Emotive – soft-bodied VS soft-hearted, responsive VS “tutya”? How to find the line and control yourself?

Character accentuation is a special term that was introduced into scientific practice by specialist Karl Leonhard. Accentuation refers to a special emphasis on individual character traits that form a personality. No matter how tautological it may sound.

Emotive accentuation of character is classified according to Leongaord. In Lichko’s classification, this type of personality does not exist. The closest thing to it can only be called psychasthenic, and then very approximately.

The emotive personality type is distinguished by a group of traits: humanity, kindness, kindness. Some fearfulness towards people and situations. This situation is very disturbing

them to realize themselves in life, especially if no one told the motive in which direction they should move.

What do you need to know about the emotive type of accentuation, and what are its main features? Let's try to figure it out.

Why is emotive accentuation of character formed?

Accentuation of character as a whole is not an innate personality trait. Rather, predisposition plus external circumstances. Certain personality characteristics are most actively formed in the first 3-5 years of life. A little slower for the next 6-8 years. Thus, the personality and its approximate features are formed by the age of 13-14. Plus or minus. The rest of the time you can only slightly adjust the general situation.

We can talk about several factors in the development of this psychotype and psychotypes in general. In particular, the following points influence emotivity.

• Features of higher nervous activity

Genetically determined. This is an innate characteristic that cannot be controlled. Emotives have a weak type of nervous system. And in this they are very similar to psychasthenics. Such individuals quickly get tired of active social interaction. At the same time, they are strongly drawn to him. Thus, the innate characteristics of the central nervous system determine the development of typical character traits.

• Overprotectiveness

Emotives tend to be overprotected in their early years. This is a situation when a parent, especially a mother, devotes all their time to their child, sometimes forgetting about themselves. They literally put life on the altar of a newborn child. In this case, three outcomes are possible. First, the individual will become tough, selfish and self-obsessed, which is quite logical. Secondly, the child will become shy, which is called “stuck” and closed. This is possible if the mother constantly focuses on her sacrifice, often imaginary. The third option is that the child will become an emotive. This is a fairly rare situation, but anything is possible.

• Insufficient guardianship

The lack of parental love and attention affects. In particular, mothers. Especially in the first few years. Not receiving this in childhood, the individual strives to get what is missing in adulthood or adolescence. At the same time, selflessly giving what he receives. But this happens extremely rarely. Most often, with insufficient parental love, it is not emotives that grow, but schizoids and paranoid psychopaths. Less common are narcissists who are fixated on their own personality. Various options are possible.

• Personal example of parents

The first person a newborn baby sees is its mother. Less often other people. Especially if there were no parents. The first years of life are based on imitating the behavior of parents. That is, the child tries to repeat everything that adults do. Mainly focuses on the mother, then the father gets involved. Therefore, if the mother behaves selfishly, then the child is likely to behave the same way. And, on the contrary. But there are two main options. The first is that the child will really give his feelings and positive emotions to the world. The second is to secretly suck out all the juice, being a hidden narcissist. Both options are equally possible.

• Environment

Emotive accentuation of character, like no other, is formed under the influence of the social environment. The same one in which the child is most of the time. These include parents and relatives. The same principle comes into play here. Close people play a major role in the development of accentuation. Because they provide an example to follow, they influence the child in a certain way. The more love a young man receives, the higher the likelihood that the result will be an emotive one. Or its opposite is a narcissist, a hysterical. This is why it is so important to maintain balance when raising children of both sexes. Regardless of the role, father or mother.

• Heredity

An individual is not born a blank slate. Experts and scientists are increasingly coming to this conclusion. The fact is that some personality traits are inherited. More likely even a predisposition. Character is still “forged” in the process of education. However, the role of heredity should not be discarded. It makes up almost half of the overall picture.

• Health status

Especially during the teenage years. In this case, we are more likely talking about restrictions that may be imposed on a teenager. On his social activities. Because a lack of communication is more likely to create a schizoid, a paranoid personality, or a social phobia that is formally healthy, but afraid of society. Therefore, health status plays a big role.

