Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s

Narsee MonjeeCollege of Commerce and

Economics (Autonomous)

Department of Commerce2020-21
Name of the Course: FYBCOM Semester I

Title of the Project/Assignment:

Role of Environment on Personality Development

Submitted by:
Full Name of the Learner: Hetvi Nirav Shah
SAP No: 45208200611
Contact Number: 9137977570
Roll No:

F057
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SR NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

1. What Is Personality Development? 3

2. Types Of Personality 4

3. Environment’s Impact On Personality Development 5

4. 7
On Both Children And Adults?

5. Types Of Environment Influencing Personality Development 9

6. Conclusion 10

7. Pligiarism Report 11

WHAT IS PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT?

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Personality development is about building your capacities,
nurturing your talent, enhancing new skill sets, working on
your weaknesses, and transforming them into strengths.

You, as an individual, have exceptional ranges of abilities.

Your latent capacity is multi-faceted, and putting resources
into character improvement empowers you to tackle your
qualities. Zeroing in on singular character advancement adds
to your capacities and helps your fantasies and desires transform into a reality.

To be a more alluring individual, you need to build up your internal identity just as your external self. The
significance of character improvement is undisputed in close to home and expert life.

Each person in this world has an alternate character. It is the thing that makes every last one of us
exceptional and remarkable. What's more, incredibly, the character of a human is discernable from as ahead
of schedule as earliest stages. Two human kids can have similar personality traits, yet never the equivalent!

Significance of Personality
Let’s look at the reasons why it is important to develop one’s personality:
1. Personality development enables you to discover your qualities
2. It enables you to settle on the correct choices and to pick carefully
3. It fabricates that one winning quality in you-certainty. Sure individuals are more prepared to prevail
over the long haul
4. It helps you in imparting plainly, convincingly, and decisively
5. When you realize how to create character, your friends and associates will view you as a pioneer

TYPES OF PERSONALITY
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The term, Personality Development, refers to the change as well as growth in personality throughout the
lifetime of an individual. It is the development of certain traits, behaviour, and attitude that differentiates
one person from another. As per studies, the process depends on three main influential factors, including:

Temperament

Character

Environment

Temperament, also referred to as nature, are the genetically determined personality traits. It affects a child’s
approach towards the world and his learning abilities. The genetic materials play their role by influencing
the nervous system development, which in turn affects the behaviour.

Character is a collection of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural patterns adopted from experiences. These
experiences determine our perspective, feelings, and actions. Over time, the character continues to evolve
with experiences. However, it is also dependent on one’s morals.

The third and most influential factor is the environment. Psychologists suggest that the environment
surrounding an individual plays an almost 50-70% role in personality development.

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 ENVIRONMENT’S IMPACT ON PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Most people would agree that personality is unique to an individual person. With so many people in the
world, it would not be far fetched to believe that there are different types of personalities. Putting these
personalities into specific category types would help people determine what personality type they are.

There is an argument of what shapes the personality of a person. Is it the genes that shapes a persons
personality? Are personalities formed by hereditary traits? Is the environment we live in the primary factor
that gives us are personality? 

Some say that hereditary factors passed by our parents and ancestors to us are the main factor to ones
personality. The individual talent and some other traits are just few examples of these traits. Some
hereditary factors that contribute to personality development do so as a result of interactions with the
particular social environment in which people live. For instance, your genetically inherited physical and
mental capabilities have an impact on how others see you, and how you see yourself. If you have poor motor
skills that prevent you from throwing a ball straight and if you regularly get bad grades in school, you will
very likely be labeled by your teachers, friends, and relatives as someone who is inadequate or a failure to
some degree.

This can become a self-fulfilling prophesy as you increasingly perceive yourself in this way and become
more pessimistic about your capabilities and your future. Likewise, your health and physical appearance are
likely to be very important in your personality development. You may be frail or robust. You may have a
learning disability. You may be slender in a culture that considers obesity attractive or vice versa. These
largely hereditary factors are likely to cause you to feel that you are nice-looking, ugly, or just adequate.
Likewise, skin color, gender, and sexual orientation are likely to have a major impact on how you perceive
yourself. Whether you are accepted by others as being normal or abnormal can lead you to think and act in a
socially acceptable or even deviant way.

