Understanding Personality: Definitions and Determinants
Explore the concept of personality, its definitions by various scholars, and the determinants influencing individual traits. Learn how heredity, environment, and situational factors shape one's unique characteristics and behaviors.
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The word personality has been derived from the Latin word Persona which means Mask utilized by the actors to change their appearances. Since characteristics, thoughts, behavior and attitude for an individual. The term personality is very commonly used in the day to day conversation, but concept of personality have different meaning from the layman s conception of personality. that time it is used for distinctive for psychologists and sociologists the
For social psychologists, personality is not just the outward physical characteristics of a person but individuals thoughts, behavior, attitude, ideas and habits. Personality is the product of social interaction in group life. It is the result of socialization. personality is the combination of
Some of the important definitions of personality are the following: 1. J.O.Whittaker: organization determines recurrent (repeated) pattern of behavior. 2. Park and Burgess: Personality is the sum and organization of those traits (qualities) which determine the role of individual in group. personality of the is the unique that and characteristics individual s typical
3. Edward Sapir: Personality is that aspect of behavior which gives meaning to an individual in society and differentiate him from other members in the community. 4. C.H.Cooley: Personality is the tender (caring) to adjust our conduct to the conduct of others towards us.
5. Green: The sum total of values and non- physical characteristics of a person is called his personality. 6. G.W.Allport: A person pattern of habits, attitudes adjustment to his environment, is called his/her personality. and trades which determine his
Determinants of Personality Heredity Environment Situational
In simple word we can that personality consists of an individual s characteristics and distinctive pattern of thinking, feeling and behavior. Or We can say that personality is the totality of impression which one makes upon others.
