Introduction of personality development -M.A(RD) Sem-II in English
Introduction of Personality
Q. Give an introductory view of Personality.
Q. व्यक्तित्व का परिचयात्मक दृष्टिकोण दें।
How do we define ‘personality’? Within psychology two classic definitions are often used:
Personality is a dynamic organisation, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings. G.W. Allport, 1961
More or less stable, internal factors make one person’s behaviour consistent from one time to another, and different from the behaviour other people would manifest in comparable situations. Child, 1968
Both these definitions emphasize that personality is an internal process that guides behaviour. Gordon Allport(1961) makes the point that personality is psychophysical, which means both physical and psychological. Recent research has shown that biological and genetic phenomena do have an impact on personality. Child(1968) makes the point that personality is stable- or at least relatively stable. We do not change dramatically from week to week. We can predict how our friends will behave, and we expect them to behave in a recognizably similar way from one day to the next.