2. • Personality Development means enhancing and grooming one’s outer
and inner self to bring a positive change in your life.
• How can you realistically set goals, go about life and have successful
relationships if you don’t know who you are or what you want? You
really can’t.
• Not knowing yourself will lead to confusion and wasting much time in
hit and miss situations.
• Knowing and understanding yourself leads to better. (Personality and
Personality Development - An Overview, n.d.)
5. •Each individual has his own characteristic way of
behaving, responding to emotions and
perceiving things.
6. What is Personality Development?
It is defined as a process of developing and enhancing one’s
personality.
Personality development helps an individual to gain
confidence and high self-esteem.
Individuals need to have style of their own for other to
follow them. Do not copy others.
7. • The Self is the humanistic term for who we really are as a
person.
• The self is our inner personality, and can be likened to the soul.
• The self is influenced by the experiences a person has in their
life, and out interpretations of those experiences.
• Two primary sources that influence our self-concept are
childhood experiences and evaluations by others. (Carl Rogers |
Simply Psychology, n.d.)
8. The following are the factors which help in sharing
one’s personality:
1. Heredity
2. Environment
3. Situation
9. The following are the factors which help in sharing
one’s personality:
1. Heredity – refers to factors that are determined once an individual is
born.
2. Environment – the environment to which an individual is subjected
to during his growing years plays an important role in determining
his/her personality.
3. Situation – an individual personality also changes with the current
circumstances and situations. (Personality and Personality Development
- An Overview, n.d.)
10. • According to Roger (1959), we want to feel, experience and
behave in ways which are consistent with our self-image and
which reflect what we would like to be like, our ideal self.
• The closer our self-image and ideal self are to each other, the
more consistent or congruent we are and the higher our
sense of self-worth. (Carl Rogers | Simply Psychology, n.d.)
11. Self-concept is how we think about or
evaluate ourselves it includes our physical,
moral, personal, family and social situation
dimensions.
Self-concept is influenced by our sense of
identity.
12. The self-concepts includes three components:
1. Self-worth (self-esteem) comprises what we think about ourselves.
Rogers believed feelings of self-worth developed in early childhood and
were formed from the interaction of a child with the mother and father.
2. Self-image – how we see ourselves, which is important to good
psychological health. Self-image includes the influence of our body image
on inner personality. At a simple level, we might perceive ourselves as a
good or bad person, beautiful or ugly. Self-image affects how a person
thinks, feels and behaves in the world.
3. Idea-self – this is the person who we would like to be. It consist of
our goals and ambitions in life, and is dynamic. The ideal self in childhood
is not the ideal self in middle and late adolescents.
13. How we think about ourselves, our feelings of self-
worth are of fundamental importance both to
psychological health and to the likelihood that we can
achieve goals and ambitions in life and achieve self-
actualization. (Carl Rogers | Simply Psychology, n.d.)
14. If people perceive themselves to be intelligent, competent
and well-adjusted then their self-esteem is said to be high; if
their self-perception is that of being unintelligent,
incompetent and poorly adjusted then their self-esteem is
said to be low.
Once you truly know yourself, you’ll no longer care about
other people’s opinions and judgment.
15. • Many of us recognize the value of improving our feelings of self-worth.
• When our self-esteem is higher, we not only feel better about
ourselves, we are more resilient as well.
• Brain scan studies demonstrate that when our self-esteem is higher, we
are likely to experience common emotional wounds such
as rejection and failure as less painful, and bounce back from them
more quickly.
• When our self-esteem is higher, we are also less vulnerable to anxiety;
we release less cortisol into our bloodstream when under stress, and it
is less likely to linger in our system.
16. Why knowing one-self is important?
• It helps us in our decision making it help us to decide properly in life.
• Appreciating other people knowing yourself helps you know your
shortfalls, example are impatience, bad temper and pride. This will
help you understand other people with such possessions
• Knowing our weaknesses when we identify our weakness, what we
are not very good at. This will help us to relate to other better. Our
weakness can be pride, laziness and dishonesty
• Understand yourself this tells us who we are and makes us able to
accept ourselves.(Summary · Knowing Myself, n.d.)
17. •The Five Factor Model was initially
proposed by Costa & McCrae in the year
1992 and often describes the relation
between and individual personality and
various behaviours.
18. • 1. Openness to experience individuals with openness to
experience are generally active, have a tremendous
inclination towards creativity and aesthetic and listen to
their heart and what they feel.
19. •2. Conscientiousness individual with
conscientiousness trait listen to their conscience
and act accordingly. They never performed any
task without thinking it twice before doing it.
20. • 3. Carl Jung Extraversion and Introversion
• Extraversion refers to the state where individuals show more
concerns towards what is happening outside. Such individuals love
interacting with people with people around and generally talkative.
They do not like spending time alone but love being the centre of
attraction of parties and social gatherings.
• Introversion in the other hand refers to a state when an individual
concerned only with his own life and nothing else. Such individuals do
not bother about others and are seldom interested in what is
happening around. They prefer staying back at home rather than
going out and spending time with friends.
21. • 4. Agreeableness is a personality trait which teaches
individuals to be adjusting in almost a situation. Such
individuals do not crib and face changes with a smile. They
accommodation themselves to all situations and are friendly
and kind hearted.
22. • 5. Neuroticism is a trait where individuals are prone to negative
thoughts such as anxiety, anger, envy and guilt. Such individuals are
often in a state of depression and do not know how to enjoy life.
(Personality Traits - Meaning and Different Types of Traits, n.d.)
23. • Personality refers to an individual’s way of interacting with
people around.
• It has also personality disorders refer to certain abnormalities
in the behaviour of individuals, it can arise due to genetic
factor, environmental problems and cultural issues.
• Individuals with a troubled childhood are more prone to
personality disorders.
