Determinants of Personality
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Determinants of Personality:
Each individual has unique personality.
Have you ever think how personality is shaped? There are certain factors which
shape personality of individual called determinants of personality. A survey of
works of different psychologist brings forward a plethora of determinants of
personality. Here to keep things basic we will discuss the generic determinants
of personality .
These are:
· - Heredity,
· - Culture,
· - Family Background,
· - Our Experiences through
Life,
· - And the People we interact with
Heredity:
Oxford dictionary describes heredity as the
passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one
generation to another. We inherit certain traits, such as the colour of our
eyes, the shape of our face and body from our father, grandfather and great
grandfather. Mainly these four aspects of personality we inherit- body build
physical attractiveness, physical defects and health conditions from our
ancestors. Most people are born with a mixture of traits. Heredity forms your
basic personality. And then the effects of our environment add to our
personality development.
Culture:
Culture can be defined as the ideas,
customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. We learn
values and inclination from our culture and it shapes our behaviour. Behaviour
defines our personality .Thus people born in different cultures tend to develop
different types of personalities. In India we can find diversity in cultural
backgrounds and each culture has some general features that highlight
personality of people of that culture in general. For example, people from
Gujarat are more enterprising, people from Haryana are daring and people from
Bengal are creative and have great intellectual bend. Also it is not necessary
that all people belonging to a culture showcase the similar personality trait
but in general according to culture the dominating personality trait is found in majority of
people.
Family Background:
Family is the smallest unit of society
.Family is a group of people related by blood or marriage. The foremost
influencer after heredity to shape personality of a baby is family. Many
aspects of family like background and education of parents, socio-economic
status, the number of children in the family and birth order and extended
members of the family such as uncles and aunts influence the shaping of
personality to a considerable extent. Think once your liking –disliking, way of
problem solving, way of expressing your feelings etc. all are one in other way
a reflection of what you have learned from your family.
Experiences in Life:
One of the famous quotes by Julio Caesar -
"Experience is the teacher of all things" best explains this determinant
of personality. Your personality might have kindness as a trait but repeated
experience in your life where you felt cheated due to kindness can influence
your this personality trait for future .Suppose three such incidents happened
to you with three different individuals in the past few months where you have
given money but they never came back to you. What is the probability that you
would trust another person who comes and asks you for a loan tomorrow? Rather
low, one would think. Thus, certain personality characteristics are moulded by
frequently occurring positive or negative experiences in life.
People We Interact With:
"A Person is known by the company he
or she keeps" is a common proverb. We interact with an array of people in
our life like – neighbours, teachers, classmates, schoolmates, friends, cousin,
colleagues, boss and even strangers etc. People who are alike us in attitude
and value we persuade them and associate with them. Even we change our
behaviours to get accepted and associated with them whom we like. For instance,
we may have to become less aggressive, more cooperative to work successfully in
a team etc. Thus, our personality becomes shaped throughout our lives by at
least some of the people and groups we interact with.
Personality Development:
Thus, personality development is a
continuous and multi-faceted process which requires a set of skills that need
to be learned and at times unlearned. The need to develop your personality in
line with personal and professional requirements underlines the process of
personality development. This is true
particularly in the present times where sea-change has occurred in the realm of
industries, where now only technical knowledge of doing things is not the sole
criteria of selection and where wide cluster of skills are required to cater to
the changing demand of industry. In this assortment of wide cluster of skills
the social attractiveness of personality is paramount important.
Now the question arises how can we develop
a personality which is most suitable for corporates? What are the areas of our
personality which we should fine tune to become an asset for any industry.
To answer this question, first we should
remember that every industry is a people to people industry these days.
For example: Tour and Travel industry.
The comfort of five star hotel room like
high quality bed and linen, best of antiques in room, international quality
good food, costly furniture etc. are useless if the people serving in hotel
lack professional serving attitude, manners, and communication skills and have
poor hygiene sense etc. Thus, essentially we can say that to have a happy
customer (tourist) at the end of the day the people serving in any industry
should have:
·
Positive Attitude to work
·
Well Groomed Personality to
create first impression.
·
Social Etiquettes &
Telephonic Etiquettes
Professional
Body Language
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