What Is Type D Personality Type

question 65

Multiple Choice

What is Type D personality type?

• A) The "depressed" type
• B) The "dysfunctional" type
• C) The "distressed" type
• D) The "detached" type

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Definitions:

Lexical Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that all important personality characteristics should be reflected in the language that people use to describe themselves or others.

Big Five Model

A theoretical framework in psychology that describes personality using five main dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Factor Analysis

A statistical method used to identify underlying variables, or factors, that explain the pattern of correlations within a set of observed variables.

Lexical Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that the most important individual differences in human personality are encoded in the natural language.