• Social activity

The picture is crowned by the level of social activity. The higher it is, the greater the likelihood of developing an emotive personality type. Although this is not an axiom. There are plenty of exceptions to the rule in both directions.

A personality with emotive accentuation is not formed all at once. A large group of factors is involved in the development of this psychotype. Only the main ones are named. In fact, there are many more of them.

Professional quality

People of this psychotype choose humanistic activities. They work mostly one-on-one, and this is the type of relationship they prefer.

Thanks to awareness and well-developed thinking, they can be outstanding writers or journalists. The desire to help people makes it possible to work as doctors and psychologists, teachers in kindergartens and schools.

It is impossible to manipulate such people, as they feel it very well, which plunges them into grief. You need to behave sincerely with them, and if you need help, you need to ask for it openly. Most likely, the emotive will not refuse help, since he is practically unable to refuse others.

We can summarize that such a psychotype is the most true to himself and his opinion. Such people do not cheat on their loved ones or betray their friends; they expect the same from those around them. The emotive remembers those who caused harm very well and constantly experiences the emotions associated with it. Emotive knows how to forgive, but it almost never forgets a sad experience.

How to identify an emotive person, what traits are inherent in such a personality

Emotive is distinguished by a large group of typical features that are unique to it. Exactly in this combination. Of course, the intensity of manifestations may be greater or less. Depends on the individual. Typically the following features appear:

Increased sensitivity

Such people know how to deeply feel the situation. They are distinguished by an increased tendency to empathy. That is, they perfectly feel the emotions of another, his mood. They make excellent psychologists and psychotherapists. Developed empathy helps you get along well with people. On the other hand, such an individual practically does not know how to say “no”. Therefore, toxic tyrants and narcissists gladly use emotive to “drain” emotional negativity, as a vest for stories about their own experiences. This is a big problem.

Tendency to depression and suicidal behavior

Emotives react extremely negatively to severe mental wounds. And these are not false attempts to attract attention, as happens with narcissists and hysterics. This is a real attempt to end one’s own life in order to get rid of intense emotional pain and emptiness. They are often impulsive, which is why they manage to save the person. Depressive episodes must be worked through with a psychotherapist in order to quickly eliminate the pathological process.

Humanity

Emotive teenager and adult are always ready to help others. They get along well with people and are altruistic. At the same time, they treat animals and nature with kindness. They do not harm others, which will be discussed further below.

Kindness

In a negative way, it manifests itself as softness. At least this is how other people may perceive the emotive. Especially epileptoids and toxic personalities, narcissists, hysterics. Since the emotive cannot say no, it is often used as a tool to realize other people's ambitions. You need to stay away from your own “antipodes”.

Compassionate

Willingness to help anyone and everyone. This is a good trait. A person is distinguished by a philanthropic attitude towards others. Loves people. Ready to help anyone and everyone. If other psychotypes help their own, and even then not always, then an individual with an emotive type of character accentuation is ready to help both his own and others. He lives by the principle “love your neighbor”, and the same applies to those “far away”.

Tendency to build long-term social relationships

An individual with an emotive personality type is prone to long-term social relationships. Not exchanged for random connections. That’s why he makes an excellent family man, husband, wife, and friend. They are loyal and devoted. Including your word, even given to strangers. They have a heightened sense of duty and responsibility. You can trust them with any secret and not be afraid for it.

Soft facial expressions

It is unique, soft and flexible. Such people do not know how to put on false smiles and do not tolerate insincerity themselves. Because they feel others, their emotions and feelings very well. Hence the ability to quickly recognize a liar and a hypocrite. Emotive will not communicate with such individuals. He carefully selects his social circle and is not ready to waste his time, as has already been said.

Taking life seriously

Since the patient has increased sensitivity, he takes everything that happens to heart. And not only with him and his loved ones, but also with other people. May worry about trifles. Therefore, most of the time he is in a gloomy mood if he is not influenced. This kind of dysthymia needs to be fought.

