fascinated them more, or they were disappointed and now see no point in continuing.
The team tries to avoid conflicts, or at least do not provoke them. They cannot stand rudeness, so they do not stay long in places where there are authoritarian and tough leaders.
They need space for self-expression, and not clear boundaries that should never be crossed. Only by experiencing freedom and acceptance are they able to accomplish great things. Indeed, among exalted individuals there are often geniuses and simply gifted people.
When the mood is good, she works like a bee, tirelessly. But if you get even a little upset, such a person will become unable to concentrate on the tasks at hand. Everything will fall out of his hands and generally not work out.
Because of this, the business suffers if he is its leader or owner. Making deals and negotiating based on your mood is not the best way to achieve success.
Sometimes rationality and an unemotional approach to business are important. Which, unfortunately, is an unattainable character trait for him.
Egocentrism is the main trait of the demonstrator
What do hysteroids talk about most often? About yourself, about your life, about achievements, preferences. They remember other people in passing or by comparing them to themselves (“Her voice is as slow as mine,” “Her dress is very similar to mine, only short, blue, with patterns...”, etc. - in fact, this thing can be completely different).
They do not miss the opportunity to advertise themselves or provoke their interlocutor to praise them. You may not like a person at all, but at some point you catch yourself thinking that you are showering him with compliments. If you are a non-conflict person, then such a reaction is absolutely natural.
If you are not used to hiding your dissatisfaction, then the interlocutor of a demonstrative type will perceive this as a threat, and the repression mechanism will immediately work.
Relationship
As already mentioned, this accentuation is too sensitive, which is why partners usually have no time to be bored in relationships.
Such people are amorous, passionate and romantic. Frequent mood swings prevent you from relaxing and experiencing peace and satisfaction in contact with them. Which is impossible to predict, and, moreover, to somehow contain or control.
But bright, sincere feelings directed towards lovers make it possible to turn a blind eye to all the above shortcomings.
Those who so lack attention and care, loud declarations of love. For those who strive for dramatic relationships, violent quarrels and reconciliations, the affectively exalted type is ideal.
If the partner decides to end the relationship, he may become intrusive. Believing that you have the power to return everything to its place and make you fall in love with yourself again. This simply requires a lot of effort.
In general, not everyone is able to withstand frequent mood swings, which is why exalted people are mostly lonely, especially in old age.
The teenage period is difficult, since girls and boys at that age suffer from unrequited love.
They may even refuse to eat, losing their appetite due to anxiety. They cry into their pillows at night and don’t want to communicate with anyone, reacting sharply to any attempts to provide them with support.
Positive traits
People with a demonstrative type of character perform well in professions in the “person-to-person” sphere. This is due to their ability to play a role. They know how to masterfully adapt to those on whom their future fate will depend: bosses, important clients, spectators. Hysteroids are excellent at mastering the acting profession and perform well as service personnel.
Representatives of this accentuation know how to adapt to any client: they behave with restraint with a choleric person, and actively with a phlegmatic person. They need approval, but also know that the path to it will not be easy.
The demonstrative personality type manifests itself well in family relationships, because it knows how to adapt to a partner, suppress and resolve conflicts.
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Recommendations
- Practice meditation to learn how to achieve peace and tranquility. Your nervous system needs to be calm at least sometimes. Otherwise, there is a high risk of developing any mental disorders. Most often, phobias arise, which bring a lot of difficulties and troubles into everyday life. And insomnia due to strong emotions is also extremely dangerous to health.
- Try to avoid communicating with authoritarian, dictatorial people. Considering your impressionability and vulnerability, such contacts will not be beneficial at all.
- Learn to stop yourself in situations where you feel like you are losing control of yourself. Or rather, over your emotions. Use the breathing techniques outlined in this article to calm yourself. And when anxiety, restlessness, or even excessive joy arise, inhale and exhale on a count. And when you stabilize your condition, then make decisions so as not to make mistakes due to impulsiveness.
Hysteroids in childhood
A striking example of a demonstrative personality type can be considered “exemplary” students. At an early age, hysterical people are often teachers’ favorites, because they do pranks on the sly, and if their actions come out, then teachers don’t attach much importance to them—it doesn’t happen to anyone. They responsibly follow all the instructions of adults, because their status and future fate depend on their approval or censure. But an “exemplary” student does not miss the opportunity to set his peers up. He only remembers ethical standards in public.
In adolescence, hysterics strive for leadership. If for some reason they cannot influence children, they join the “stars” of the class or school and quickly gain a feeling of sympathy and trust. Next, they strive to conquer students in order to have power over them and “feed off” with praise.
If the owners of this accentuation lack the necessary leadership qualities, they compensate for this with a diplomatic approach: they choose influential individuals and talk to each individual individually, often filling the conversation with subtle slander. After a simple procedure, the normal psychological climate collapses, the members of the young team begin to distrust each other, but trust in the demonstrator remains. While they rethink the “truth” they recently heard and look askance at each other, the hysteric takes power into his own hands and remains the only link. This method is used by him in adult life.
