Introversion - a Health Risk?
06/15/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Introversion
Are you one of the introverts among
our personality types? (Take our free personality test, if you're not sure!)
If that is the case, you are a person who prefers to recharge
his/her batteries during his/her alone time – you are one of the
famous “still waters”. Because you won’t let others get truly close
to you, for them it is probably not all that easy getting to know
you better. You are a better listener than speaker and take your
time to think before you talk. Because too much company tires you,
you probably prefer a few selected friends. As opposed to the
extroverts, you manage social contacts better in homeopathic doses.
Retreating and being by yourself are your elemental sources of
energy. Continue reading
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Am I a burnout? What can I do about it?
04/02/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Career
The concept Burnout (syndrome) has
become a major element of our every day vocabulary. The Californian
psychologist Christina Maslach first examined it in 1976. She
identified the syndrome’s three components:
- Emotional exhaustion: The sense of being exhausted and depleted by professional contact with other people.
- Depersonalization: Apathy, insensitivity, disinterest in people, work processes and –performance.
- Reduced productivity: The feeling of no longer being capable to accomplish a task well and successfully.
Salutogenesis: Why it is healthy to give your life meaning
08/24/10 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Psychology
The word salutogenesis is composed
of the Latin word salus (= inviolacy, happiness) and the Greek word
genesis (= origin). Thus it stands for the origin of health and was
coined in the 70s by the Israeli-American medical sociologist
Aaron
Antonovsky. Antonovsky was looking for an explanation
for his observation that, while many Holocaust survivors were
suffering from severe after effects (physical and emotional
illnesses), others did not show any such symptoms, at all. He
intended to find out, which factors determined whether a person
would cope with the same traumatic experiences more easily or with
more difficulty than another. Therefore he was interested in the
origin (or retention) of health – even under difficult and
stressful conditions.
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