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PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
TRAIT THEORIES – Personality Theories
Personality traits – are enduring patterns of perceiving, that one English-language dictionary alone
relating to, and thinking about the environment and contained more than 4,000 words describing
oneself, that are exhibited in a wide range of social differently personality traits.
reduced the number of main personality a model of personality based upon just three
traits from Allport’s initial list of over 4000 universal traits were sufficient to describe
HEXACO MODEL
1. Openness to experience: the tendency to be personality structure. Ashton and Lee especially
variety vs. practical, conforming, and differentiating the HEXACO model from other
1. Physiological
2. Cognitive
1. Honesty – Humility 3. Social
2. Emotionality 4. Moral or Spiritual
3. Extraversion 5. Emotional
4. Agreeableness
5. Conscientiousness HOLISM AND GESTALT
6. Openness to experience In 1926, General Jan C. Smuts – South African
statesman, military leader, and philosopher ;