Some sentimentality

The tendency to get upset over trifles, to revel in one’s own emotions. Although this is not typical for the average emotional person. This trait is more typical of a hysteroid, who by nature is a real actor.

Inability to contain your feelings

May become emotional in public, when watching a dramatic film, or reading a book with a sad ending. This is not a sign of incontinence. It’s just that such individuals do not know how to restrain their own emotions, both positive and negative. They easily come into sensual movement, but stop quite quickly.

Don't hurt others

Therefore, they are much less prone to criminal activity than other psychotypes. Although such situations do occur, they are more likely due to strict necessity. For example, he stole food so as not to die of hunger or so that his loved ones would not die of hunger. The example is exaggerated, but it fully corresponds to the true intentions of the emotive and the characteristics of its behavior.

Other features include:

• Fearfulness is present at a deep level in every emotive. Sometimes even a certain cowardice is possible in relationships with others.
• Recognition of authorities. An individual with an emotive type of character accentuation recognizes authorities and tries not to argue with them. For example, he does not quarrel with his superiors about poor working conditions. Unscrupulous people often take advantage of this.
• Performance. Willingness to do your job honestly. At the same time, an emotive is not a blunt instrument, it is a person with his own opinion. Therefore, he will not carry out criminal orders if any are received.
• Heaviness to climb - tries not to change his place of work, environment, place of residence. Because it is difficult to bear all changes on an emotional level. May get sick during changes and fall into depression.
• Changeability of mood is sharp, but not long-lasting. As a rule, patients are in a stable emotional background most of the time.
• Instability of interests. One thing or another is interesting. This often leads to the inability to complete any task.
• Lack of leadership ambitions. Reluctance to take up leadership positions. Because a person doesn't need it. Although often intellectual and moral qualities allow one to become successful bosses.
• Increased intuitiveness. Intuition is at a very high level and helps to make the right decisions.
• Emotionality. Since an individual does not know how to restrain his emotions, he may be considered immature. Accused of childishness.
• Altruism. Willingness to help anyone and everyone. This can become a big problem if a person starts helping those unworthy of it. For example, in extreme cases, the patient brings homeless people and criminals home, trying to help them.
• Tendency to work with people. Emotive does not “shy away” from people, as happens with schizoids. Therefore, he is more focused on cooperation with people and chooses the appropriate professions.
• Acute reaction to criticism. To the point of complete intolerance to it.
• Small circle of friends. Because the emotive selects them quite harshly and does not let everyone into its circle.
• Avoiding conflicts, smoothing out rough edges.
• Tendency to keep experiences to yourself. So as not to burden others with your grievances and problems.

Reasons for formation

Psychologists and psychoanalysts have not yet come to a consensus regarding exactly how the predominance of an emotive type of accentuation arises in a person. Nevertheless, most experts agree that the foundations of personality are formed in early childhood and, in fact, cannot be corrected throughout the rest of life. A hypothesis has also been put forward about a genetic influence on the manifestations of this type of accentuation.

An individual’s personality begins to be created in the mother’s womb, and therefore some scientists believe that the experiences of a pregnant woman, her emotional background and lifestyle in general have a direct impact on the child’s future. And after birth, the baby from the very beginning begins to absorb all the information that he sees around him. He reads the mother’s emotions and experiences, and can also gradually adopt some of her character traits. This implies the fact that this personality type - like any other - can be transmitted from the environment in the first years of life.

Emotive and work

Such individuals choose work based on their interests and character traits. The following professions are generally suitable for emotive accentuators:

• Psychologist.
• Teacher.
• Art worker.
• Doctor.

These are just examples. Emotives achieve great success in jurisprudence and intellectual specialties.

Thinking

Features are manifested not in the speech itself, but in the way it is pronounced. The speech of the psychotype is smooth and in low tones; melody is clearly heard in the voice. The words chosen are more positive, while the negative ones are replaced by words of apology.

