INTRO TO

PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT
By: Visame Arellano
• The set of emotional qualities, ways of
behaving, etc., that makes a person
different from other people
• The totality that distinguishes an
individual’s behavioural and emotional
characteristics
• is made up of the characteristic patterns
of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
make a person unique
What is Personality?
• How would you define personality? The following are just
a few of the definitions that have been put forth by some
different psychologists: 
• "That which permits a prediction of what a person will do
in a given situation." -Raymond B. Cattell, 1950
• "Although no single definition is acceptable to all
personality theorists, we can say that personality is a
pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique
characteristics that give both consistency and individuality
to a person's behavior." -Feist and Feist, 2009

Personality Defined
• Understanding the psychology of personality is much
more than simply an academic exercise. The findings
from personality research can have important
applications in the world of medicine, health,
business, economics, technology, and other areas.
Researchers have found that certain personality
characteristics may be linked to illness and health
behaviors. By building a better understanding of how
personality works, we can look for new ways to
improve both personal and public health.

Why does it matter?

• Sigmund
Freud's
Psychosexual
Development
Theory:
- He believed that the
development process
involved a pleasure-
seeking source that
revolved around
psychosexual energy.

How Personality is Developed

Our Personality
Freud’s Concept of
Personality
• Exists entirely in the
unconscious
• Our hidden true
animalistic wants and
desires
• Avoids pain and
receive Instant
Gratification

Id
• Negotiates between the Id and the Environment
• In our conscious and unconscious minds
• It is what everyone sees as our personality
• The Ego often mediates between superego and id

Ego
• Our CONSCIENCE
• What we think is the difference between right and wrong
• Control ID’s impulses
• Persuading ego to turn to moralistic goals instead of
realistic ones

Superego
• For social acceptance
• For self-satisfaction
• For self-confidence
• To keep ourselves on the
job

Reasons for Developing

Personality
FOUNDATIONS OF
PERSONALITY
• Mental Aspect
• Emotional Aspect
• Social Aspect
• Physical Aspect

Aspects of an Individual’s
Personality
• Heredity and environment determine the
entire physiological system of an
individual.
• Posture
• Body Build and Size
• Complexion and Facial Expression
• Appropriateness and Condition of Clothes
• It has a lot to do with personality
Physical Aspect
• A person’s emotional makeup is
shown in his likes and dislikes
• Emotional behavior is
interrelated with other aspects of
a child’s growth

Emotional Aspect
• How well a person conducts himself with
other people
• How well he observes the rules of etiquette
that govern society.
• Social attitude and behavior are affected by
physiological conditions and changes mental
alertness, and the extent of emotional
maturity

Social Aspect
• Moral- person’s awareness of
the difference between right
and wrong
• Spiritual- consciousness of the
higher values in life. Religion
expresses spiritual value

Moral & Spiritual Aspect

• Intellectual capacity
• Strong and weak mental aspects of the
individual inherited from the parents can be
developed
• The way a person talk, the range of ideas he
expresses, and the things he talks about, as
well as his values and mental alertness give
evidence of his mental capacity.

Mental Aspect
PHYSICAL
ATTRIBUTES OF
PERSONALITY