Genetic And Environmental Factors Of Personality

Introduction
Personality refers to the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Based on Ivancevich, personality is a relatively stable set of feelings and behaviours that have been significantly formed by genetic and environmental factors.

Genetic factors include hereditary forces. Hereditary forces refers to the genetic inheritance received by every individual at the time of conception from the union of the nucleus of the sperm and the ovum. Such inheritance then play a role or two, depending on the trait, in one’s personality.

Environmental factors include cultural forces, family relationship forces and social class and other group membership forces. Cultural forces influence how open one

Other group membership forces would influence example in terms of one’s ability to orientate to fit the external world.

As everyone’s personality is formed by different genetic and environmental factors, everyone has their own set of personality which is what makes everyone unique. However, it is important to note that one’s personality does not equate to his/her ability. Based on Oxford dictionary, ability is the possession of the means or skill to do something. Ability is also a talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular area. It is not personality(feelings and behaviours). There is no perfect personality. Every personality is moulded to suit the different types of job in the economy.

Other than genetics and environmental factors, Zodiac Signs are also said to influence one’s personality. Zodiac Sign Dates is the date when we were born. It makes reference to our sun sign, which is told by the position of the sun upon the time of our birth. There are 12 star signs which will be mainly focused in this

From our results, there are mixtures of different sets of personality traits that describes the respondents of their horoscope group that’s under this element, “Fire”. This shows that the respondents of this element group have rather different types of personalities.

Majority of the respondents do not like to initiate conversations, which shows that most of them have an introvert personality. Not only that, majority feel that logical decision is always the best even if it hurts someone’s feelings. Based on the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, this states that they make decisions based on reason and thoughts, not feelings.
Respondents from this element group are also willing to help out others in times of needs. When asked what will they do when their friend needed a listening ear, most of them chose to lend a ear and help think of solutions. This shows that they stand high on agreeableness scale in the big five personality dimensions. When questioned “what is most important to them”, respondents reply saying that they prefer spending their time with their loved ones. This shows on the Myers-Briggs type indicator, that they are more sensual.

Water Element (Cancer, Scorpio,