Speech has literacy and correct pronunciation, and a person’s culture is clearly demonstrated. Basically, such people are well-read and well acquainted with the literary works of many famous authors. But still, although speech meets many criteria, the emotive prefers to listen more than to speak.

Realization in personal relationships

Emotive relationships are distinguished by sincerity and willingness to give. Unfortunately, such people often do not let anyone near them after the first failure. That's why they remain lonely. After working through the problem, everything becomes somewhat simpler. The compatibility of emotives mainly manifests itself with the same accentuators. Psychasthenics, also mild hysterics. Incompatible with paranoids, rarely compatible with schizoids due to the emotional coldness of the latter. Moreover, they are incompatible with epileptoids, who by their nature are tyrannical and picky.

Nuances when communicating

General shyness, isolation, modesty and independence largely create a mysterious image of a person with an established emotive type. We can say that this is the calling card of such an individual when communicating with other people. A slight manifestation of emotions and their deliberate suppression leads to the fact that some other types of personalities have difficulty perceiving the interlocutor in a conversation.

The habit of constant reflection and some speech inhibition can confuse communication. For example, some are able to mistake such manifestations for boredom or disrespect, although objectively this is absolutely not the case. With one or more truly close people or relatives, such a person is capable of being very talkative and absolutely sincere emotionally.

How to properly raise a child with an emotive accentuation of character

We can give you some advice:

• Remain calm in any situation, do not blame or scold.
• Choose the right activities. There is no need to send such a child to the wrestling section, since emotive does not tolerate violence in any form.
• You need to be interested in the child's emotions. Because he must speak out from time to time.
• It is important to teach him to refuse and stand up for himself. So that he does not become defenseless against an aggressive world.
• Don't make unrealistic demands.

These are fairly simple recommendations that will help maintain your child’s mental health.

Focus

The main focus of emotions is avoiding failure. For emotive this is a necessity, since it:

• has low stress tolerance and tries to avoid stressful situations;
• is skeptical about some life situations;
• feels uncomfortable in the company of conflicting people;
• distrustful, and therefore tries to check everything carefully.

The special functioning of the brain makes us strive to achieve high goals and at the same time maintain family and social values.

How to help yourself and correct negative personality traits

A person with an emotive accentuation of character can be given several recommendations.

• Learn to say no in order to refuse the right situation in time.
• Learn to relax. There is no need to shoulder a load that you cannot bear.
• Don't help everyone. Get to the heart of the situation.
• Help must be adequate. You shouldn’t do everything for a person so that he doesn’t “get on your neck.”
• Don't become convenient for everyone.
• Increase your resistance to stress.

To solve the last problem, there are several trainings.

• Talk to people more. Even through force.
• Try to perceive life with humor. Work on it.
• Learn to stay calm by simply counting to 10 or through relaxation techniques.

Parenting Tips

As a rule, a child will blame himself in most negative situations that occur, regardless of whether he deserves it or not from an objective point of view. The task of parents will be to try to teach their child to maintain calm and presence of mind in difficult moments of life. It will also be necessary, if possible, to show a sufficient degree of participation in terms of asking various questions about the child’s life, about his feelings and experiences. However, you should not push too hard, since the emotive type of people is characterized by a reluctance to spill their own problems and emotions outward.

It is worth noting that if a child has positive qualities such as sympathy and empathy, it is not always necessary to try to develop them to an exorbitant level. This decision is quite controversial and can create many problems in future adult life, because without the ability to refuse or stand up for oneself in certain situations, a person will have a difficult time. Many parents often require their children to perform tasks that are beyond their ability. In reality, such action does not always build character. The same applies to enrolling a child in any sports section such as boxing or karate, because these types of activities may not correspond to internal personal attitudes.

General recommendations

These individuals can be advised to have a calm and measured lifestyle, in which there will be a minimum of stress and conflict situations. It is worth carefully considering your social circle and professional activities, and then, if possible, identifying and eliminating all negative aspects.

