Both nature and nurture influence personality. Nature refers to genetic and biological factors like gender and family traits. Nurture encompasses environmental factors like parenting styles, education, and socioeconomic status that are learned from one's surroundings. While individuals are born with innate characteristics, their complex personality is largely shaped through interactions with family and experiences growing up in different environments and situations.

1. BOTH NATURE AND NURTURE INFLUENCE
INDIVIDUALS PERSONALITY AT WORK
PLACE DISCUSS

2. Personality
• A unique set of characteristics
• Relatively stable over time
• What factors affect how our personality is shaped?

3. An individual’s personality is the
complex of mental characteristics that
makes them unique from other people
It includes all of the patterns of
thought and emotions that cause us to
do and say things in particular ways
Personality also colors our values, beliefs and expectations

4. Nature
• People behave the
way they do because
they are animals who
act in accordance
with their animal
instincts and are
determined by their
biology.

5. Genetics
• Family traits
• physical appearance
• similarities
• Diseases

6. Family traits
• These are elements that makes the family
alike. e.g management abilities

7. Gender
What differences
are there between
girls and boys behaviour?
What makes boys and girls
behave differently?
What stereotypes are there of
Female/male behaviour &
appearance?

8. Gender Differences
• More risk taking
• More aggressive
• More physical
• Rough & tumble play
• Better mathematical
Skills & spatial ability
(map reading!)
• Higher verbal ability
• Higher spelling
conversational ability.
• Less Physical
• ‘Caring’ less
aggressive.

9. Nurture
• People behave the way they do because
they are determined by the things other
people teach them, the things they
observe around them, and because of the
different situations they are put in.

10. Behaviour
Pro-social behaviour
• Cooperation
• Working together
• Helping and caring behaviours
• In children this includes sharing
taking turns, responding to the
needs of others
Anti-social Behaviour
•Difficulty in getting on with others
•Aggressive & disruptive
•In children this includes hitting,
bullying, teasing, verbal abuse.
• hostile
• non-cooperative

11. Environmental Factors
• Income
• Housing
• Education
• Parenting Styles

12. Parental Influence
• Behaviour
• Attachment
• Language

13. Authoritarian
Style
COLD CHILD HAS
LIITLE CHOICE
UNAFFECTIONATE
STRICT RULES FREQUENT
PUNISHMENT

14. Democratic
Style
Emotionally Warm Encourages Self-reliance
Frequent guidance Explains rules
Punishes serious
wrong-doings
Shares
decision making

15. PERMISSIVE
STYLE
Little guidance Emotionally warm
Does not apply
rules or allows
the child to do
what he/she
wants Inconsistent

16. Which plays a greater role
nature or nurture?
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17. Our judgement
.
Undoubtedly, nurture plays a very big role in
individual personality. Nurture in some way or
another speeds up an individual's capacity to study
and learn new things. There is the common saying
that “practice makes perfect.” Therefore, an
individual can improve knowledge by practicing to
adapt to all creations in these circumstances or
environment.