Hello, dear readers of the site! Today we will talk about what constitutes an emotive personality type according to Leonhard’s classification. We will find out what his strengths and weaknesses are, as well as in what type of activity he will be able to reveal his talents and capabilities.
General characteristics
Emotive people are usually seen as soft-hearted and vulnerable. They feel pity for all living things and worry for a long time if they could not provide help and support to those who needed it. It is they who feed the pigeons in the park, stray cats and dogs.
They love nature, art and intimate conversations.
This personality type is the most sincere and honest. Perhaps because he does not know how to hide his feelings, which is why he says what he thinks.
Facial expressions are very rich, and anyone who is not at all familiar with non-verbal manifestations of emotions can easily guess what their interlocutor is really experiencing at the moment. Any event hurts him and leaves its mark.
If something sad happened, then he will surrender to living grief, not at all trying to hide his tears, even if he is ashamed of his tearfulness. For example, a man will sob in a movie theater over a melodrama, while representatives of other types of accentuations and stingy tears will not squeeze out at such a moment.
But emotives are excellent interlocutors and faithful partners in any kind of relationship. Most people are simply not able to sincerely rejoice at other people’s achievements and good news, unlike them.
They, listening to your story with a happy ending, will be so inspired and joyful, as if it happened not to you, but to them personally.
Only now they are not able to openly defend their rights, as they will be afraid to hurt the interlocutor with their tough position. For this reason, they rarely express their grievances, trying not to bring the matter to an open conflict. Although it will be clear from their faces that something unpleasant has happened.
Advantages and disadvantages
The difficulty is that such a vivid response to various stimuli can lead to depression, which is characterized by suicidal tendencies.
In this state, a person loses interest in the environment, withdraws into himself, and subsequently ceases to enjoy life, and also to understand the meaning of his existence, full of pain and loneliness.
But if depression can be avoided, then such people are very easy to please. They are able to experience happiness simply by seeing the sun rise, or by feeling a drop of warm summer rain on their face.
Therefore, there is no need to literally «get out of your skin» to please the emotive. Sometimes it is enough just to want to please him, and from the very impulse of kindness and love he will be delighted.
Recommendations
- If you have an emotive child, exclude reading books with a sad ending, do not let him watch sad films, horrors. Given that he is too impressionable, this will reflect extremely negatively on his nervous system. That is, it turns out that you organize additional stress for him. The consequences of which can be various diseases, including mental ones. For example, phobic disorders in most cases arise precisely because the psyche cannot cope with the load.
- If you belong to this type of character accentuations, then try to save your nerves, avoiding situations that can hurt and disturb you. I mean, don’t watch movies that scare and disturb you, don’t hang out with people who specifically want to upset or piss you off.
- The practice of relaxing techniques, including breathing, will also be useful. Meditation will allow you to feel harmony inside, calmness, peace. In stressful situations, given the fact that the emotive personality is too vulnerable, it risks harming health more than any other type according to Leonhard. Therefore, it is extremely important to learn to distance yourself from various events that capture and deprive you of peace, peace of mind.
- Professional activity should involve communication with people, providing them with assistance and support. After all, they are highly sensitive not only to their own feelings and experiences, but also to those experienced by others. They are just specialists in understanding other people’s emotions, and this is important to consider when choosing a job.
- Colleagues and leaders will have to be patient, because in order not to hurt the emotive, you need to be careful with him in communication and handling. Any thoughtlessly thrown word addressed to him can do a lot of trouble. Being frustrated, he will not be able to perform his duties with high quality, and this is not beneficial for any side of the conflict.
Completion
And that’s all for today, dear readers! We recommend that you familiarize yourself with each existing personality type in order to better understand yourself and the people around you. This will simplify the process of building relationships with them, both working and friendly, personal.
You can start, for example, with a schizoid personality, this type is the complete opposite of emotive. In general, follow the link and find out for yourself.
Take care of yourself and be happy!
The material was prepared by a psychologist, Gestalt therapist, Zhuravina Alina