An individual's personality is an aggregate conglomeration of decisions we've made throughout our lives (Bradshaw[who?]).

There are inherent natural, genetic, and environmental factors that contribute to the development of our personality. According to process of socialization, "personality also colors our values, beliefs, and expectations ... Hereditary factors that contribute to personality development do so as a result of interactions with the particular social environment in which people live." There are several personality types as Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers illustrated in several personalities typology tests, which are based on Carl Jung's school of Analytical psychology. However, these tests only provide enlightenment based on the preliminary insight scored according to the answers judged by the parameters of the test. Other theories on personality development include Jean Piaget's stages of development, Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development, and personality development in Sigmund Freud's theory being formed through the interaction of id, ego, and super-ego.

Contents [hide] 1 Personality development 2 Freud's Psychoanalytic theory 2.1 Drives 2.2 Structure of personality 2.3 Tripartite personality 2.4 Defense Mechanisms 3 Psychosexual Stages 4 References 5 External links [edit]Personality development

Personality is defined as the enduring personal characteristics of individuals.[1] Although some psychologists frown on the premise, a commonly used explanation for personality development is the psychodynamic approach. The term ambot describes any theory that emphasizes the constant change and development of the individual. Perhaps the best known of the psychodynamic theories is Freudian psychoanalysis. [edit]Freud's Psychoanalytic theory

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Psychoanalytic theory. (Discuss) Proposed since October 2009. [edit]Drives Freud believed that two basic drivessex and aggressionmotivate all our thoughts and behaviour. He referred to these as Eros (love) and Thanatos. Eros represents the life instinct, sex being the major driving force. Thanatos represents the death instinct (characterised by aggression), which, according to Freud, allowed the human race to both procreate and eliminate its enemies. [edit]Structure of personality Freud conceived the mind as only having a fixed amount of psychic energy (libido). The outcome of the interaction between the id, ego and the superego, (each contending for as much libidinal energy as possible) determines our adult personality. [edit]Tripartite personality Freud believed that personality had three partsthe id, ego, and super-egoreferring to this as the tripartite personality. The id allows us to get our basic needs met. Freud believed that the id is based on the pleasure principle, i.e. it wants immediate satisfaction, with no consideration for the reality of the situation.[2] As a child interacts more with the world, the ego begins to develop. The ego's job is to meet the needs of the id by taking into account the constraints of reality. The ego acknowledges that being impulsive or selfish can sometimes hurt us, so the id must be constrained. The superego develops during the phallic stage as a result of the moral constraints placed on us by our parents. It is generally believed that a strong superego serves to inhibits the biological instincts of the id (resulting in a high level of guilt), whereas a weak superego allows the id more expression (resulting in a low level of guilt).[3] [edit]Defense Mechanisms The ego, having a difficult time trying to satisfy both the needs of the id and the superego, employs defense mechanisms. Repression is perhaps the most powerful of these. Repression is the act by which unacceptable id impulses (most of which are sexually related) are "pushed" out of awareness and into the unconscious mind. Another example of a defense mechanism is projection. This is the mechanism that Freud used to explain Little Hans' complex. Little Hans is said to have projected his fear for his father onto horses, which is why he was afraid of them. [edit]Psychosexual Stages

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Psychosexual development. (Discuss) Proposed since October 2009. Freud believed that at particular points in the child's development, a single part of the body is particularly sensitive to sexual stimulation. These erogenous zones are the mouth, anus and the genital region. At any given time, the child's libido is focused on the primary eurogenous zone for that age. As a result, the child has certain needs and demands that are related to the eurogenous zones for that stage. Frustration occurs if these needs are not met, but, a child may also become overindulged, and so may be reluctant to progress beyond the stage. Both frustration and overindulgence may lead to fixationsome of the child's libido remains locked into that stage. If a child is fixated at a particular stage, the method of obtaining satisfaction that characterised that stage will dominate their adult personality. Although many people view Freud's descriptions of personality development as pure fantasy, his ideas have endured and have had far reaching influences both in and outside psychology. Freud has changed the way we think about the importance of childhood, and also made us aware of the unconscious elements of our psyche that are essential for development. [edit]References DEVELOPING POSITIVE PERSONALITY

1. Subconscious Programming :

Most of us sometimes get programmed / conditioned by a wrong messages that donot do that, dont take the risk, you can not do that you are not good in and so on.. You can imagine the bad effect such message can have on any person.

Fig- I : Subconscious Mind Programming Our Conscious Mind is like a watch man. And the Subconscious Mind is a store of all the previously programmed or conditioned information / knowledge/ believes. Now programming personality means putting positive believes/ information into the store with out the knowledge of the watchman (conscious mind).

