3. What is personality
• Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique
characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a
person's behavior."
(Feist and Feist, 2009)
• Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought,
emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms
-- hidden or not -- behind those patterns
• The psychological qualities that influences an individual’s
characteristic behavior patterns, in a stable and distinctive manner
(Huc & Buc, 2013)
• Personality, in individuals and in the field of psychology that studies
it, is always in a state of evolution (Pervin, 1993)
