Before discussing the DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY, it is necessary to define that WHAT IS ‘PERSONALITY?’ I have already defined it with quiet a detail in my other article. To read about Personality in detail, click HERE.
After the definition of Personality, we turn ourselves back to the DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY or PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS or FACTORS OF PERSONALITY (whatever you may call it) and study some other basic concepts of personality on our way down.
It
is generally known that “Personality is the outcome of continuous personal
quality development process. There may be different roles played by a single
personality in different situations. So the personality is best recognized, defined
and analyzed in a given particular situation.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO
ANALYSE YOUR OWN PERSONALITY (Yes! If you want to identify your characteristics
and traits and want to better understand yourself.)
Open the below given
link, and after reading the following article, attempt a personality test –
link has been given in that article.
http://hubpages.com/hub/3HOW-YOU-CAN-CLASSIFY-YOUR-PERSONALITY-CHARACTERISTICS-AND-TRAITS
And
make sure that before reading all this articles, you must have read the most
basic and fundamental article of this series, that “WHAT IS PERSONALITY?”
ABOUT PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS:
Personality does not evolved by a single factor.
It is a mixture of a lot of things. Some of those factors are psychological,
some are physical, some are biological and some are even hereditary. So, I have
compiled some of the basic factors that hold great importance when we talk
about PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS:
1. Brain
Brain is one of the most important factors of personality
determinant. It is generally believed that the father and the child adopt
almost the same type of brain stimulation and the later differences are the
result of the environment in which the child has been grown up.
Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB) and Split Brain
Psychology (SBP) and the outcomes of genetic transmissions and are the tools
that are used by the management of any organization to mould and amend the
employee ’s behavior to a more positive and proper one.
2. Physical Factors
One
of the most important factors in determining personality is the ‘Physical
Characteristics ’ of an individual. It is believed that this factor plays a
vital role in determining one ’s behavior in any organization. Physical features
may involve the height of a person (short or tall), his color (white or black),
his health status (fat or skinny) and his beauty (handsome or ugly).
These
factors are involved when interacting with any other person and thus contribute
in the personality development in many ways.
3. Social Factors
Social factors also play a vital role in determining one ’s
personality. The things that revolve and evolve around us on a regular basis
determine our personality. The society that we live in, the cultural
environment that we face daily, the community we get interacted to, all are
included in this factor. Relationships, co-ordination, co-operation,
interaction, environment in the family, organizations, workplaces, communities,
societies all contribute in way or another as personality determinants.
4. Cultural and Religious Factors:
The culture in which one lives in, that may involve traditional
practices, norms, customs, procedures, rules and regulations, precedents and
values, all are important determinants of personality.
Moreover, the creed, religion and believes are also very
important factors of personality determinants.
5. Heredity Factor:
Perhaps, the most surprising and astonishing factor (at
least in my eyes) is the “Heredity Factor”. When I first read about that, I was
quite stunned and really gave a bow to nature. The example which I read was
really interesting, and I am writing the same extract that I read.
NOTE: This extract is being taken by the book “Essentials of
Organizational Behavior – 10th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins,
Timothy A. Judge and Seema Sanghi”
This book says:
Researchers in my many different countries have studies thousands of sets of identical twins who were separated at birth and raised separately. If heredity played little of no part in determining personality, you would expect to find few similarities between the separated twins. But the researchers found a lot in common. For instance, one set of twins who had been separated for 39 years and raised 45 miles apart, were found to drive the same model and color car. They chain-smoked the same brand of cigarette, owned dogs with the same name, and regularly enjoyed vacations within three blocks of each other in a beach community 1,500 miles away.
Yes I know it was a bit shocking 😛
This book also reveals a wonderful fact about the study of
identical twins. It says:
Interestingly, the twin studies have suggested the parental environment
does not add much to our personality development. In other words, the
personalities of identical twins raised in different households are more
similar to each other than to the personalities of the siblings they were
actually raised with. Ironically, the most important contribution our parents
may have made to our personalities is giving us their genes!
The
above extract really added to my knowledge, so I found it interesting to share
with you all (with all the courtesy and respect to the authors). Heredity IS
really an important factor in the determinants of personality. Physical structure,
facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, energy level, aggression, element
of love are some of the most notable features that affect the interaction with
others and thus formulate the personality, BUT these things their selves come
from the ‘Heredity Factor ’.
THE NEXT ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES AFTER DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY IS:
HOW CAN YOU CLASSIFY YOUR PERSONALITY, CHARACTERISTICS AND
TRAITS?
I hope you may have found the above personality
determinants interesting and useful. Any corrections, feedbacks, opinions and
comments are welcome =)
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