Personality Development E-Book

Rittik Chandra

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Personality represents a whole person. Individuals differ from each other on the basis of personality. Personality refers to the set of traits and behaviors that characterize an individual. Personality will mean how people affect others and how they understand and view themselves, as well as their pattern of inner and outer measurable traits and the person-situation interaction.

Leseprobe

Rittik Chandra

Personality Development

TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLDBookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

BY

RITTIK CHANDRA

Published by:

RITTIK CHANDRA

RITTIK PUBLICATION

93, Mahatma Gandhi Road, 1st Floor

Kolkata- 700007, India

Mobile No.: [phone]

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.rittikpublication.in

Cover designed by: RITTIK CHANDRA

© All rights reserved by RITTIK CHANDRA

Dedicated to the youth of the world

Chapter 1: Personality

"If everyone perceived everything the same way, things would be a lot simpler.”

-Moorhead &Griffin-

Personality:

Personality represents a whole person. Individuals differ from each other on the basis of personality. Personality refers to the set of traits and behaviors that characterize an individual.

According to Fred Luthans, “Personality will mean how people affect others and how they understand and view themselves, as well as their pattern of inner and outer measurable traits and the person-situation interaction.”

Thus, personality refers to the sum total of internal and external traits of an individual, which are relatively stable and which make the individual different from others.

Personality Theories:

The theories of Personality are many and most important of them are the following:

Type Theory

Trait Factor Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory

Social Learning Theory-

Humanistic Approach- Rogers Self Theory and Maslow‟s Self Actualization Theory

Type Theory – According to type theories, people are grouped into identifiable. One basis for classifying personalities is the structure of the body. Krestchmer and Sheldon are credited with this classification. In type theories, a relationship was sought to be established between features of face or body and personality. Thus, a short, plump person was said to be sociable, relaxed and eventempered; a tall, thin person was characterized as restrained, self-conscious, and ford of solitude; a heavy-setmuscular individual was described as noisy, callous and fond of physical activity.

Although a person‟s physique may have some influence on personality, the relationship is more subtle than this sort of classification implied. Thus, classification of personalities on a physical basis is subjective. Type theories are simple and popular but carry no substance.

Another basis for classifying personalities is psychological factors. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung credited for it. He basically divided personalities into introverts and extroverts. These terms are normally associated with an individual‟s sociability and interpersonal orientation. Extroverts are gregarious, sociable individuals, while introverts are shy, quiet, and retiring. Typing personalities on psychological factors into introverts and extroverts, though looks simple, serves not much of a purpose as many people fall between the two extremes.

Type theories are simple as they are based on physical attributes psychological factors for categorization of personalities. But the theories fail to reveal all complexities of a personality.