The environment is everything that affects the individual except his genes. There are many potential
environmental influences that help to shape personality. These include the place we live and the people
around us. Our experiences in our day to day life, as well as the people whom we associated with such as
our family, friends, people in the school, in the church and the community as a whole, all influences our
personality.
Boys and girls are socialized differently to some extent in all societies. They receive different messages
from their parents and other adults as to what is appropriate for them to do in life. They are encouraged to
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prepare for their future in jobs fitting their gender. Boys are more often allowed freedom to experiment and
to participate in physically risky activities. Girls are encouraged to learn how to do domestic tasks and to
participate in child rearing by baby-sitting. If children do not follow these traditional paths, they are often
labeled as marginal or even deviant. Girls may be called “tomboys” and boys may be ridiculed for not being
sufficiently masculine.

There are always unique situations and interpersonal events that help to shape our personalities. If you are
an only child, you don’t have to learn how to compromise as much as children who have several siblings.
Chance meetings and actions may have a major impact on the rest of our lives and affect our personalities.
For instance, being accepted for admission to a prestigious university or being in the right place at the right
time to meet the person who will become your spouse or life partner can significantly alter the course of the
rest of your life. Similarly, being drafted into the military during wartime, learning that you were adopted, or
personally witnessing a tragic event, can change your personality. Home has a great bearing on the
personality development of an individual. Parents behavior and attitude, their expectations from the child,
their education and attention to the child, influences the child’s personality. Also school plays a major
environmental role in personality. In school a child is in contact with peers and teachers whose personality
can be influential.

There are many ways to see how a persons individual personality can be shaped. Whether you believe a
person is limited to their genetic make up or you believe that the environment can continue to mold a
personality after conception. There is a strong case that the environment does influence personality, what we
learn, see, live and experience that shape are personality.

Hence, we can say that, yes, the environment has a noteworthy impact on personality development. Now,
the influential environment does not only refer to your work, school, college, university, or home
environment. It also refers to all the surroundings wherein you have experienced things. It may even mean
your culture, society, and childhood experiences. Whether it’s operant learning or observational learning, it
applies to all.

Along the same lines, this research confirms that environmental influences have the largest impact in
shaping personality because they are mainly accidental. And hence, the best source of generating natural
response and leading to the development of learned behaviour.

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 ON BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS?

Scholars have argued about the factors of personality development for a long time. However, most of them
agree that heredity and environment have the biggest effect on shaping of a human’s personality. On the
other hand, the studying of environmental impact seems to be appealing for researching because people can
influence this aspect. In particular, humans can shift effects of such environmental factors as family, peers,
formal education, occupation, religion and community.

Unfortunately, a common misconception persists amongst societies worldwide. People believe adults have a
developed personality, which remains unaffected by the environment. However, personality is an ever-
changing part of a human. The development rate may lower with age, but it is still present.

According to one study conducted by psychiatrist Erik Erikson in 1956, personality development consists of
8-phrases that occur from infancy to adulthood.
In the early years of infancy, a human learns fundamental trust or mistrust. Better care and love develop
reliance, security, and optimism in a child. During toddlerhood, a child will learn about Will. He learns
regarding self-confidence, control, and shame.

In the third preschool stage, an individual experiences the learning initiative and guilt phase. While a school
child goes through the learning industry and inferiority phase.

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Later, like adolescence, the child is in the learning identity phase. A child clarifies sexual identity and
establishes goals.The other three stages occur throughout adulthood, where an individual alters
himself/herself according to per environment.

Research shows that shared experiences that are common to all children in a family affect their personalities
far less than unshared environmental influences that each child experiences separately. The common
environments and experiences that children in a family share don’t make them as similar to each other as we
might expect.