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What is a conflict personality in psychology
The conflict nature of a personality is understood as its integral property, reflecting the frequency of entering into interpersonal disagreements. With high levels of conflict, the individual becomes a constant initiator of tense relationships with others, regardless of whether this is preceded by problematic situations. Psychologists are sure that without conflicts the development of a person and personality is impossible. Each of us develops a huge number of mistakes, ideas, shortcomings, aspirations, and behavior patterns throughout our lives. As a result, in order to be in relative harmony with others, it is worth learning to come to a compromise within yourself and on the basis of interpersonal relationships.
Personality and conflict have always been of interest to scientists. In the middle of the last century, a new discipline arose - conflictology, that is, it is a science that studied the patterns of the origin, development and completion of conflicts. At the end of the 70s, a need arose for conflict management practices and psychological training aimed at teaching behavior in conflict interactions. At this time, the GRID (Gradual and Reciprocal Initiatives to Reduce Tension) technique arose, which is now actively used by politicians in resolving international conflicts.
Experts note that identifying a conflict-prone personality in society is not difficult. Their main feature is that they try to impose their opinion on their interlocutor. Such people are firmly convinced that they are ideal in all respects and are not even aware of their own shortcomings.
It is difficult for ordinary people to find a common language with such interlocutors, so they strive to find a way out and reach a compromise. It is easier for a person in conflict to endure a state of confrontation, since he has a reduced level of sensitivity.
Conflict-prone people, as a rule, are very cowardly and do not get into fights
Important! A person with conflict is in an extremely tense state if the atmosphere in the team is comfortable. When solving a particular problem, he often resorts to intimidation, sometimes even violence.
People with conflict are difficult interlocutors to communicate with, constantly looking for support in society, and approve of conflict situations. L. Grebennikov and E. Romanova give the following characteristics to such people:
- Deviant behavior. It is possessed by a person who loves conflicts and behaves in a group in a completely different way from what is customary in a particular sociocultural environment.
- Conflict. This quality is typical for people with poor health. Analysis of statistical data showed that children and adolescents with deviant behavior most often suffer from vegetative-vascular pathologies. It should also be noted that an increased level of conflict is typical for patients with neuroses and psychopathy.
Conflict-free personality type
Examples
Many figures of modern show business and actors are prominent representatives of the hysterical personality type, especially those who do not hesitate to shock the audience. One can say more: a demonstrative type of accentuation must be present in the character of public people.
Among the characters in Soviet children's cartoons are the parrot Kesha (“Return of the Prodigal Parrot”) and Carlson.
In the comedy “The Inspector General” N.V. Gogol also describes a classic representative of the demonstrative type - Khlestakov.
Causes and clinical examples of demonstrative personality type
The demonstrative or stuck type of personality is one of the character accentuations, which is characterized by egocentrism, a thirst for recognition, and a desire to be in the center of everyone's attention.
A demonstrative personality is prone to posing and performing actions designed to produce an external effect.
Psychiatry and psychology can consider such pronounced accentuations of character as a personality disorder requiring psychotherapeutic correction.
The theory of accentuated personalities was first proposed by K. Leonhard in 1968; subsequently, other scientists and psychologists continued to study this issue, proposing new methods for diagnosing accentuations and their detailed characteristics.
The method for identifying accentuated character traits, developed by Leonhard, includes a number of questions, from the answers to which one can draw a conclusion about the patient’s personality type. A revised and expanded test was also proposed by another psychologist A. Lichko.
Both questionnaires are widely used in modern psychology, and although the names of personality types vary, the general characteristics remain unchanged.
Thus, a stuck personality according to Leonhard corresponds to a personality of a paranoid or paranoid type according to Lichko, a demonstrative type is equated to a hysterical one, a pedantic type to an asthenic type, etc.
Main manifestations
Accentuations are an extreme expression of a normal personality, causing a predisposition to the occurrence of various psychosomatic pathologies.
Considering the personality characteristics of the demonstrative type, it can be noted that there are other accentuations that are largely similar in their manifestations.
If we generalize them, then we can talk about such a concept as an antisocial personality, which to one degree or another includes:
- Demonstrative personality. Characterized by a constant desire to be in the center of attention, a tendency to fantasize, and eccentricity. The feelings of such people are often superficial and lack depth, but this does not prevent them from getting along with others quite easily. Among individuals with a demonstrative character, creative individuals predominate, easily changing their interests and hobbies;
- Pedantic personality. The main features here are punctuality, suspiciousness, and increased anxiety. Often such people are characterized by altruistic manifestations, adherence to principles, and determination;
- Stuck personality. Such individuals are characterized by a concentration on some mono-idea, authoritarianism, a tendency to form delusional ideas, and have a fairly high self-esteem;
- Excitable personality type. Such people, perhaps, can be more classified as antisocial individuals, since they are characterized by sudden outbursts of aggression, anger, and a tendency to unpredictable, often inappropriate actions, which they themselves explain by the incorrect behavior of others.
An antisocial personality disorder may represent a personality disorder that constitutes the so-called “marginal” group, approaching psychosis and affective disorders.
An antisocial personality, as a separate type of accentuation, is characterized by a tendency to immoral and even criminal acts, and rejection of generally accepted norms and rules. Such people literally contrast public morality with their own morality.
