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Personality psychology
Paula Umutoni
4/12/2021
PSY-255
Dr. Kevin Brown
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Personality is the dynamic integration of the totality of a person's subjective experience
and behavior patterns, including conscious, concrete, and habitual behaviors, self, and the
surrounding world, deliberate, clear psychic thinking, and regular desires and fears. It also
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Cherry, 2020). The other characteristic is the multiple expressions; personality is displayed in
more than just behavior. People can also see the character in their thoughts, feelings, close
relationships, and other social interactions (K. Cherry, 2020).
Personality type can also connect to your health, including how you often visit the
doctor and cope with stress. Researchers have found that specific personality characteristics may
be linked to illness and health behavior (K. Cherry, 2020). Understanding the psychology of
personality is very simple as an academic exercise. Character is essential in medicine, health,
business, economics, technology, and many others. To build a better understanding of mainly
how personality works, we can look for new ways to improve personal and public health (K.
Cherry, 2020).
Personality comprises three levels of psychological individuality dispositional traits,
and characteristics adaptations lie the motives, goals, and the integrative life stories. Traits
adaptations and reports include the three most recognizable variations on human psychological
nature grounded in the human evolutionary heritage and situated in cultural and historical
contexts (W. Revelle, 2013). Although some term personality refers to all aspects of a person's
individuality, typical usage divides the field into studies of ability and personality. Personality
measures are usually the estimates of average performance. This includes reports of preferences
and assessments of what one usually does and how one perceives oneself and is perceived by
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includes unconscious behavior patterns, experiences and views, and intentional states (O.F.
Kernberg, 2016). It is a dynamic integration so far as it implies an organized, integrated
association of multiple traits and experiences that influence each other, the outcome of
coordination of various dispositions (O.F. Kernberg, 2016).
Personality derives from the human organism's capacity to experience subjective states
that reflect the body's internal condition and the perception of the external environment within
which this functions (O.F. Kernberg, 2016). It includes discrete psychic functions such as effects,
perception, cognition and instrumental as well as declarative memory, and various levels of self-
reflective processes, from relatively simple mirroring of perceived and intended motor
movements and perceived sensory experiences to a complex self-reflective evaluation of
cognitive and affective states (O.F. Kernberg, 2016).
At its most basic, personality is characteristics patterns of thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors, making a person very unique. It is believed that personality emerges from within the
individual and remains pretty consistent throughout life (K. Cherry, 2020).
Characteristics of personality
The characteristics include consistency which is usually a recognizable order and
regularity to most behaviors. Essentially, people act in similar ways—the other factors
psychological and physiological, the behaviors and actions. Personality mainly influences how
we move and respond in our day-to-day environment and causes us to act in specific ways (K.
others (W. Revelle, 2013).
Some term personality as all aspects of a person's individuality, typical usage divides the
field into ability and personality studies. The ability tests are usually viewed as maximal
performance measures; the ability is constructed as the best one can do on a particular measure in
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a limited time, which is the speed test or unlimited time, which is the power test (W. Revelle,
2013). Personality measures are estimates of average performance and typically include reports
of preferences and assessments of what one usually does and how one perceives oneself and is
perceived (W. Revelle, 2013).
Measures of ability and personality mainly reflect observations aggregated across
time and occasion and require inferences about stable latent traits to account for various observed
behaviors. Other individual differences are readily apparent to outside observers and require little
or no inference about latent characteristics (W. Revelle, 2013). The most common variables like
sex, age, height, and weight. These are the differences that require some knowledge, and
inference are differences in ethnicity and social-economic status. The apparent group differences
are sometimes analyzed in terms of the more subtle personality and ability measures or real-life
outcomes, examples being sex differences in neuroticism, mathematics ability, or income (W.
Revelle, 2013).
Most researches on personality traits explain their impact on human behaviors in
different situations. The theory of personality postulates that people naturally deal with various
problems and interact with their environment differently. An individual's personality can provide
valuable information about the best method of communicating with them and identifying what
types of jobs and tasks they are most suitable for; however, the personality traits may also be the
key indicators of the other facets of an individual's life (I. Ali, 2019).
The five personality traits
Although several popular models o personality traits continue to influence most researches.
Personality builds upon the 35 bipolar clusters of terms related to personality traits developed
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and the classic Myers Briggs type indicator by adding an important personality trait. They
include neuroticism or emotional stability, which is the core domain predictive of depression and
anxiety disorders (I. Ali, 2019).
The five personality traits include extroversion, which is how individuals engage with the
external world and experience enthusiasm and other positive emotions. The second trait is
agreeableness, which is how individuals value cooperation and social harmony, honesty,
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decency, and trustworthiness. Agreeable individuals also tend to have another view: the
optimistic view of human nature (I. Ali, 2019). The third trait is conscientiousness, which is how
individuals value planning and possess the quality of persistence ad are achievement-oriented (I.
Ali, 2019).
The fourth trait is neuroticism, which is how individuals experience negative feelings and
tend to overreact emotionally. The fifth ad the last trait is the openness to experience, which is
the extent to which individuals exhibit intellectual curiosity, self-awareness, individualism, and
nonconformance (I. Ali, 2019). A number of the mini markers of each personality trait have been
defined and studied. They include talkative or extraversion sympathetic for agreeableness
disorganized for conscientiousness, temperamental for neuroticism, and imaginative for the
openness to the experience (I. Ali, 2019).
