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    Personality can be defined as the inner psychological characteristics that determine how a person responds to their environment. It is a combination of qualities that form a person's unique identity. Personality is influenced by both inherited characteristics like eye color that are present at birth, as well as learned characteristics like attitudes that develop from life experiences, education, and observing others. There are five major personality traits that psychologists have identified as extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Factors like heredity, culture, family, life experiences, and social interactions all influence the development of one's personality.

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    Personality can be defined as the inner psychological characteristics that determine how a person responds to their environment. It is a combination of qualities that form a person's unique identity. Personality is influenced by both inherited characteristics like eye color that are present at birth, as well as learned characteristics like attitudes that develop from life experiences, education, and observing others. There are five major personality traits that psychologists have identified as extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Factors like heredity, culture, family, life experiences, and social interactions all influence the development of one's personality.

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    Personality can be defined as the inner psychological characteristics that determine how a person responds to their environment. It is a combination of qualities that form a person's unique identity. Personality is influenced by both inherited characteristics like eye color that are present at birth, as well as learned characteristics like attitudes that develop from life experiences, education, and observing others. There are five major personality traits that psychologists have identified as extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Factors like heredity, culture, family, life experiences, and social interactions all influence the development of one's personality.

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    Definition of personality

    Personality means how a person affects others and how he

    understands and views himself as well as the pattern of inner and

    outer measurable traits and the person-situation interactions (Fred

    Luthans). According to Stephen P. Robbins, personality is the sum

    total ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others. It

    may be defined as those inner psychological characteristics that both

    determine and reflect how a person responds to his environment.

    Personality can be defined as those inner psychological

    characteristics that both determine and reflect how a person

    responds to the environment.

    The word personality is derived from a Greek word “persona” which

    means “to speak through.” Personality is the combination of

    characteristics or qualities that forms a person’s unique identity. It

    signifies the role which a person plays in public. Every individual has a
    unique, personal and major determinant of his behavior that defines

    his/her personality.

    Personality trait is basically influenced by two major features −

    ● Inherited characteristics

    ● Learned characteristics

    Inherited Characteristics
    The features an individual acquires from their parents or forefathers,

    in other words the gifted features an individual possesses by birth is

    considered as inherited characteristics. It consists of the following

    features −

    ● Color of a person’s eye

    ● Religion/Race of a person

    ● Shape of the nose

    ● Shape of earlobes
    Learned Characteristics
    Nobody learns everything by birth. First, our school is our home, then

    our society, followed by educational institutes. The characteristics an

    individual acquires by observing, practicing, and learning from others

    and the surroundings is known as learned characteristics.

    Learned characteristics includes the following features −

    ● Perception − Result of different senses like feeling, hearing

    etc.

    ● Values − Influences perception of a situation, decision

    making process.

    ● Personality − Patterns of thinking, feeling, understanding

    and behaving.

    ● Attitude − Positive or negative attitude like expressing one’s

    thought.
    Traits of Personality
    Personality traits are the enduring features that define an individual’s

    behavior. A personality trait is a unique feature in an individual.

    Psychologists resolved that there are five major personality traits and

    every individual can be categorized into at least one of them. These

    five personality traits are −

    ● Extrovert

    ● Neurotic

    ● Open

    ● Agreeable

    ● Conscientious
    Determinants of Personality
    Several factors influence the shaping of our personality. Major among

    these are

    1. Heredity,

    2. Culture,

    3. Family Background,

    4. Our Experiences through Life,

    5. And The People we interact with.

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