personality
Sign in to savePersonality describes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that make up a person’s unique adjustment to life. Personality is relatively stable, but can change over time due to experiences and developmental processes. Although there is no consensus definition of personality, most theories in personality focus on traits, motivation, skills, and identity.
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Personality is the unique combination of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that shape how a person adjusts to life, and while it tends to remain relatively stable, it can shift over time through experiences and development. Researchers study personality by examining traits, motivations, skills, and identity, though they don't all agree on a single definition of what personality actually is.
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- Measuring
- Five-factor inventory
- Developmental biological model
- Environmental factors
- Cross-cultural studies
- Historical development of concept
- Temperament and philosophy
- Mental make-up
- Empiricists and rationalists
- Biology
- Personology
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Personality describes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that make up a person’s unique adjustment to life. Personality is relatively stable, but can change over time due to experiences and developmental processes. Although there is no consensus definition of personality, most theories in personality focus on traits, motivation, skills, and identity.
Research in personality psychology generally attempts to explain the characteristics of a person that underlie differences in behavior. Personality characteristics are related to many life outcomes, such as work and relationship success, mental health, well-being, and longevity. Over time, psychologists have taken many different approaches to study personality, which can be organized across dispositional, biological, intrapsychic (psychodynamic), cognitive-experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment domains. The various approaches used to study personality today reflect the influence of the first theorists in the field, a group that includes Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Gordon Allport, Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers.