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Adler in Hall and Lindzey, 1981: 126. There are four types of style of life: ruling type, getting type, avoiding type, and socially useful type.
a The Ruling Type
The ruling type is people who are forceful, aggressive, and active with little social awareness or interest. Adler gives an example of drug addicts that he
considered as the ruling type person. b
The Getting Type The getting type is people with lifestyle attitude relate to the outside world
in a dependent manner, leaning on others to satisfy most of their needs. c
The Avoiding Type The avoiding type is people with neither sufficient social interest nor
activity to solve their own problem. d
The Socially Useful Type This socially useful type is people with
maturity in Adler’s system. Such a person personifies both a high degree of social interest and a high level of
activity.
5. Social Interest
According to Adler as quoted by Feist 1985:71 social interest can be defined as an attitude, which likely as empathy. Social interest manifests itself as
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collaboration with others for social development rather than for personal gain, as it is part of human nature and some amount of it exists in everyone. Adler in
Phares, 1988: 93, says that social interest is a predisposition, nurtured by experience to contribute to society.
Naturally, man is a social creature where realizes his position as a free individual. In his efforts to develop himself, he must also consider the existence
and the importance of his society. Since a man was born, he automatically becomes a member of society. If his social feeling can develop naturally; he will
be able to make an adaptation with his living environments appropriately. Hall and Lindzey 1970: 125 acknowledge that a man should live among others,
where he interacts with others in his society that make his behavior is always influenced by his society.
According to Hall and Lindzey 1985: 147, A dler’s concept of social
interest is not easy to define. It can be translated in many different ways and the wider meaning of the concept is still questioned. For this study purposes, we will
define social interest as caring and concerning movement that continues to guide a
person’s behavior.
6. Creative Power
Creative power is the influence of any environment toward a person in facing the problem of life. Each person is gifted with freedom to create their own
lifestyle. People are responsible for who they are and how they behave in their life
