Personality- Its Type, Traits, Dimensions. In this presentation, I have covered different traits, dimensions and aspects of Personality in a detailed manner for better understanding of the reader.

1. PERSONALITY-TYPES AND
DIMENTION,TRAITS OR
ASPECTS
BY--- Dr. Vandana sharma

2. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• Personality type means classification of an individual according
to the pattern of his behaviour tendencies. Some of the famous
classifications of personality are listed below :
1. The Four Temperaments: Hippocrates attempted to classify
personality types according to body humors or dispositions as
follows:

3. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• (a) Sanguine: Those who are thin and tall.
• (b) Melancholic Those who are sad and pessimistic.
• (c) Choleric Those who are strong and easily excited.
• (d) Phlegmatic Those who are slow and sluggish.
• This theory is no longer accepted to psychologists.

4. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• 2. Physical Types: Individuals according to Kretschmer be
classified into four groups in terms of their physical form and
structure
• (a) Aesthetic: Those who are thin and tall.
• (b)Athletic: These who are muscular and responsive to
desirable adjustments.
• (e) Pyknic Those who are short and stout, easy going and
popular with other people. They are said to be jovial, lovely
and outgoing
• (d) Dysplastic: Those who are of abnormal build and possess
characteristics which grow out of their abnormality

5. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• 3. Soma Types This classification was put forward be Sheldon He, on the
basis of physical characteristics includes the following soma types
(A) Endomorphic type Those who have fat and massive development.
b) Mesomorphic: Those individuals who have muscular and athletic bodies.
(c) Ectomorphic: Those individuals who are thin and tall
Sheldon suggests that educational techniques and modes of discipline
should be adjusted to the child's somatic type

6. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• 4. Sociological Types: This theory was put forward by Spranger.This
classification is based on the social behaviour of persons
• (a) Theoretical type: ie mathematicians and philosophers
• (b) Economic type ie businessmen and tradesmen
• (c) Aesthetic type i.e. poets and artists.
• (d) Social type i e. social reformers and social leaders.
• (e) Political type i.e. statesmen and political leader
• (f) Religious type i.e. saints and religious leaders.

7. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
• 5. Extrovert, Introvert and Ambivert type: Jung classified people In to
extroverts, introverts and ambiverts.
• Introverts are shy, sensitive, self-centered, less social, less adventurous,
more given to thinking. better in writing, inclined to worries and lack
flexibility.
• Extrovers are very social, adventurous, co-operative and bold. They are
free from worries and have fluency in speech.
• Ambiverts: No one is either completely an introvert or an extrovert
Everybody is a mixture of the two. Some are mainly extrovert's and
others are mainly introverts. In cases where introversion and
extroversion are nearly balanced they are called ambiverts.

8. TYPES OF PERSONALITY
6. James classifies persons into two types :
(i) Tenderminded- ie those persons who are idealistic and religious minded.
(ii) Toughminded -i.e. those persons who have materialistic outlook and have
no faith in religion.
7. Trottor -classifies personalities into
(i) Stable minded -i.e. those who have fixed opinions and
(ii) Unstable minded- i.e. those who are unchangeable.
8. Binet thinks of personalities into subjective and objective categories.
9. Jordon classified persons into active and reflective type.

9. DIMENSIONS, TRAITS OR ASPECTS
OF PERSONALITY :
• (i) Physical dimensions or traits:
Physical traits include the physical body, size, shape, structure,
color, appearance, weight, voice, glandular and nervous
system.
• (ii) Intellectual dimensions or aspects:
Intellectual traits of the personality are memory, imagination,
observation, attention, judgment, perception, reasoning,
thinking ability to make adjustments to various situations.

10. DIMENSIONS, TRAITS OR ASPECTS
OF PERSONALITY
• (iii) Emotional Dimensions: Under this particular heading we can include the
emotional reactions, temperaments like calm or excitable, cheerful or gloomy,
courageous or timid, submissive or dominant, sentiments, desires, attitudes,
complexes and various types of abnormalities.
• (iv) Social traits: Social traits of personality are social behaviour, sociability, social
acceptance, social effectiveness, social ideas and social adjustment

11. •THE END,
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