PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

1.) What is Personality?

Personality, a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly
expressed in interactions with other people. It includes behavioral characteristics,
both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can
be observed in people’s relations to the environment and to the social group.

2.) What are the components of personality?

Sigmund Freud is known for his study on the three basic components that
greatly affect our personality. He developed the three components of our
personality: the id, ego, and super ego. These are the results of our thinking,
feeling, and behaviors.

The id functions primarily based on pleasure principle wherein our mind

seeks to achieve pleasure and avoid any form of pain. Freud mentioned that the
id consists of two major instincts and these are eros and thanatos. The former is
otherwise known as the life instinct that urges us to seek for pleasurable activities
while the latter is our death instinct that stimulates us to cause to destroy.

The ego is the next component of our personality which is the heart of our
consciousness. It is characterized by either of the dominant functions which are
introversion or extraversion along with the other functions. It is based on the reality
principle which states that our mind acknowledges what is real and currently
existing. It also understands that there are corresponding consequences to our
behaviors.

The super ego is the last component of our personality in which our values
and morals are contained. Our super ego can also offset or compensate the id.

3.) What are the factors of personality?

Our various personality traits are generally categorized into what is referred
to as the Big Five Factors: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness,
neuroticism, and openness to experience.

Extraversion pertains to being outgoing, sociable, full of energy,

enthusiasm, and action-oriented. Introversion, on the other hand, refers to lack of
liveliness and energy. Agreeableness manifests our differences in terms of
cooperation and social harmony. Agreeable people like getting along with each
other well while disagreeable individuals are more concerned with self-interest and
personal well-being. Conscientiousness focuses on how we manage and control
 our impulses and desires. Conscientious people are intelligent, organized, and
persistent. Neuroticism is evident in individuals who are emotionally reactive and
may have gone through or are going through a strong negative feeling. Openness
to experience is a trait that characterizes people who are creative, imaginative,
curious, and intellectuals.

4.) Why is the study of Personality Development important?

Personality development helps you develop a positive attitude in life rather
than cribbing and criticizing people around, analyze the whole situation and try to
find an appropriate solution for the same. It plays an important role in developing
not only your outer but also inner self. It is essential to behave well with people
around. Being polite with others will not only make you popular among other people
but also earn you respect and pride. Human being is a social animal. Personality
development helps you gain recognition and acceptance from the society as well
as people around.

Personality development is not only focused on the individual’s professional

life but also his or her personal life. It makes an individual disciplined, punctual
and an asset for one’s organization. It you to respect not only your boss and fellow
workers but also family members, friends, neighbors, relatives and so on.
Personality development also helps you differentiate between your personal as
well as professional life. It is essential to keep a balance between both the lives to
lead a peaceful and stress-free life. It also helps an individual to inculcate positive
qualities like punctuality, flexible attitude, willingness to learn, friendly nature,
eagerness to help others and so on.

Personality development plays an essential role in improving one’s

communication skills. The study of personality development helps you develop an
impressive personality and makes you stand apart from the rest.

REFERENCES:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/personality

http://www.exforsys.com/career-center/personality-development/components-
and-aspects-of-personality.html

http://www.managementstudyguide.com/freuds-psychoanalytic-theory-of-
personality-development.htm