--Original published at Cecilia's Thoughts

--Original published at Makayla Hockenbrock

The process of choosing my Johari window was more difficult than I expected. I didn’t know which traits to pick for myself. I was either between a couple, knew ones were definitely not me, and then others I wasn’t sure if they described me or not. For example, I knew I was definitely an extrovert, so that eliminated the introvert trait. Other traits given, like ‘able’ was confusing to me because I really didn’t know what that was referring to. I was anxious to see the results once I finally picked my traits. Some traits that I didn’t think described me, my friends picked. All the traits I picked for myself, at least one of the people I emailed the link to agreed and selected one out of the six traits. I learned more traits about myself that I didn’t know I had than I expected I would have from this assignment. In terms of validity, I think it is a valid test if only people you know participate. I had some people who I didn’t know and didn’t know me participate in my Johari Window. So, my results were skewed because of that. I guess it is not hard for people to obtain the link you shared with your friends. I don’t know if it accurately measures one’s personality because there is only a limited number of traits. There are many traits that can describe someone’s personality. Overall, I liked this assignment cause I was interested in seeing how I was perceived from my friends point of view.

--Original published at Manami PSY105blog

Johari window is an idea of how people hide their personality in conversation and technique that helps people to understand their relationship. It consists of 4 windows: open self, blind self, hidden self, and unknown self.

I chose “caring”, “cheerful”, “friendly”, “happy”, and “kind” from the lists of personal characteristics through the website kevan.org which creates own Johari window. I chose them because I think they are my strengths and my favorite personality. I guessed that my self-description is similar to what my friends select because I am not good at faking myself in front of my friends. In addition, I always try to behave like what I want to such as friendly and out kind, and I became like that naturally. From the result, my friends selected “brave”, “helpful”, “organized”, “sensible” and “warm” in addition to my selections. It better resulted than I expected because they also match with what I ‘m trying to be like. It is important to try new things always (brave) and to organized to achieve my goal. It is completely the same things with what I was told by my mother. I felt my personality is changing depends on what I’m doing. This is a good measurement of personality in terms of validity because it has enough number of options to choose and suggests accurate and detail results. On the other hand, people who are asked to choose a person’s personality tend to be his/her friends. Therefore, the result tends to be only positive. The list also has more positive characteristics than negative ones. It may be difficult to point out what is bad aspects of the person. In fact, I felt happy about my result and suspicious if my friends were not honest. Anyways, it was a good opportunity to like myself more than before by realizing people think of my personality similar to what I want to be like.

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--Original published at David's Blog

Last week we were assigned to look at the Johari Window website. Our task was to pick five to six traits we thought described us. After we did that we needed to send the link to our website to at least ten other people. Those ten other people then did the same, they picked out five to six traits they thought describe us. After this process was done everyone got almost all of the traits I selected. The only traits that were not selected by my friends was logical and self-conscious. Everything else I picked for myself at least one other person picked out for me. I think this can defiantly be a good measure of other peoples personality. I find this to be true, since there are some things we don’t know about our selfs that the ones around us do. One thing I can say that maybe faulty in this experiment could be how different people think of us in different ways. Depending on how much you are around with the people you gave the survey to their answers can change. Another thing is some people act differently around others. There is a old Japanese saying that everyone has three different “faces” or personalities around others. One is for the public like co workers or class mates the, second is for close friends and family members. The last is the face of the unknown the one you keep to yourself and no one knows about. In conclusion I learned that a lot of people think a lot of different things about me. I think this since I have twenty plus traits other people picked out for me.

Johari Window Results

--Original published at Carly's College Blog

I was excited and nervous when creating my Johari Window. I was excited to see how similar the traits I picked were to the ones others picked, but nervous in general to see what others think of me. I kind of felt a little vulnerable when describing myself because one of the traits I used was self conscious. I put on the façade, not that I’m cocky or over confident, but that I like who I am and accept myself. That isn’t the case. I hide my emotions from others because I like to come off as strong, and I do not like to be perceived as weak. This is why I would have to call the test invalid. People are going to pick the traits they see in you, but if people don’t know the real you, it would be inaccurate.

This reflected in the answers from my friends. 53% called me energetic. My roommate who sees me behind closed doors,  sees me naps for hours every afternoon and was the only person to not pick energetic. I got a lot of traits that surround my outward appearance: bold, cheerful, confident, energetic, proud, self-assertive, and spontaneous. I wonder how the responses would change if I let my guard down more often. I decided it to send it to my aunt that I spend a lot of time with. She pinpointed parts of that I don’t often show to others. She picked sentimental, sympathetic, self conscious, observant, helpful, and complex. I also sent it to a childhood friend whom I’ve known since 1st grade because I wanted to see how her answers would differ from the friends I’ve made at etown. She chose accepting, caring, trustworthy, intelligent, and spontaneous.

here’s the link to my Johari: http://kevan.org/jh/caarpatt99

--Original published at Rachel Bickelman's PSY 105 Blog

Doing the Johari window was a fun and informative process. I sent the link to my close friends and family to see if there were similarities or differences between the adjectives people chose. For the most part, the adjectives I chose for myself were not very similar to the ones my friends and family chose for me. I chose more serious attributes like observant and mature but was reminded I have a warm and silly side too. The adjectives known to me and the respondents were: independent, knowledgeable, witty, and organized. It surprised me to see that many people chose the same adjectives. One of the most frequently chosen adjectives I did not select was caring and trustworthy. While I believe myself to be both these things it was interesting that in each case 72% of people chose these descriptors.

I thought the Johari Window was a relatively accurate measure of personality. I thought the adjectives chosen for me by my friends and family were very accurate. It is not always possible to see yourself through others eyes but, using the Johari Window gave me a chance to see what others think of me. I think the Johari Window was especially helpful to those who sent it to their close family and friends since these people would likely know their personality the best. Though it is not a psychometric test of personality, I think it does give true insight to a person’s general behavior and personality.

I learned that a majority people think of me as caring, trustworthy, and intelligent. I also learned that I possess a lot of amicable traits such as warm, kind, and silly. The Johari Window both taught and reassured me that I treat my friends and family the way I want to be treated.

Link to Johari Window: https://kevan.org/johari?view=Rachel%20Bickelman

--Original published at Sydney’s Side

While picking my own characteristics I chose relaxed, accepting, happy, organized, and friendly. Of those five, the only one that was not chosen by other people was relaxed. Which makes sense because the only time a truly relax is when I’m by myself. There were a variety of characteristics in my blind spot but they were somewhat similar to the traits I picked for myself.

This measure of personality was somewhat accurate but I feel as if it is too general. Some people may only put the traits to be nice but not to be specific. Additionally, unconsciously I may have picked characteristics that would make me look different than what I want other people to view me as. The individuals that responded to my window may have also been doing the same thing. In order to make it more accurate it could have been empirically keyed which means it would ask questions that do not directly relate to the question it is asking. Many of the people I asked to fill out the johari window were my friends and family which makes them all biased about me. If I had asked people that may not like me, I would have gotten different answers most likely.

Some characteristics that were in my blind spot included bold, calm, caring, independent, patient, and able. The traits that most people picked were dependable, intelligent, kind, and trustworthy. These results did not teach me much about myself because they were similar to the traits I picked for myself.

https://kevan.org/johari?view=sydneyleete