Meaning
of Personality
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Derived from Latin word ‘Persona’
– means ‘Mask’
·
External appearance of an individual
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Ones total integrated behaviour, it
includes feelings, emotions, needs, interests, attitudes etc.
·
An individual’s unique and relatively consistent
patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
·
Watson
(1930): “Personality is the sum of activities that can be
discovered by actual observations over a long period of time to give reliable
information”.
·
Personality – an attempt to describe and
explain
o
How people are similar,
o
How they are different, and
o
Why every individual is unique
Cattell
(1970): “Personality is that permits a prediction of what a
person will do in a given situation”
Eysenck
(1971): “Personality is the more or less stable and
enduring organization of a person’s character, temperament, intellect and
physique, which determine his unique adjustment to the environment”.
After evaluating 50
definitions:
·
According to Allport (1965): “Personality
is a dynamic organization within the individual of those psycho-physical
systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought”.
·
Personality refers to “factors” inside
people that explain their behavior
·
An individual’s personality, then,
is his unique pattern of traits.”
o
A trait is “any distinguishable,
relatively enduring way in which one individual differs from others.”
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v Behaviour: The way in which an animal or person behaves
in response to a particular situation or stimulus
v Character: the mental and moral qualities distinctive to
an individual.
v Personality: the combination of characteristics or
qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
v Temperament: a person's or animal's nature, especially as
it permanently affects their behaviour.
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