There are five main types of personality: conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism. There are also six types of personality disorders: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, and histrionic. Humanistic psychology views personality as connected to inner feelings and self-image. The ancient Indian model sees personality developing through five "sheaths" nourished by different things like food, bioenergy, education, ego, and emotions. Developing personality in primary and secondary school focuses on building confidence, intellectual skills, respect, and values through activities, workshops, group discussions, and lessons in various subjects.
3. What is personality
Personality refers to individual differences
in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling
and behaving. While there is no generally
agreed upon definition of personality, most
theories focus on motivation and
psychological interactions with one's
environment.
5. Psychologists Say There Are Only
5 Kinds of People in the World
I. Conscientiousness
II. Extroversion
III. Agreeableness
IV. Openness to Experience
V. Neuroticism
6. Types of Personality Disorder
There are 06 types of personality disorder:
1. Paranoid personality disorder
2. Schizoid personality disorder
3. Schizotypal disorder
4. Antisocial personality disorder
5. Borderline personality disorder
6. Histrionic personality disorder
7. Humanistic(Carl Rogers
theory)
Rogers identified five characteristics of the fully
functioning person:
Open to experience
Existential living
Fulfilled life
Trust feelings
creativity
Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective
that emphasizes the study of the whole person.
Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not
only through the eyes of the observer, but through the
eyes of the person doing the behaving. Humanistic
psychologists believe that an individual's behavior is
connected to his inner feelings and self-image.
8. Indian concept of Personality
Development
The ancient Indian model of human beings. “Personality”
,given in the Upanishads, consists of the ‘five’ sheaths.
They are –
Annamaya: represents that segment of the human
system which is nourished by ‘anna’, i.e. food.
Pranamaya: is that segment which is nourished by
‘prana’, i.e. ‘bio-energy’.
Manomaya: is the segment nourished by ‘education’.
Vijnanamaya: is nourished by ‘ego’.
Anandamaya’: is the segment nourished by ‘emotions.
9. Personality Development in
primary and secondary level
The pre-primary and primary school role:
The roles played by the preschools and primary schools
have great significance over a child’s personality
development. It is therefore required to improvise the
method of imparting knowledge in them. Apart from
games, organising cultural programs, learning
disciplinary tasks, clay modelling, celebrating national
and international festivals at school and upholding
various competitions, there are points which often go
neglected. These include the assessment of children
based on how they are able to interact with their teacher
and also among themselves and helping them
understand the perks of learning things so that they
become active participants.
10. Personality Development in
primary and secondary level
The Secondary education role :
After a child finishes the primary education, most of the
developments will have already taken place. But there are
certain things which can only be taken care of during this
phase. Here, it the role of the schools to make the children
self-confident and motivated towards their prime goals.
Regular workshops and seminars can be used as a platform
to gain and share information. The ethics taught in school
remains lifelong. So things like valuing life, caring for animals,
respecting cultural diversity and religions should be positively
fed into their hearts and minds.
Some basic qualities like being humble, polite, non-gullible
and generous should be taught in special classes of value-
education. A period should be separately allocated for group
discussions on various topics which can improve their
intellectual skills and groupism. Lessons on music, art, craft,
yoga and physical education should be given to one and all.