Suppose you tell yourself that you are good at Public Speaking. And the store has stored based on peoples comments and experience that you are poor in communication you can not speak well in public, you dont have an impressive body language .. The watch man sees your sentence and compares it with the knowledge in its store and says this information is wrong. The watchman throws the new information away. He does not allow the new positive information into the store. This is the fundamental difficulty in changing personality & behavior of a person. Personality Development: Be Who You Want to Be Glen / 55 Comments / April 23rd, 2009 / Subscribe via RSS Personality is an interesting subject, and not a topic I wanted to cover until I had thoroughly done my research. After-all, even just the word personality means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Our personality actually plays a huge part in how we perceive the world and how the world perceives us so I think it is an important subject to cover. This site is all about living the life you want to live and being who you want to be and I think its safe to say that we each view someones personality as a large part of what makes them who they are. With that in mind, lets look at how you can change yours for your own benefit.

Photo Credit What is Our Personality? I searched around for some definitions of this term and I have to say that my favourite is rather basic: A set of qualities that make a person distinct from another. Nice, simple, to the point and the exact definition that Ive come to think the word means through my 19 years of existence. On top of that statement, I, like many others, believe that our personality includes our beliefs and values so this is the understanding of the word Im going to use here. Feel free to substitute your own definition and still go through the process towards the middle of this post. How It Is Formed Your current personality, whatever it may be, has been formed in a number of ways. Psychologists have studied human personalities for years and have come to a number of conclusions. First of all, it is believed that certain traits in our character are hereditary, yet things like our values and beliefs are derived from socialization and unique experiences, mostly from childhood. Based on that statement, its likely that the personality of you and anyone you know is based on: Social experiences (especially from childhood)

Unique experiences that you have had in your lifetime The environment in which you grew up and how you had to act While most of this might seem obvious, there is some strong research which suggests that a lot of our current personality is in-fact, genetic. As an example, researchers from the University of Minnesota studied 8,000 twins who had been separated shortly after birth and reunited later in life for whatever reason. They found that even though one of the twins may have lived a completely different live in a different environment, their behaviours were still almost identical. I dont think I like the idea that our personality and specifically our behaviours are largely proven to be based around our genetic make-up. That being said, I still believe it is entirely possible to change your personality and literally be whoever you want to be. Designing your Own Personality Before continuing with the following steps on designing your own personality, spend a few minutes thinking of the personalities of people in your life. I have some close friends that I know whenever I see them they will cheer me up because they are happy and very positive. On the other hand, I also have friends that are close, but I can always predict how they will react in certain situations and it is usually in a negative manner. I think all of you can relate to my situation of having friends who you love to be around and other friends who you do care about, but make you feel drained when you spend time with them. The whole point of this post and personality development in general is to develop the characteristics you want to have rather than the ones youve been conditioned with. Following are four steps that I have personally used in the past month to help bring about a change in my own personality that have allowed me to literally be the type of person I want to be. If you are just a skim reader, do not take any advice in this post. The sections in bold need their descriptions to be read in order to have this process result in the kind of personality that you want. 1. Be Honest With Your Current Traits How would you describe yourself right now? Personally I think I have quite a split personality. At times I can be quiet, I keep myself to myself and Im very considerate towards the feelings of others. At other times, I can be quite crazy, highly outgoing and literally oblivious to what people think and I dont really care. Its important that you are honest with your current traits so you can decide what you want to change. The position I would like to take my life requires me to be considerate to others so I wouldnt change that, but I also want to have other characteristics which dont necessarily compliment being considerate. If youve just spent the last few days in a negative spiral, cursing everything and thinking the world owes you a favour, then dont define yourself as someone who is happy and positive all the time. You may be

happy and positive some of the time, but you should be aware of the traits you arent so proud of as well as the ones that you are. Honest self-assessment is key to this step of the process. 2. Define the Qualities You Want to Have Because this is all about you being who you want to be, its time to pick the qualities that you want to have. I have to stress that is important that you do not go overboard on this part of the process and pick tons of qualities that you desire. It is far easier to focus on around 5 core qualities you would like to have at a time rather than a list of 20 or more. Some of the qualities that I picked for myself were: Independent Honest Positive Fun / Good sense of humour Trustworthy It is important you pick qualities that you want to have, rather than qualities you think people want you to have. I put honest and trustworthy on my list because they matter to me personally, but I also put positive because life is a toss-up between that and negative. Most people will say they want to be positive yet they unconsciously love drama in their lives, so really think about this before making your list. 3. Visualise Yourself for 21 Days with These Qualities The 21-day format has been without a doubt the most amazing thing I have came across in my life. I like to think that I semi-invented this idea because even though it is featured in the book Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, I cant find any evidence online of someone who had put a plan in place for this and implemented it (so I did). This third part of the process will involve you visualising yourself in any situation having the qualities that you want to have. There are a few things to remember during visualisations and the 21-day challenge: You must do this for 21 days without missing a day You need to visualise yourself being how you want to be in terms of the end result, not the process Your visualisations need to be as real as possible notice smells, colours, small details and sounds from your imagined environment

