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NITESH KUMAR SHARMA SHREYA BHARGAWA

HINAL DWIVEDI
• The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and
interact with others.

• How people affect others and how they understand and view
themselves, as well as their pattern of inner and outer
measurable traits and the person-situation interaction.

• How people affect others depends on external appearance

(height, weight, facial features, color, and other physical
aspects) and traits.
CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY

■ Personality originates from Latin word, Persona, which means Mask.

■ Personality consist of a person’s characteristics like physique, appearance,

intellect, knowledge, psyche, expression or performance.

■ Personality of person is the impression that his characteristics creates on

others

■ Personality is a term that has many general meanings. Sometimes the word
refers to the ability to get along well socially. 
 TRAIT THEORY

Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics
that describe an
individual’s behavior.
 THE MYRES-BRIGS TYPE
INDICATOR
A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies people into 1 to
16 personality types.

Personality Types

 Extroverted vs. Introverted (E or

I)
 Sensing vs. Intuitive (S or N)
 Thinking vs. Feeling (T or F)
 Judging vs. Perceiving (P or J)
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

– Personaity Development is continous process.

– Personality development can be seen through different stages of age of an

individual
– These stages have been described differently by different personality
theories. These description may be classified into :

1. Freudian Stages
2. Neo-Freudian Stages (Erikson’s Psychological
Stages)
FREUD STAGES
ERIKSON’S PSYCHOLOGICAL STAGES
MATURITY AND IMMATURITY
THE BIG FIVE MODEL OF
PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS
MAJOR PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTES
INFLUENCING OB

1. Locus of control
2. Machiavellianism
3. Self-Esteem
4. Self –Monitoring
5. Risk Taking
6. Type A Personality
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