--Original published at Hope's PSY105 Blog
The Johari Window was an interesting experience in finding out what people think my personality is like. The six words I picked to describe myself were accepting, complex, independent, observant, self-conscious, and sympathetic. There are others I believe are true, but these six were the most prevalent. All these traits are known by at least one other person. The one with the highest number in the arena area? Self-conscious, which six people agreed with. Accepting and complex each had five people agree.
I liked seeing what other people thought. Being that it could be anonymous, I sent it to two fairly large groups of people to see what their opinions were. One group I had been in for a year and a half, the other had only been about a month. Both groups have people who believe I am helpful, complex, trustworthy, and mature. In the group I have been in for a longer time, however, people see me as an extrovert. In the smaller group that I have been in for only a month, people thought I was more introverted. There are many people in both groups who think I’m friendly, with fifty percent of the people who completed the Johari Window choosing friendly to describe me. I learned that people think so much more of me than I think of myself. A lot of the things that people did say, things like confident, dependable, caring, and happy, really caught me by surprise.
I think this was an accurate way to evaluate personality. You choose what you think of yourself, but when you ask others, they choose what they think of you. It depends on how you act around other people, and that influences what they choose, but for the most part I believe this was an accurate way to evaluate personality.
https://kevan.org/johari?view=hopee1212