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Personality
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One aspect that makes people different from one another. to the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interact with others.

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Determinants of personality
The personality of an individual is a result of both hereditary and environmental factors.

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Hereditary Factors
Physical Facial

stature

attractiveness

Gender Temperament Muscle Energy

composition and reflexes level rhythms

Biological

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Environmental factors
Cultural

factor refer to the established norms, attitudes, and values that are passed along from one generation to the next and creates consistency over time. Factor refer to those that reflect family life, religion and the many kinds of formal and informal groups in which the individual participates throughout his life.

Social

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Situational

factors indicates that the individual will behave differently in different situations.

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Personality Factors and Traits

There are certain factors that are considered in determining human personality. The 8 factors are:

Emotional stability Extraversion Openness to experience Agreeableness Conscientiousness Self-monitoring behavior Risk taking and thrill seeking

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Emotional Stability
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personality factor characterize one as a calm, self-confident and secure. Its opposite is emotional instability characterized by nervousness, depression and insecurity.

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Extraversion
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is the personality factor describing someone who is sociable, gregarious and assertive. The opposite is introversion, which describes a person a person who tends to be reserved, timid and quiet.

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Openness to experience
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is a personality factor describing a person who is imaginative, cultured, curious and original, broad minded, intelligent, and artistically sensitive. The opposite is the person who is conventioal and finds comfort in the familiar.

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Agreeableness
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factor refers to the persons interpersonal orientation. An agreeable person is cooperative, warm, and trusting. The person who is not agreeable is cold, disagreeable, and antagonistic.

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Conscientiousness
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factor refers to a persons reliability. Those with a high degree of consciousness are responsible, organized, dependable and persistent. Those with a low degree of conscientiousness are easily distracted, disorganized and unreliable.

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Self-monitoring behavior
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reflects a persons ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational or environmental factors. High self monitors are pragmatic and are capable of putting on different faces for different audiences. Low self-monitors find it hard to act or behave as the situation requires.

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Risk taking and thrill seeking

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refers to the persons willingness to take risk and pursue thrills that sometimes are required in the workplaces. Some jobs like those of movie stunts are dangerous and will require a high degree of risk taking and thrill seeking sense.

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Optimism
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refers to the tendency to experience positive emotional states and to typically believe that positive outcomes will be forthcoming from most activities. This is the opposite of pessimism which is the tendency to experience negative emotional states and to typically believe that negative outcomes will be forthcoming from most activities.