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What is Type D personality? Test reveals how the little-known character type is so good at bottling up emotions that even they don't realize they're lonely and anxious.
Are you often irritable?Do you tend to hide your feelings from others?Do you often feel down?If the answer is "yes", then maybe you are a Type D personality.
Type D personalities usually have a low self-esteem and a great fear of disapproval and this is the primary reason that prevents them from opening up to others.Thus assuming that type D personalities lack social interest is not correct but the right thing is that they might be interested in people but afraid to approach them because they fear rejection.
Negative emotions such as worrying, stress, depression and anger visit type D personalities more often.
The term was first devised by psychologist Johan Denollet from Tilburg University who created a quiz to identify a type D personality.
Test for D Type Personality
Below are a number of statements that people often use to describe themselves.
Choose the number next to each statement that best reflects your feelings.
There are no right or wrong answers, just be honest with yourself.
0 = false
1 = somewhat false
2 = neutral
3 = somewhat true
4 = true
1) I make contact easily when I meet people 0 1 2 3 4
2) I often talk to strangers 0 1 2 3 4
3) I am often irritated 0 1 2 3 4
4) I often feel inhibited in social interactions 0 1 2 3 4
5) I take a gloomy view of things 0 1 2 3 4
6) I find it hard to start a conversation 0 1 2 3 4
7) I am often in a bad mood 0 1 2 3 4
8) I am a closed kind of person 0 1 2 3 4
9) I would rather keep people at a distance 0 1 2 3 4
10) I often make a fuss about unimportant things 0 1 2 3 4
11) I often feel unhappy 0 1 2 3 4
12) I often find myself worrying about something 0 1 2 3 4
13) I am often down in the dumps 0 1 2 3 4
14) When socializing, I don't find the right things to talk about 0 1 2 3 4
Add your scores for questions 1) to 9) to see how you score on the Negative Affectivity scale
On questions 10) and 11), if you circled 0, enter 4; if 1, enter 3; if 2, enter 2; if 3, enter 1; if 4, enter 0.
Add your scores for 10 to 14 to find out how you score on the Social Inhibition scale.
You qualify as a type D personality if you scored 10 or higher on both Negative Affectivity and Social Inhibition scales.
The first thing you must understand about personality types is that they have nothing to do with genes. This means that if you have a Type D personality then this doesn't mean that you can't change it. Also, the quiz doesn't mean that the result of the quiz determines your destiny. According to psychology, any personality trait can be changed.
Learn to control your emotions, control your thoughts, get over fear of rejection and learn to open up.
Beside Type D, we also have Type A, Type B and Type C. Which one is mostly of you?
Type A
Type B
Type C
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