Personality And Personality Development Essay

Evaluate your personality and identity development by incorporating three theorist’s views on personality traits whether it's for or against your identity and personality development.

My overall personality can be concluded as “unpredictable”. This is so because my personality has been continually changing throughout my life. Firstly, during my early and middle childhood i was a humble and accepting person. My culture and environment greatly influence my personality at this age because the elderly both in my family and community had a big role in nurturing me. I did what they told me no matter what it was, because i was raised to believe that the elders know what's best for me. During my adolescence I became an aggressive and difficult

Carl Jung said there's two main types of personality, the introvert and the extrovert. I became an introvert, a person who likes to spend majority of their time by themselves. I become more comfortable with the inner world of my thoughts and feelings rather than the external world. I didn't have play dates, neither was I invited to any, I ate lunch by myself nor was invited to birthday parties, at the time it didn't seemed to bother me. Only thing that mattered was fulfilling the goals set for me by my family since they provided everything I needed and wanted. Most might conclude that being an introvert I mostly will have social and emotional issues. But according to Jung, “Introvert does not necessarily imply that person's social recluse, but rather, they prefer less company over more”. Instead I used the time alone to better myself academically, I had very good grades, won science fairs and spelling bees. My introvert personality traits only became an issue during my adolescent years when I had no choice but to come out of my own internal world to face the outside/external world head on. (Jung