PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Personality is defined by Allport as below.

“ Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to the environment”

It is a complex structure of traits( mental structure) as viewed by Cattell. It is an inference made from the observed consistency in behaviour.

Thinking, feeling and behaving constitute the methods of adjustment of individual towards Environment.

The personality Traits may be positive or Negative.

The positive traits make the individual to cope with the people and environment and events.

The negative trait will produce loneliness, anxiety and failures.

Through proper training and practice in the following areas the individuals personality can be developed.

1. Psychological (emotional) adjustment.
2. Self analysis
3. Self confidence.
4. Stress management.
5. Community activities.
6. Religion and culture.
7. Self hypnosis.
8. Assertiveness.
9. Anger control.
10. Interpersonal relationship.
11. Communication skills.
12. Leadership quality.

Comments

Amaresan.. said…
Self confidence is the heart of personality developement.
In ancient days our education used to identify individual's caliber and nurture in their strengths. Now I see our education is dissolving people's skill. Because of this people are not excelling in their fields in the global arena. When people are focused on learning and know what they are learning/doing, then it will improve their self confidence, what i meant was; not just by understanding those concepts but by innovating/experimenting what they learnt. People think they are learning but in the current scenario they are just reading stuff and try to reproduce as it is to prove their academic excellence. When I was a electrical engineering student, I was curious to know whats happening in my field so on my semester vacation, i made sure to go to some power plants(source of electricity :-) ) and other electrical industries. When I went to ennore thermal power plant, I was going thro various divisions to see whats happening, there was a place at which the generated electricity was about to distribute, the power lines were made out of pipe (hollow). The senior engineer on duty, was asking the trainees, why hollow pipe instead of a wire. I was shooting at him before he finished his question with the answer "skin effect". That was one of the occasion where the theory was put in use. The experiments that was done in the labs hardly cover the whole range of things we study. My point in explaining all these is, unless you see it by yourself you wont become confident enough to explain it some one.(sometimes that someone may be ourselves). I think we should go back to our gurukool days! Some people think going back is going backwards. Thats not true always. Because of the british our system was busted.
Also when I think of personality developement from the west, i can think of Napolean Hill and Dale carnigie. I will post more comments on other aspects of personality developements.
September 14, 2008 at 10:02 PM
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