Explore major personality theories to enhance your life, relationships, and work choices. Learn the science behind personality and achieve happiness and satisfaction.
This course dives into how your personality impacts your choices and happiness. It explores different theories over 30 years of insights, helping you apply these concepts in real life to boost your well-being, work, and relationships.
Using major theories of personality to create a happy and satisfying life
Simply put, your personality is the choices you make. All major theories of personality identify what it takes to make choices that will create a happy and satisfying life, but each does it from a different perspective. These videos have been culled from ones used in a Personality course that I taught for nearly 30 years, and describe those theoretical approaches to understanding the choices you make. Find the one that grabs you, and put it to use improving your life, your work, and your relationships.
For those who'd like to take a more rigorous look at the science of personality, the first few sections of the course explain how research in personality is done and some of the issues that come up when doing that research.
Perspectives on what it takes to live a satisfying, well-balanced, and happy life
Key elements of major personality theories that relate to your well-being
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Dr. Sharpsteen has been a professor of psychology for nearly 30 years, specializing in topics related to social psychology, personality, human development, research design, and statistics. He's the author of REA's CLEP Introductory Psychology, a best-selling test preparation guide for introductory/general psychology courses (with exceptionally strong reviews from students), and several video textbooks offered on Udemy.
no it did not meet my expectations.
I am leaving a current rating of 2 stars for now, and this I consider generous. As a student taking this course in 2016, it is unreasonable that I should be paying for a textbook from 2010. I would be more accepting of this cost if either the book did not belong to the professor teaching the class, meaning I'm essentially double-paying a portion of tuition, if it were more recent, or if it were of a higher quality. The use of clip art and low quality sound clips ends up being quite jarring in the middle of taking notes, and does little to actually contribute to the points that are being illustrated. If some of these points improve with the rest of the lectures, I may amend this rating, but I highly doubt such will be the case.
Edit: Upon completion of the course, there were improvement over some of the minor complaints I listed, but the larger issues of age of textbook and paying both for tuition and the videos when only one of them was teaching me means that I will not be increasing this rating.
The subject matter covered by this course was varied and interesting, but the delivery was poor.
Particularly distracting were the use of "soundboard" audio clips at certain points. These clips were of poor audio quality, the volume inconsistent with the main lecture (making them rather jarring) and entirely unnecessary.
The tone of the presenter was also quite monotonous, and the "slides" used way too much clipart.
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Catherine F.
Very interesting... I would prefer text notes at the end of each 'chapter'. My learning style needs a quick run-through of the facts to enable my brain to assimilate the facts.