To give an example, If I want the quality of positivity to become natural, then each day I must spend a couple of minutes visualising myself being positive. For example I might visualise myself, as vividly as possible, being positive after an event that most people would struggle to remain happy about. I am aware of the fact that this idea will sound very silly if you have never tried it before. However, it is scientifically proven that our nervous system can not tell the difference between a real event and one that is vividly imagined. The 21 days that you will do this process for is enough time for new connections and pathways to form in your brain, thus imprinting your desired result sort of like a habitual auto-response. 4. Act as If They Are Present This is quite self explanatory, but in everyday life see if you can act as if your desired qualities are already present. If you want to be positive then be positive, if you wish to be honest then start implementing that in your life. This will get much, much easier as you get closer to the end of the 21 day challenge and this starts to become habitual. For those of you who do take this challenge I would love for you to come back in around three weeks and let me know how you get on. To everyone else, I would love your thoughts of the idea in general and what your thoughts are on changing our personalities. Lecture on Personality Development Monday, July 11, 2011, 4:20Articles, Career Counseling, Career counseling videos, EducationAdd a comment

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First of all we have to elaborate what is personality then we better understand how we can develop our personality. Have you ever seen an iceberg? The nature of iceberg is that all the icebergs looks like a tiny iceberg on the surface of sea but under the water there is a huge and heavy iceberg and the ships collide with these icebergs because the crew cant see the iceberg in real sense and mostly they think that the iceberg is far away from their way but under the water the iceberg is very huge and covered lot of space under the water.

Similarly the real personality of a person is not the physical appearance, it lies within a person. Our way of speaking, giving response, attitude and how we behave when we are sad or happy are the most

important parts of our personality. Our personality is not our physical appearance it based on your mental and emotional stability. Youll find many people who got angry on little matters and started to abuse other persons due to their aggressive personality. Some people think that physical appearance is also a necessary part of our personality but I dont think so because that if you find a person who is very beautiful and attractive also very much wealthy but if he/she is not mentally stable then you would obviously not considered him a balanced personality. Let me give you an other example that if you meet a very beautiful and attractive person but when you look into him/her you find that he/she is very much cruel, selfish and he/she have not manner to talk with other. You obviously dont consider him a balanced or good personality.

Now the question is that how we can develop our personality which is acceptable in our society and which would enhance our qualities and talent. There are lots of counselors and trainers who provide publish the material for the development of personality. Here one question is very important that why we need to develop our personality and is it cant develop automatically with the passage of time. Its true that we learn every thing with the passage of time and it also develops our personality gradually but some time there are some shortage can be found in a personality due lack of experience and exposure.

Now we are living in the modern age which is also known as knowledge age. Now the society became very competitive and if some one wants to excel in life he/she has to very intelligent and more talented than the others to compete with them. So now days personality development is the need of time.

Unfortunately there is no concept of personality development in Pakistan and most of the people dont focus on this side. There are very limited sessions and lectures for the personality development in Pakistan but still there are some counselor and trainer who are working on it and guiding people for their better future.

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Title of Thesis IMPACT OF SOCIO- CULTURAL FACTORS ON THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENTS

Author(s) UME-Laila Institute/University/Department Details Department of Rural Sociology/ University Agriculture, Faisalabad Session 2006 Subject Rural Sociology Number of Pages 184 Keywords (Extracted from title, table of contents and abstract of thesis) socio cultural factors, personality development, adolescents, children personality, class, race, religion, region, family, friends Abstract Children born and live not only in a society but also in a specific part of it, and are therefore, influenced by particular subcultures of class, race, religion, and region, as well as by specific groups such as family and friends. During their lifetime, they continually encounter new or changing conditions, both personal and social, and must learn to adjust to them. The most important socialization, however, occurs during infancy and childhood, when the foundations of later personality are laid. Whether a child becomes outgoing or shy, intellectually advanced or average, or energetic or subdued depends on many unique influences effects are difficult to predict at the child's birth. A variety of factors influence child development. Heredity guides every aspect of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and personality development. Family members,' peer groups, the school environment, and the community influence how children think, socialize, and become self-aware. In this research a cross sectional study was conducted in Faisalabad city The purpose was to study the impact of socio-cultural factors on the personality development of adolescents.

The study was confined to children of age 11-16 years. Mothers were interviewed through a wellstructured questionnaire consisting of open ended and close-ended questions. The sample size was 600 respondents. Faisalabad city was divided into three categories on the basis of upper, middle, and lower income groups by the Federal Bureau of Statistics and according to this criterion two localities from each category was selected randomly. Moreover focus group discussion from 36 persons representing different areas and income groups was also made to make their views part of this study.

This study entails with the major socio-cultural factors that affect the children personality. After a comprehensive research the factors which are identified as important determinants of child personality are parents economic conditions, their education level, family size, family structure, children's socialization level, peer group, school environment, parent's involvement level in children's day to day activities, extra curricular activities and government policies. On the basis of results and findings of the study, different recommendations are proposed, focusing on parents reasonability towards child education, governments role in providing equal quality education to all classes of children compared emphasizing on improving parent, teacher and children relationships. This study also highlighted and suggested areas of further research. Subject having potential to be studied individually. Moreover, the role of media and other new emerging sources of mass communication should also be investigated. More studies on children's psychology gives understanding to better personality development of children. Nurturing children in the best way is the key to attain broader objective of building an educated, well behaved society and nation and this objective can be achieved through conducting research on children psychology.