A personality of this type can be called conflicting, since any events and actions of others are perceived by her exclusively in a negative way.
The demonstrative or stuck personality type is interesting because it equally contains both positive and negative aspects.
Thus, under favorable conditions, a person develops a positive character, and under the influence of various negative factors, a negative one.
The advantage of this type of character is undoubtedly that a person tries by any means to surpass those around him, which means he achieves really high results in various areas of his life.
When hysterical traits predominate, a person, on the contrary, may experience extreme complacency for no apparent reason.
Paranoid individuals, as a rule, do not have such an ability for self-hypnosis, and therefore they have to seek recognition from others for real actions and achievements. However, such ambition often turns into a negative trait.
An antisocial personality has a similar feature, who responds to any public protest with aggression and hostility.
Possible reasons
Antisocial personality, like other personality types, usually begins to develop in childhood. Scientists were able to find out that a certain role in this process belongs to heredity, as well as to the methods of education that were adopted in the family.
Often too strict, authoritarian upbringing with increased demands on the child contributes to the formation of an excitable, demonstrative or conflict-ridden personality.
Contradictory upbringing can have an equally detrimental effect on a child’s psyche, when parents themselves cannot find a common language with each other and adhere to different approaches to education.
Establishing the reasons that led to the formation of one or another character accentuation is important for carrying out effective correction.
Psychotherapeutic influence is not always necessary, but only in cases where certain character traits are so pronounced that they prevent the individual from interacting normally in society.
We should also not forget that the predominance of demonstrative or other traits can contribute to the development of certain psychopathological conditions.
Clinical examples
To consider in more detail how demonstrative accentuation can lead to the formation of a positive or negative character, we can consider real examples that took place in the clinical practice of psychologists and psychotherapists.
So, consider the example of Mr. B., born at the beginning of the 20th century into a wealthy bourgeois family. His mother was distinguished by a calm, quiet disposition, his father was the owner of a large enterprise and was considered a fair, purposeful person. B himself
From a young age, he was distinguished by the ambition characteristic of all demonstrative personalities; he reacted very sharply to any criticism or low grades. He graduated with honors and quickly moved up the career ladder, standing out for his erudition and energy.
It is worth noting that this man not only made high demands on those around him, but also served as an example to follow. Throughout his life, and especially after the First World War, B.
More than once he had to start everything from scratch, but difficulties only gave him even greater determination, and he achieved the highest positions not thanks to his acquaintances, but due to his own achievements.
Thus, until adulthood, B.’s accentuated character played exclusively into his hands, but in old age, negative sides also appeared.
At the age of sixty, having lost his former authority, he began to show hostility towards his superiors and younger employees, and to acutely feel injustice towards himself.
Now the traits of a stuck demonstrative personality encourage him only to fruitless confrontation with his superiors and more successful colleagues.
As another example, consider a musician who, as a child, did not show much interest in studying, but was interested in playing the violin.
Thanks to his ambition, this man built a brilliant career, although he constantly had clashes with leaders and never agreed to make even minimal concessions. All this forced the talented musician to constantly change jobs.
As a result of such emotional overload, at the age of fifty he developed professional neurosis. This suggests that ambition in this case, even in the most successful years, could not always compensate for sensitivity and excitability.
Both subjects were not mentally ill, although both had signs of incipient psychopathology.
Diagnostics and correction
A demonstrative, pedantic, excitable or otherwise accentuated personality can be identified using special tests and questionnaires. Treatment is usually carried out using psychotherapeutic techniques, which are selected individually.
The main goal of the therapeutic course is to teach the patient to use his character traits for good, to control his own behavior and emotions.
Systematic conversations can be held with the patient, forming a clear idea that the best and most reliable way to attract the attention and recognition of others is socially useful activity.
It is important to understand that a person with a demonstrative type of character, who has not developed a single useful, interesting skill, can turn into an antisocial, hysterical person. This can be prevented by identifying such accentuations from childhood and adolescence and carrying out appropriate corrective work with predisposed individuals.
Source: https://ODepressii.ru/narusheniya/lichnosti/demonstrativniy-tip.html
How to interact with a hysteroid?
If you are not part of the circle of reference personalities of the hysteroid, you are not his boss, then you can immediately classify yourself as his enemies. He sees ill-wishers, rivals and competitors everywhere. Creating conflict situations and inflaming passions brings special pleasure, as does the process of confrontation itself.
There are two answers to the question of how to interact with a demonstrative type in a moment of conflict:
- ignore, abstract as much as possible, demonstrate steadfastness, complete calm;
- show more aggression.
To protect yourself from future conflicts, you need to know the little secret of how to communicate with a demonstrative personality type: flatter! If you can’t praise from the heart, then find in a representative of this accentuation several positive qualities that you would like to develop in yourself, and imitate them. In this case, sincerity will not be feigned - that’s it. You will learn something new - that's two. Make your fellow hysterical person feel significant and important, which will prevent conflict - that's three.
Communication with the owner of a demonstrative personality type requires the interlocutor to have mental stability and emotional maturity, and the ability to abstract himself in stressful situations.
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