Does Transactional Analysis Extend to Personality Type

By Norbert Grygar

The question is explored by looking at the "transaction" and examining the question of what constitutes the composition of the stimulus and the response. Two personality type systems will be examined in detail and others that have appeared in this publication will be examined as well. Transactional Analysis fits together with the Social Style© Personality Model and that model melds together with the Myers-Briggs TM Personality Model for even greater understanding of human behavior.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norbert Grygar
• Release date: Mar 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685243593

Norbert Grygar

Norbert Grygar graduated from Temple Junior College (TX), attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio and then graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BBA. Afterward, I spent the next two years in the US Army during the Vietnam Era. Upon discharge, I entered the business world where I spent over thirty years in Casualty Insurance including earning the CPCU designation. During the time working, I became very interested in personality types after attending a seminar on Social Style which categorizes individuals as Amiable, Analytical, Driving, and Expressive. Much of the text of this book is the result of self study. Other interests include 10-15 years as a youth soccer coach including a stint as the local soccer association president. I am currently retired and living in Temple, Texas.

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Does Transactional Analysis Extend to Personality Type?

by Norbert Grygar © 2022

Keywords: Transactional Analysis, MBTI, Myers-Briggs

Abstract

The question is explored by looking at the transaction and examining the question of what constitutes the composition of the stimulus and the response. Two personality type systems will be examined in detail and others that have appeared in this publication will be examined as well. Transactional Analysis fits together with the Social Style© Personality Model and that model melds together with the Myers-Briggs TM Personality Model for even greater understanding of human behavior.

The Transaction

A stimulus followed by a response form the basis of all transactions. Both the stimulus and the response each have properties. Dr. Eric Berne did not provide definitions for either term, therefore, a period definition should apply and Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (1961) provides the following: "stimulus n. pl. -li [ L.] 1. Something that rouses the mind or spirits, or incites to activity, an incentive. 2. Physiol. and Psychol. Any agent or environmental change capable of influencing the activity of living protoplasm, as exciting the activity of muscle or organ, of initiating an impulse in a nerve, or of exciting a specific end organ of sensation." (Webster,