Characteristics of Personality

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SEMINAR

SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

TOPIC : CHARACTERISTICS OF
PERSONALITY

SUBMITTED BY

SANGEETH I.V

ROLL NO. 31
Characteristics of personality

Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve
from biological and environmental factors.

1. Consistency – Recognizable order and regularity


2. Psychological and physiological – psychological construct
– biological process
3. Behaviors and actions – personality influence how we
move and respond in our environment, also causes us to act
in certain ways
4. Multiple expressions – behaviours, thoughts, feelings, close
relationships and social interations.

5.Personality is something which is unique in each individual

Personality refers to internal as well as external qualities, some of which are quite general. But it
is unique to each individual. It is not possible for any other individual to reproduce or imitate the
qualities of the personality of the individual.

6. Personality refers particularly to persistent qualities of an individual

Every individual has certain feeling as well as other permanent traits and qualities. Personality is
mainly composed of the persistent or permanent qualities that exhibit themselves in form of
social behaviour and attempt to make adjustment with the environment.

7. Personality represents a dynamic orientation of organism to environment

Personality represents the process of learning. It takes place in reference to the environment. We
do not acquire all the traits of personality all at once.
8. Personality is greatly influenced by social interactions

Personality is not an individual quality. It is a result of social- interaction. In other words, it


means that when we come in contact with other members of the society, we acquire certain
qualities while we exhibit certain others. All these come to form personality.

9. Personality represents a unique organisation of persistent dynamic and social


predisposition

In personality various qualities are not put together. They are, in fact, integrated into one. This
integration is nothing but a result of organisation which may be different from man to man. The
behaviour of a person directed to one particular individual may differ from the behaviour of
another person. That is why; we put the condition of suitable environment. This suitability is
concerned with individual specificity.
Bibliography
Borgatta, E. F. (1964). The structure of personality characteristics. Behavioral science, 9(1), 8-17.

Hogan, R. T. (1991). Personality and personality measurement.

Matthews, G., Deary, I. J., & Whiteman, M. C. (2003). Personality traits. Cambridge University Press.

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