PERSONALITY

DEFINITION AND NATURE

BY: ANJANA KANDA

Latin word

‘persona’

MASK

DERIVATION

G.W. ALLPORT – “Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those

psycho-physical systems that determine his unique adjustment to the environment.”

DEFINITION

APPROACHES

STIMULUS - an

individuals effect on other persons.

APPROACHES

Personality as a stimulus

SUMMATIVE – sum total of different processes and activities of an individual.

APPROACHES

INTEGRATIVE – Integrative aspect of personality and its definite pattern of organization.

APPROACHES

APPROACHES

TOTALITY – Pattern of an individuals total behaviour.

APPROACHES

TOTALITY – “The characteristic pattern of behaviors, cognitions and emotions which may be experienced by the individual and/or manifest to others.”

APPROACHES

ADJUSTMENT – “Personality is the habitual mode of adjustment which the organism effects its own egocentric drives and the exigencies of environment .”

APPROACHES

kretschmer

Sheldon

Jung Trait

Allport

THEORIES

Pyknic -

Kretschmer

Asthenic -

Kretschmer

Athletic -

Kretschmer

Dysplastic – mixed type

Kretschmer

ENDOMORPHIC –

Sheldon

MESOMORPHIC

Sheldon

ECTOMORPHIC

Extrovert

Introvert

Jung

INTROVERT

EXTROVERT

AMBIVERT

JUNG

“a property within the individual that accounts for his unique but relatively stable reactions to environment.”

Trait

characteristics

Trait

characteristics

scalability

Inference from

behavior

LearnedUniversal

Flexible

characteristics

Cardinal trait

Central trait

Secondary dispositions

Allport

S.s. chauhanJ.c. aggarwalR.n. Sharma And a much needed and useful support from Dr. Haseen jahan.

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

conclusion