Understanding social and personality development requires looking at children from three perspectives that
interact to shape development. The first is the social context in which each child lives, especially the
relationships that provide security, guidance, and knowledge. The second is biological maturation that
supports developing social and emotional competencies and underlies temperamental individuality.
The third is children’s developing representations of themselves and the social world. Social and personality
development is best understood as the continuous interaction between these social, biological, and
representational aspects of psychological development.

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 TYPES OF ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCING PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Up till now, we learned about the environment’s importance in personality development. However, did you
know that different types of environment affect a child’s personality differently? Let’s unravel the details!

Family: Ever since birth, a child spends the majority of time with family. Hence, this type of environment is
most influential. Teachings provided by parents, relationships between different members, and parental
behaviour towards the child influence the development of personality traits. For example, excessive
restriction and limitation upon a child can establish rebellious features.

School: A human’s school life plays an important role in personality development. The academic
challenges, socialization, and co-curricular activities provide an opportunity for self-grooming. It is the
phase when the hidden traits of the personality are dominant as the child attempts to adjust on his own.
However, this process can get negatively influenced by a troubled environment. Peer pressure, socializing
issues, bullying, and other factors can develop anger as well as frustration in one.

Culture: The cultural environment surrounding a child determines the norms for him and develops
personality accordingly. For example, Asian cultures focus more on community and society norms, which is
why cooperation is a more dominant trait amongst Asian people.

It is generally assumed that human beings perceive and understand the world through the senses, and that
that epistemic connection with the world occurs via the transmission of information from the world through
those senses into a mind. The converse perspective on this same assumption is that the environment
influences individuals, both microgenetically and developmentally, via the information that is generated in
that environment and transmitted into the minds of those individuals.

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 CONCLUSION

Undeniably, the environment surrounding an individual has a significant impact on personality

development. While the temperament and character play a part, the environment affects a big chunk of your
personality. And, it continues to influence throughout a human’s lifespan.

Consequently, all adults and parents must understand the importance of environmental influence. You see,
the personality development of a child is a sensitive matter. One wrong action and you can be responsible
for triggering the development of a destructive trait, such as indecisiveness and uncontrollable anger.

In severe cases, a child surrounded by a toxic and manipulative environment may develop personality
disorders. These can be difficult to treat and have a permanent effect.

Hence, if you do want your child to lead a healthy and stable life, it is essential to educate yourself as well
as others about the role of environment on personality development. And, you must learn to deal with
situations patiently and wisely.

