Personality refers to attitude, intellect, will power and emotional patterns that evolve from various factors like heredity, parenting, spiritual gifts, one’s experiences, environment etc. Personality may be of two types-introverts, that is those who have a negative approach in life, they don’t like to interact with others, they tend to avoid company due to fear of rejection, they avoid eye contact, and are shy and fearful. Any type of personality may be adopted through practice and it may change with what life throws at us. Forgiveness, compassion and love can change the perspective of an introvert and make him/her to become an extrovert without any effort. There are children who are not treated with love and respect right from childhood. They feel rejected and lack of father’s love leads them to become an introvert as they are not complete. God can make us complete when humans fail to provide us the respect our souls deserve. Second personality type is that of an extrovert. Extroverts seem to be fulfilled within themselves so they are able to give love to others. They are generally optimistic, outgoing, confident, and love to face the world boldly. So we must not generalize or judge any personality type and accept every person as they are. One’s persona sends a signal that others can read. Reputation is what people think you are, personality is what you seem to be, it may be a mask that you wear in public, whereas character is who you really are, i.e- how your soul is. Character is when you are the same in your room and to the world outside, that makes a person real. Personality is a combination of various factors like appearance, manners, habits, taste and moral character. Good habits may be inculcated through practice and hence is reflected in what we think, say and do. One can work towards a better personality by creating a balance of various factors like spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, financial, environmental, and intellectual. Good personality makes us responsible citizens and hence we are able to serve the society in a better way.
Factors influencing our personality
Personality is affected by genetic, environmental, transactional, and stochastic influences.
1. GENETICS
With the influence of genetic resemblance excluded, children from the same family frequently
look no more alike than randomly chosen strangers; and identical twins raised apart are just as
similar in personality as identical twins raised together. These results indicate that the mutual
family atmosphere has virtually no effect on personality development, and that parental
similarity is almost entirely due to shared genetics.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL
Many researchers were shocked by the weakness of shared environmental effects in shaping
personality, which sparked research into non-shared environmental effects, the environmental
factors that differentiate siblings. The non-shared environment may include unequal care by
parents, individually distinct responses to the shared family environment, peer pressures,
outside family interactions, and measurement error testing. The non-shared world can also
involve the specific roles and experiences faced in adults after they leave the family of origin.
Research shows that various jobs, marital, and family interactions are correlated with changes
in personality; these findings are reinforced by studies concerning the influence on personality
of both positive and negative life events.
Gene-environment interactions: Analysis culmination indicates that personality formation
occurs with respect to one's genetics, one's environment, and the relationship between one's
genetics and environment.
The corresponding theory of personality development states that life experiences can, accentuate and strengthen the personality traits which were partially responsible for the specific environmental elicitations. This principle explains how interactions between the genes and the environment sustain and strengthen personality during life. Three main types of gene- environment interactions are active, passive and reactive. Active means the mechanism by which individuals with certain genotypes pick and create environments that promote the expression of these genotypes. Passive means the process by which genetic parents provide both genes and early environmental influences that contribute to the development of their children's characteristics. Reactive means the process by which non-family individuals react in a characteristic manner to behavior generated by a genotype.
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