Personality

Imdadul Haque Talukdar, PhD

 What is Personality

Persona (Greek Word): Mask

Personality The unique, relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a

person’s character that influence behavior in different situations.
Personality The pattern of enduring characteristics that produce consistency and
individuality in a given person.
Kretschmer Personality Types
Psychodynamic
Approach
• psychodynamic approaches to
personality Approaches that assume that
personality is motivated by inner forces
and conflicts about which people have
little awareness and over which they have
no control.
 Trait Theory of Personality
Trait: a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to
a person
Personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in
a given situation.
—Raymond Cattell
Factor analysis: A statistical technique based on correlations between
several measures, which may be explained in terms of underlying factors.
Traits To Cattell, reaction tendencies, derived by the method of factor
analysis, that are relatively permanent parts of the personality.
Traits
 Trait Typology

• Common and Unique Traits

• Ability, Temperament, and Dynamic Traits
• Surface Traits and Source Traits
• Constitutional Traits and Environmental-Mold Traits
Big Five Personlaity Traits
Measurement Tools
Self reported (Big Five Inventory, Myer Brigs Inventory)
In-depth Interview
Observation
Portfolio Analysis
Projection test (Rorschach test, Thematic Apperception Test