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Sentence
Personality development is about building your capacities, nurturing your talent, enhancing new skill sets, working on
your weaknesses, and transforming them into strengths. You, as an individual, have exceptional ranges of abilities. Your
latent capacity is multi-faceted, and putting resources into character improvement empowers you to tackle your
qualities. Zeroing in on singular character advancement adds to your capacities and helps your fantasies and desires
transform into a reality. To be a more alluring individual, you need to build up your internal identity just as your
external self. The significance of character improvement is undisputed in close to home and expert life. Each person in
this world has an alternate character. It is the thing that makes every last one of us exceptional and remarkable. What's
more, incredibly, the character of a human is discernable from as ahead of schedule as earliest stages. Two human kids
can have similar personality traits, yet never the equivalent! Significance of Personality Let’s look at the reasons why it
is important to develop one’s personality: 1. Personality development enables you to discover your qualities 2. It
enables you to settle on the correct choices and to pick carefully 3. It fabricates that one winning quality in you-
certainty. Sure individuals are more prepared to prevail over the long haul 4. It helps you in imparting plainly,
convincingly, and decisively 5. When you realize how to create character, your friends and associates will view you as a
pioneer TYPES OF PERSONALITY The term, Personality Development, refers to the change as well as growth in
personality throughout the lifetime of an individual. It is the development of certain traits, behaviour, and attitude that
differentiates one person from another. As per studies, the process depends on three main influential factors, including:
Temperament, also referred to as nature, are the genetically determined personality traits. It affects a child’s approach
towards the world and his learning abilities. The genetic materials play their role by influencing the nervous system
development, which in turn affects the behaviour. Character is a collection of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural
patterns adopted from experiences. These experiences determine our perspective, feelings, and actions. Over time, the
character continues to evolve with experiences. However, it is also dependent on one’s morals. The third and most
influential factor is the environment. Psychologists suggest that the environment surrounding an individual plays an
almost 50-70% role in personality development. Environment’s Impact on Personality Development Most people would
agree that personality is unique to an individual person. With so many people in the world, it would not be far fetched
to believe that there are different types of personalities. Putting these personalities into specific category types would
help people determine what personality type they are. There is an argument of what shapes the personality of a person.
Is it the genes that shapes a persons personality? Are personalities formed by hereditary traits? Is the environment we
live in the primary factor that gives us are personality? Some say that hereditary factors passed by our parents and
ancestors to us are the main factor to ones personality. The individual talent and some other traits are just few
examples of these traits. Some hereditary factors that contribute to personality development do so as a result of
interactions with the particular social environment in which people live. For instance, your genetically inherited physical
and mental capabilities have an impact on how others see you, and how you see yourself. If you have poor motor skills
that prevent you from throwing a ball straight and if you regularly get bad grades in school, you will very likely be
labeled by your teachers, friends, and relatives as someone who is inadequate or a failure to some degree. This can
become a self-fulfilling prophesy as you increasingly perceive yourself in this way and become more pessimistic about
your capabilities and your future.
Likewise, your health and physical appearance are likely to be very important in your personality development. You may
be frail or robust. You may have a learning disability. You may be slender in a culture that considers obesity attractive
or vice versa. These largely hereditary factors are likely to cause you to feel that you are nice-looking, ugly, or just
adequate. Likewise, skin color, gender, and sexual orientation are likely to have a major impact on how you perceive
yourself. Whether you are accepted by others as being normal or abnormal can lead you to think and act in a socially
acceptable or even deviant way. The environment is everything that affects the individual except his genes. There are
many potential environmental influences that help to shape personality. These include the place we live and the people
around us. Our experiences in our day to day life, as well as the people whom we associated with such as our family,
friends, people in the school, in the church and the community as a whole, all influences our personality. Boys and girls
are socialized differently to some extent in all societies. They receive different messages from their parents and other
adults as to what is appropriate for them to do in life. They are encouraged to prepare for their future in jobs fitting
their gender. Boys are more often allowed freedom to experiment and to participate in physically risky activities. Girls
are encouraged to learn how to do domestic tasks and to participate in child rearing by baby-sitting. If children do not
follow these traditional paths, they are often labeled as marginal or even deviant. Girls may be called “tomboys” and
boys may be ridiculed for not being sufficiently masculine. There are always unique situations and interpersonal events

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that help to shape our personalities. If you are an only child, you don’t have to learn how to compromise as much as
children who

