Concept Of Personality

We all occasionally hear this word “Personality”.

But what does it mean actually?

Well, personality is a word taken originally from another word “Persona” means mask.

And to determine the same in various different people many approaches were introduced including in Indian culture.

But let us categorize all of them in three Parts.

• Type: in this, people are generally expected to have a similar set of abilities, if they have any of the single traits in personality categorization.

There n number of psychologists who experimented with the same.

Mainly all these approaches are triggered by certain hormones when a person is dealt with.

• Trait: in this, people are sorted on the basis of the trait they show.Like more sociable or not etc

It is easier to understand this approach as in this people aren’t categorized but supposed to be having a single trait. And as an outgrowth, many psychologists experimented with the same.

Like Carl Jung who proposed the introvert and extrovert typology and some also contributed to show the physical symptoms and risk factors after they recognized that a person is having this certain type of personality like of Friedman & Rosenman, they categorised people in three originally. Later one more contributed and with each typology, they stated the risk factor for example in Type A they stated people who are always on the go and lack patience, etc. They mainly face problems like hypertension of cardiac arrest or Type C in which most of the people are prone to cancer but they have a perosnlaity of having unassertiveness and cooperation etc and the type D which was introduced much later show that these people are prone to depression.

Each psychologist prepared a set of Questionnaire to determine the degree of a certain trait resides in an individual.

Each Questionnaire always assesses a certain set of traits like whether a person is outgoing or not, help people or not, etc.

• Interactional: in this, people are expected to be influenced by the circumstances in which they perform a certain reaction.

With time focus shifted towards the situations, not individuals which gave birth to the interactional approach.it insists thattraits and situtions both play a vital role in displaying the personality. And these aren’t alone at which a person has both things while faced a certain circumstance he/she have hormonal changes which help in the certain reaction of that individual.