Christy, your emotions are triggered by your underlying belief in Integrity

In other words, your uncompromisingly honest nature directly affects how, and how often, you experience certain feelings.

For example, your test results indicate that you're most fulfilled when you hold fast to your moral ideals. That factor is directly related to your fundamental belief in integrity and the range of emotions it triggers.

Based on your belief in integrity, where do you rank in the emotional landscape? Which of your emotions dominate your life? And how can you learn to control your emotions?

91% of test takers also believe integrity is important.
Because of your uncompromising integrity, you generally feel most fulfilled when you hold fast to your moral ideals. In most situations you feel as if there's a pretty clear sense of right and wrong and you do your best never to choose the wrong path, even if it's easier or faster. People watch your actions and seek your opinions when it comes to difficult situations because they see you as someone brave enough to uphold your values and they believe yours are good. Your emotional intolerance for immorality �in yourself and others �makes you a highly virtuous person.

Here's an example to illustrate what we mean: Jane's strongest belief is also integrity. It's not hard to imagine that when Jane's co-worker let her in on his plan to skim money off the top of their company's profits, she was pretty shocked. As his motivation, he cited their employer's recent reduction in benefits and the fact that they hadn't received a raise in three years, but none of his justifications swayed Jane. Because she has such a deep belief in the value of integrity, all of her emotions about the experience were heightened. She felt appalled by her co-worker's plan and dismayed by his inferior ethics. She reminded him that their employer had made many of the cutbacks as a strategy to avoid laying anyone off during the dry spell. And because she refused to be in any way a part of the money-skimming plan �even by just knowing about it and letting it happen �she informed him that if he went ahead with it, she'd have no choice but to expose the discrepancies in the books. Jane felt comfortable with her approach because she was putting the decision back in her co-worker's hands, and informing him of the consequences ahead of time, which she felt was the best way to maintain her integrity.




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