Course: Personality Development (UR-521) LECTURE # 3 Teacher: Dr. M.

Junaid Nadvi

FACTORS AFFECTING PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Personality development is affected by various temperaments(outlooks/moods). Therefore, this lecture

will attempt to identify those factors that affect or contribute to personality development.

1. Heredity-Factor: Heredity refers to those factors that were determined at origin. Heredity is
something that passes from generation to generation. Also called Biological-Factor.

2. Physical-Structure-Factor: Physique of a person affects his personality. Facial attractiveness,

gender, temperament, muscle composition and reflexes, energy level and biological patterns are the
characteristics that are generally considered to be either completely or substantially influenced by
what your parents were, that is by their biological, physiological & inherent psychological make-up.

3. Physical-Structure-Factor also includes these topics: Psychological-Factor, Intelligence or the

Nervous-System.

4. Environmental-Factor: The environmental factors that exert pressures on our personality

formation are the culture in which we are raised, our early conditioning, the norms among our family,
friends and social groups, and other influences that we experience. The environment to which we
are exposed plays a substantial role in shaping our personality.

5. Environmental-Factor also includes these topics: Maturation; Family; Parental-Influence; Home-

Environment; School-Environment; Culture; Society.1

6. Situation-Factor: The situation, influences the effects of heredity and environment on personality.
An individual’s personality, although generally stable and consistent, does change in different
situations. The varying demand of different situations calls forth different aspects of one’s
personality. One should not, therefore, look upon personality patterns in isolation.

• TIPS FOR AN IDEAL PERSONALITY

Appearance; Intelligence; Smartness; High Integrity; Responsible; Trustworthy; In-depth Knowledge;
Management; Efficiency; Economic Independence; Morality; Character.2

• Class-Room Discussion.

1 https://unique2brilliance.com/personality.../factors-affecting-personality-development/
2https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/personal-development.html