THEORIES OF

PERSONALITY

WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
LATIN WORD, PERSONA, THEATRICAL MASK WORK
BY PERFORMERS IN ORDER TO PROJECT DIFFERENT
ROLES OR DISGUISE THEIR IDENTITIES.
IT IS THE UNIQE WAY OF IN WHICH EACH INDIVIDUAL
THINKS, ACTS AND FEELS THROUGHOUT LIFE.
CHARACTER REFERS TO VALUE JUDGMENTS MADE
ABOUT A PERSONS MORALS OR ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
TEMPERAMENT IS ENDURING CHARACTERISTICS WITH
WHICH EACH PERSON SI BORN

BRIEF HISTORY
4TH CENTURY B.C.E., POSTULATED BY
EMPEDOCLES AND BY HIPPOCRATES.
2ND CENTURY C.E., HIPPPOCRATES
INFLUENCED GALEN. THEY BELIEVED THAT
TEMPERAMENT OR PERSONALITY WAS
RELATED TO THE RELATIVE BALANCE OF THE
FOUR PHYSICAL HUMORS OF THE BODY:
BLOOD, BLACK BILE, YELLOW BILE AND
PHLEGM

FOUR TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES

IN PERSONALITY THEORY

PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
BEHAVIOURIST PERSPECTIVE
HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE
TRAIT PERSPECTIVE

PSYCHODYNAMIC
PERSPECTIVE
SIGMUND FREUD
UNCONSCIOUS MIND IN THE DEVELOPMENT
OF PERSONALITY
BIOLOGICAL CAUSES OF PERSONALITY
DIFFERENCES.

BEHAVIOURIST
PERSPECTIVE
THEORIES OF LEARNING
EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON THE
BEHAVIOUR

HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE
REACTION AGAINST THE PSYCHONALYTIC
AND BEHAVIOURIST PERSPECTIVES
ROLE OF EACH PERSONS CONSCIOUS LIFE
EXPERIENCES AND CHOICES IN PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT.

TRAIT PERSPECTIVE
MORE CONCERNED WITH END RESULTS- THE
CHARACTERISTICS THEMSELVES

SIGMUND FREUD AND THE

PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE:
CULTURAL BACKGROUND
BORN IN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE, 1856
HIS FAMILY THEN MOVED TO VIENNA UNTIL 1938
GERMAN INVASION FORCED FREUDS FAMILY TO
ESACAPE AND MOVE TO ENGLAND
EUROPE THAT TIME WAS UNDER VICTORIAN AGE
MEN WERE OFTEN SATISFIED WITH ANIMAL
DESIRES
WOMEN HAD PROBLEMS WITH SEXUAL
REPRESSIONS

THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

MIND WAS DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS:
PRECONSCIOUS, CONSCIOUS AND
UNCONSCIOUS
THERE IS A PART OF THE MIND THAT REMAINS
HIDDEN, THEY CAN ONLY MAKE AN APPEARNCE
WHENEVER A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL IS
UNCONSCIOUS.

PARTS OF PERSONALITY
The three parts of the personality are the id,
ego, and superego.
The id works on the pleasure principle and
the ego works on the reality principle.
The superego is the moral center of
personality, containing the conscience, and
is the source of moral anxiety.