Personality Development And Development Of Personality

Introduction

Personality is most generally viewed as a "characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving.” It encompasses things such as "moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people”[1] and therefore it helps form a person’s distinctive character. This concept can be dissected through the study of personality traits (amongst other approaches) which refers to the generally consistent but unique pattern of personal characteristics depending on the various situations and events in one’s life. This influences behaviour, thoughts and emotions resulting in individual differences.

Personality can also then be referred to as a dynamically unique combination of behavioural traits, cognitive functions

The development of one’s personality is an amalgamation of not only his or her personal experiences but is also attributed to other factors such as culture and the physical and social environment that he or she grows up in. This is achieved through the process of socialisation which refers to "the process whereby an individual learns to adjust to a group (or society) and behave in a manner approved by the group (or

This is a kind of personality self-assessment whereby the individual is presented with a series of statements, requiring to reveal how well each statement describes themselves or how much they agree with each statement.

A popular self-report inventory used to determine personality is the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This indicator the psychological preferences that an individual has and is created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. The MBTI employs Carl Gustav Jung's theory of psychological types to evaluate and define personality (Goby, 2006). The types are based on four functions (feeling, thinking, intuition and sensing) and four attitudes (extraversion, introversion, judging and