Experts sometimes give people of the emotional type recommendations to attend some specialized training, where the individual could communicate with similar people and learn about how they cope with difficulties in their lives.

The history of the emergence of practical characterology and the “7 radicals” methodology of Ponomarenko

Radicals (from Latin radix - “root”) are a group of psychological qualities of homogeneous origin, based on the same internal mental conditions.

The appearance of each radical is based on two important factors: the strength and mobility of the nervous system. The strength of the nervous system determines how successfully a person will cope with heavy psychological stress without losing emotional and psychological balance. Mobility, in turn, affects his ability to quickly switch from one task to another, without losing the quality of the work performed.

The author of the “7 radicals” methodology is a Russian scientist, psychiatrist, expert psychologist of the Russian special services, researcher in the field of individual and social psychology Viktor Viktorovich Ponomarenko.

The approach itself takes its origins from psychiatric practice. The author noted that various behavioral patterns that psychiatrists assess as deviations or signs of mental illness can partially be observed in healthy and socially successful people.

Of course, the degree of expression of these qualities in a healthy person does not reach a critical level (unlike a person with mental developmental disabilities). According to psychologists, illness does not provoke the birth of new qualities - it only aggravates existing qualities that a healthy person possesses.

The author presented all his knowledge and experience accumulated over many years of practice in a number of works and dozens of journal publications on the topics of applied psychology and organizational behavior. Perhaps Ponomarenko’s most famous work was the book “Practical Characterology. Method of 7 radicals."

Viktor Viktorovich spent a lot of time inventing his own approaches, methods, technologies and ways of obtaining the necessary information about a person. He wanted to find a method that would allow him to understand the motives of a person’s actions, as well as predict his future actions.

Ponomarenko was often attracted by the heads of both private and public organizations to create a system of professional personnel selection, taking into account psychological characteristics, as well as to manage, motivate and work with employees. He became a well-known expert in the psychological diagnosis of people.

What is the “7 radicals” technique?

Today, the phrase “7 radicals” by Viktor Ponomarenko read online for free” is one of the most popular search queries on the Internet. What did the author write that was so interesting?

According to him, radicals denote enhanced character traits and characteristics of an individual, due to which a person begins to use the same patterns of behavior in different situations.

The presence of leading radicals in a person can be determined by the following criteria:

• appearance (physique, clothing, presence of accessories and jewelry, facial expressions, gestures, gait, facial features);
• observable behavioral features (habits, patterns and basic traits);
• design of space (home, office, car, desk and even smartphone and computer screens).

As a rule, 1-2 radicals are clearly expressed in each person, while the rest are “mixed” in different proportions. This forms a kind of cocktail of qualities that makes people different from each other. The presence of leading radicals makes it possible to predict human behavior based on those character traits that are inherent in a particular radical [HR League, 2015].

Having understood which radicals are leading, you can understand much more, for example:

• a person’s attitude towards work and other activities;
• presence of talents and inclinations for something;
• areas of growth and weakness;
• communication features;
• styles of behavior in crisis situations;
• hidden character traits;
• patterns and regularities of behavior.

The technique is great for personal use and building relationships with loved ones, as well as for personnel management. It has long been used by business owners and enterprise managers, employee selection specialists, sales managers, teachers, psychologists, medical workers, etc. [Modern therapy in psychiatry and neurology, 2018].

In his book “Practical characterology. Methodology of 7 radicals" Ponomarenko highlighted the following ideas:

• there are no bad characters;
• the characters of two people do not differ depending on their gender, age, nationality and religion;
• a person’s character, given by nature, cannot be changed;
• There is no character consisting of only one radical - there are one or two clearly expressed radicals and the rest, manifested to a lesser extent.

Ponomarenko believed that the more psychotypes are present in a person’s personality, the more psychologically stable and resistant to change it can be [HR League, 2015].

The book “Practical characterology. The “7 Radicals” methodology by Viktor Ponomarenko should be read by anyone who wants to understand the motives behind the actions of most people.