The positive attributes associated with extraversion include being friendly, assertive, and
active. This allows extroverted individuals to create and engage with their social networks
successfully. The qualities of enthusiasm and positive emotions enable extroverted individuals to
try new things (I. Ali, 2019). Extraversion positively affects the level of individual
innovativeness. Extraversion might determine an individual's propensity to socialize;
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agreeableness is an essential determinant of whether the individual is accepted by social groups
and can effectively maintain the social and business relationship, which are vital for the success
of innovative initiatives (I. Ali, 2019).
Where does personality come from?
Our personalities come from or develop around basic needs. The proper psychological
needs come with the need to predict our world, build competence to act on our planet, and
because we are social beings, the need for acceptance from others (Dweck, C.S, 2017). Infants
arrive highly prepared to meet the needs; they are brilliant, voracious learners looking for
market-relevant information. Then as infants, they usually try to meet their needs, and this leads
to something meaningful. They start building beliefs about their world and their role in it. These
beliefs, plus the emotions and the actions tendencies that are sorted with them, are termed
BEATS (Dweck, C.S, 2017).
These represent the accumulated experiences people have had trying to meet their
needs and BEATS. They usually form the basis of personality, and they drive and guide the
visible part. The visible part happens when the conditions and BEATS create the actual goals
people pursue in what people can do (Dweck, C.S, 2017). Research shows that most people hold
the belief that their abilities are the fixed traits. When they are confronted with a slightly
challenging task carries a risk. It could expose their improved ability as deficient, which could
undermine their sense of competence (Dweck, C.S, 2017).
Temperament can also be important. An example, when children are shy and fearful,
it can make specific needs, such as the need for predictability, more substantial than others, it can
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affect the way they react to things that happen to them both which can mold the BEATS they
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develop and carry forward (Dweck, C.S, 2017). Our personality develops around our daily
motivations, our needs, and goals and is not only about traits we are born with. This reveals the
invisible parts of character and shows how we can identify and address essential BEATS,
particularly the beliefs to promote personality change (Dweck, C.S, 2017).
Why is a personality report critical?
The person-situation debate is probably one of the most significant debates in the history
of psychology. Most of the empirical issues that ignited the discussion have been resolved.
Many researchers recognize that both the characteristics of persons and situations have essential
effects on behavior. Personality traits help predict cognitions, emotions, and behaviors across
many problems, and features of a specific situation are useful I making successful predictions of
a given individual (A. Pinon, 2019).
Several meta-analyses have found robust statistically significant relations between
personality characteristics and a wide variety of variables. An example is conscientiousness
shows consistent connections with job proficiency and training proficiency, neuroticism, and
extraversion influence job satisfaction; males are more assertive and have slightly higher self-
esteem than females (A. Pinon, 2019). The females are more elevated than males in
tendermindedness, extraversion, anxiety, and trust, repressive defensiveness, trust, emotional
stability, locus of control chance, the desire of control, hardiness, positive affectivity, private
collective esteem, and tension are closely associated wellbeing (A. Pinon, 2019).
Researchers tend to describe situational variables reasonably well in their studies. Most
psychology focus on static situations, that is, the situational variables that do not or cannot
change. The majority are simply following the current conventions of their field (A. Pinon,
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2019). Most psychologists recognize that human beings are complex psychological entities
composed of multiple dimensions. Honesty, or the humility factor, and the other five factors
model include its broader agreeableness factor (A. Pinon, 2019).
While personality is relatively stable over time, it also subjects to change across the
entire lifespan. Researchers have identified normative and differential development patterns
affected by biological and environmental factors, specific life events, and social role
investments. However, on a micro-analytical level, little is known about the underlying process
model of personality development that incorporates and builds on previous process approaches to
personality (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017).
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The power of personality
Personality traits usually can predict important life outcomes has traditionally been
frequently questioned because of the putative minor effects of personality. Results show that the
magnitude of personality traits on mortality, divorce, and occupational attainment was
indistinguishable from socioeconomic status and the cognitive ability of these outcomes (K.
Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017). This demonstrates the influence of personality traits on
important life outcomes and highlights the need to routinely incorporate personality measures
into quality surveys(K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017).
Personality psychology began a profound renaissance and how now become an
extraordinarily diverse and intellectually stimulating field. Personality traits predict essential
outcomes in life such as health longevity, marital success, and educational and occupational
attainment (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017). Personality traits are also related to health,
love, and achievement is not a stringent test of the utility of personality traits. These associations
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could be the third variable results, such as the socioeconomic status (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk,
et al., 2017).
Personality tests how individuals negotiate the tasks they face across their lives, then the
processes contributing to the development of those traits. There has been a tendency in
personality and developmental research to focus on personality traits how they continue to
change in adulthood (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017). Socializing factors may affect
personality traits changes as the resulting changes would then be leveraged across multiple
domains of life (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017).
It is essential to recognize that it may be possible to improve individuals' lives by
targeting those processes without directly changing the personality trait driving those processes.
In all prevention and intervention work, it will be essential to attend to the possibility that most
personality traits can have positive or negative effects depending on the outcomes in question,
the presence of other psychological attributes, and the environmental context (K. Geukes & M.
Van Zalk, et al., 2017). Personality research has led to a contentious history, and there are still
vestiges of doubt about the importance of personality traits. Personality traits are just as crucial
as socioeconomic status and IQ in predicting these essential life outcomes (K. Geukes & M. Van
Zalk et al., 2017).
The three domains of individual differences in the level of and contingencies between
state processes. Goals and strategies, actions and experiences, and the evaluations and
reflections. These process domains build a continuous sequence with each part guiding state
processes (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk, et al., 2017). Well-established effects of environmental
and biological structures, social roles, age, and life events on personality trait development can
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be explained by systematic links of these macro-level determinants to the outlined micro-level
state processes (K. Geukes & M. Van Zalk et al., 2017).
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