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editorial
. 2010 Aug 25;3(3):207–215.

Table 1.

The conceptual classification of individuals according to central themes of their personality, with special refference to the characteristics that are present in emergency medicine and paramedical workers, according to Adler and Mosak

Centered on control
  • They supress their feelings and spontaneity in order to gain control

  • Fidelity towards order, intelectual reasoning, consistency and attention to detail

  • Perfectionist, they underapreciate others in comparison to theirselfs

Centered on leading
  • Active, aggresive, energic

  • They feel the need to be in center of attention and to lead others

  • Ambitious and hardly accepting criticism and advice

  • They feel the need to plase everybody aiming for appreciation

  • They dedicate theirselfes totally to the aimed goal and they prove an excessive conscienciosness

Centered on pleasing
  • They feel the need to plase everybody at any moment, and to be apreciated

  • Extremely sensitive to criticism, they feel emotionally drained when they don't succeed in constantly plase others

  • They analyze people around in order to identify what plases them, and change their attitude according to these evaluations

  • They appreciate theirselfes according to opinions expressed by their

Centered on gaining
  • They consider life to be cruel to them for refusing them what they consider they deserve

  • They exploit and manipulate their anturaj by intimidation, personal charm or any other means in order to gain what they want

  • They are unstable in their desires and they mannifest that in all aspects of their lifes

‘Martirs’
  • Self–compassionate, without hope, predisposed to accidents

  • They dedicate theirselfes to their goal and set it in center of all aspects of their life

  • They brag and pride with their suffering and consider theirselfes disadvanteged and underappreciated

‘Oposants’
  • They contradict any arguments but their own

  • They do not support any cause and are always ready to react

  • They are passive of others demands and opinions, are extremely pesimistic and foind unique and independet solutions to the issues they are

Centered on reasoning
  • They avoid feelings and affection, they consider that reason can solve any problem disregarding its nature

  • They are very calculated, affraid of their own spontaneity which they supress as much as possible

  • They do not feel confortable in their social surroundings but they hunt for the good appreciation of their anturaj

‘Action hunters’
  • They hate routine and repettitive actions, they are very affected by boredom and monothony

  • They seek different anturages in which their needs for challenges may be satisfied