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Understanding Personality Traits

Personality refers to individual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It has five main components: physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and values/character. Personality is shaped by our heredity, environment, and experiences. It comes from our genes, interactions with family/society from a young age, and everything we are exposed to over our lifetime.

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Understanding Personality Traits

Personality refers to individual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It has five main components: physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and values/character. Personality is shaped by our heredity, environment, and experiences. It comes from our genes, interactions with family/society from a young age, and everything we are exposed to over our lifetime.

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Name: Caringal, Jan Dexter M.

Date: July 03, 2019

1. Define Personality
Personality comes from the Latin word “persona” which referred to a
mask worn by Roman actors in Greek dramas to portray. It refers to individual
differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The
study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding
individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as
sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a
person come together as a whole.

2. Components of Personality

Physical

This includes the mode of dressing, manner of walking, posture, bodybuild,


health, complexion, and facial expression.

Intellectual

How a person talks and what she talks about is what matters in the
intellectual component of personality. He must develop his intellect or “brain.”

Social

Good manners, correct manners are included in this aspect of personality.To do


the right thing at the right time, to act in the proper manner, to
getalong well with others – these are all parts of the social sphere or personality.

Emotional

This component includes a person’s likes or dislikes, whether she isoutgoing or


shy, whether she is calm or nervous, and whether she loses her temper easily or
“keeps her cool.” Personality problems, such as
howto stay mentally healthy or how to avoid mental disorders are someproblems that
are emotional in nature.

Values System (Character)

This includes a person’s attitudes, values, beliefs, and philosophy in life. This
aspect is referred to as character. It is shown in the way we judge whether our actions
and the actions of others are right or wrong.
3. Personality Differences

Our Heredity

We are born with a set of genes and chromosomes which we inherit from our
forefathers and our parents. These set the limits to our potential.

Our Environment

This consists of your family, school, church, social groups, and other groups
with whom we interact from the very beginning. Each group puts pressure on us and
we behave in certain ways as a result of being with these groups. Our behavior
changes with each situation and with the people we are with. We behave differently
when we are with our friends than we are with our parents, teachers, and others older
than us.

Our Experiences

These consists of everything we do or get I touch with, everywhere we got, in


short, everything that we are exposed to in our lifetime, whether physical, emotional,
or social experiences

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