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have several siblings. Chance meetings and actions may have a major impact on the rest of our lives and affect our
personalities. For instance, being accepted for admission to a prestigious university or being in the right place at the
right time to meet the person who will become your spouse or life partner can significantly alter the course of the rest
of your life. Similarly, being drafted into the military during wartime, learning that you were adopted, or personally
witnessing a tragic event, can change your personality. Home has a great bearing on the personality development of an
individual. Parents behavior and attitude, their expectations from the child, their education and attention to the child,
influences the child’s personality. Also school plays a major environmental role in personality. In school a child is in
contact with peers and teachers whose personality can be influential. There are many ways to see how a persons
individual personality can be shaped. Whether you believe a person is limited to their genetic make up or you believe
that the environment can continue to mold a personality after conception. There is a strong case that the environment
does influence personality, what we learn, see, live and experience that shape are personality. Hence, we can say that,
yes, the environment has a noteworthy impact on personality development. Now, the influential environment does not
only refer to your work, school, college, university, or home environment. It also refers to all the surroundings wherein
you have experienced things. It may even mean your culture, society, and childhood experiences. Whether it’s operant
learning or observational learning, it applies to all. Along the same lines, this research confirms that environmental
influences have the largest impact in shaping personality because they are mainly accidental. And hence, the best
source of generating natural response and leading to the development of learned behaviour. Does it Apply on Both
Children And Adults? Scholars have argued about the factors of personality development for a long time. However, most
of them agree that heredity and environment have the biggest effect on shaping of a human’s personality. On the other
hand, the studying of environmental impact seems to be appealing for researching because people can influence this
aspect. In particular, humans can shift effects of such environmental factors as family, peers, formal education,
occupation, religion and community. Unfortunately, a common misconception persists amongst societies worldwide.
People believe adults have a developed personality, which remains unaffected by the environment. However, personality
is an ever-changing part of a human. The development rate may lower with age, but it is still present. According to one
study conducted by psychiatrist Erik Erikson in 1956, personality development consists of 8-phrases that occur from
infancy to adulthood. In the early years of infancy, a human learns fundamental trust or mistrust. Better care and love
develop reliance, security, and optimism in a child. During toddlerhood, a child will learn about Will. He learns regarding
self-confidence, control, and shame. In the third preschool stage, an individual experiences the learning initiative and
guilt phase. While a school child goes through the learning industry and inferiority phase. Later, like adolescence, the
child is in the learning identity phase. A child clarifies sexual identity and establishes goals.The other three stages occur
throughout adulthood, where an individual alters himself/herself according to per environment. Research shows that
shared experiences that are common to all children in a family affect their personalities far less than unshared
environmental influences that each child experiences separately. The common environments and experiences that
children in a family share don’t make them as similar to each other as we might expect. Understanding social and
personality development requires looking at children from three perspectives that interact to shape development. The
first is the social context in which each child lives, especially the relationships that provide security, guidance, and
knowledge. The second is biological maturation that supports developing social and emotional competencies and
underlies temperamental individuality. The third is children’s developing representations of themselves and the social
world. Social and personality development is best understood as the continuous interaction between these social,
biological, and representational aspects of psychological development. Types of Environment Influencing Personality
Development Up till now, we learned about the environment’s importance in personality development. However, did you
know that different types of environment affect a child’s personality differently? Let’s unravel the details! Family: Ever
since birth, a child spends the majority of time with family. Hence, this type of environment is most influential.
Teachings provided by parents, relationships between different members, and parental behaviour towards the child
influence the development of personality traits. For example, excessive restriction and limitation upon a child can
establish rebellious features. School: A human’s school life plays an important role in personality development. The
academic challenges, socialization, and co-curricular activities provide an opportunity for self-grooming. It is the phase
when the hidden traits of the personality are dominant as the child attempts to adjust on his own. However, this process
can get negatively influenced by a troubled environment. Peer pressure, socializing issues, bullying, and other factors
can develop anger as well as frustration in one. Culture: The cultural environment surrounding a child determines the
norms for him and develops personality accordingly. For example, Asian cultures focus more on community and society
norms, which is why cooperation is a more dominant trait amongst Asian people. It is generally assumed that human
beings perceive and understand the world through the senses, and that that epistemic connection with the world occurs
via the transmission of information from the world through those senses into a mind. The converse perspective on this
same assumption is that the environment influences individuals, both microgenetically and developmentally, via the
information that is generated in that environment and transmitted into the minds of those individuals. Conclusion
Undeniably, the environment surrounding an individual has a significant impact on personality development. While the
temperament and character play a part, the environment affects a big chunk of your personality. And, it continues to
influence throughout a human’s lifespan. Consequently, all adults and parents must understand the importance of
environmental influence. You see, the personality development of a child is a sensitive matter. One wrong action and
you can be responsible for triggering the development of a destructive trait, such as indecisiveness and uncontrollable
anger. In severe cases, a child surrounded by a toxic and manipulative environment may develop personality disorders.

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These can be difficult to treat and have a permanent effect. Hence, if you do want your child to lead a healthy and stable life, it is
essential to educate yourself as well as others about the role of environment on personality development. And, you must learn to
deal with situations patiently and wisely.

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