Personality

Definition and
Its Components

Leove G. Mutiangpili, MAED, MBA

Laiden L. Marasigan, LPT, MBA
PERSONALITY: DEFINITION AND
ITS COMPONENTS
Your Image is a reproduction or mental picture of you as seen by others. The way
you are treated in this world depends largely on the way you present your self------
the way you look, the way you speak, the way you behave.
Personality as Defined

• It is the embodiment of feelings and

behavior which makes man a unique
person that he is.
• Personality is the reflection of Inner self
Personality as Defined

• It is the way an individual is interrelated through his

ideas, actions and attitudes with the many nonhuman
aspects of his environment and his biological heritage.
• It is the overall pattern or integration of a person’s
structure, modes of behavior, attitudes, aptitudes,
interests, intellectual abilities, and many other
distinguishable personality traits.
• It is the conglomeration of the following
components: physical self, intelligence,
character traits, attitudes, habits, interest,
personal discipline, moral values,
principles and philosophies of life. It also
includes one’s idiosyncrasies.
• Refers to the total person in his overt and
covert behavior
• Personality is defined as the sum total of
the qualities and characteristics of a
person as shown in her manner of
walking, talking, dressing, and her
attitudes, interests, and ways of reacting to
other people.
Aspects of Personality

1. Physical- includes the mode of dressing,

manner of walking, posture, body build,
health, complexion and facial expressions
2. Intellectual- how a person talks about is
what matters in intellectual component of
personality
3.Social- Good manners, correct manners
are included in this aspect of personality.
To do the right thing at the right time, to act
in the proper manner, to get along well
with others
4. Emotional- Includes a person’s likes or
dislikes.
5. Value System- Includes a person’s
attitude, values, beliefs and philosophy in
life. This is also referred to as
CHARACTER
Components of
Personality
• Habits- These are actions that are
repeated at regular intervals until they
become fixed characteristics.
• It could be of a good and bad habits
2. Attitude- Certain ways of viewing things
as ingrained, acquired and developed
through years of exposure to man’s family,
school, community
3. Interests- natural inclination to focus one’s
concern towards a specific area of work.
5. Values- ways of upholding certain
priorities of needs in according with the
hierarchy of needs by Abraham Maslow
5. Principles- guides to a person in making
judgment based on norms of morality
Factors that makes man
different
• Heredity- people are born with a set of genes and
chromosomes inherited from forefathers and parents.
• Environment- Consists of family, school, church, social
groups with whom one interacts from the very beginning.
• Experience- Consist of everything that one does or get in
touch with , everything that he or she is exposed to in his
/ her lifetime
Reasons for Developing
Personality
• Social acceptance
• Self Satisfaction
• Self confidence
• Keep ourselves on the job
Techniques in Improving
Personality
• Realize that improvement is needed
• Have a strong motive or desire to improve
• Take an inventory or make a checklist of
the strong and weak points, of what is to
be improved
• Have a step by step plan for improvement
“Accept people for what they are ,
accept the fact that no one is
perfect, that everyone has
weaknesses, inconsistencies and
irritating habits”