This document discusses the concept of personality development. It defines personality development as the process of developing and enhancing one's personality traits over time. Some key points made are: - Personality development helps individuals gain confidence and improves communication skills. - Both internal factors like heredity and hormones, and external factors like family, school, and media influence personality. - The "Big Five" model describes the main personality traits as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion vs introversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a common tool that assesses preferences in how people perceive information and make decisions.

2. WHAT IS PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT ?
 Personality development is defined as a process of
developing and enhancing one’s personality.
Personality development helps an individual to gain
confidence and high self esteem.
 Personality development also is said to have a
positive impact on one’s communication skills and
the way he sees the world. Individuals tend to
develop a positive attitude as a result of personality
development.

3. CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
 Personality development refers to the
process by which the organized thought
and behaviour patterns that make up a
person's unique personality emerge over
time.

4. FACTORS AFFECTING PERSONALITY
 Internal Factors- The internal factors can be
hereditary, hormonal influence and physiological
functions of the body. Heredity plays an important
role in the development of personality. Hormone
levels in the body also affect physical and
emotional development of an individual. The
nervous system (brain and spinal chord) has control
over the thoughts and emotions of an individual.

5. FACTORS AFFECTING PERSONALITY
 External Factors-
1. Family environment- A child considers his parent as a role model without
analyzing whether they are right or wrong. Parents should keep this in mind and
guide their children in a positive way. Both father and mother have the role to make
their child a good individual. Over discipline and over protection affects our children
adversely.
2. School environment- They make friendship from school and the friends
influence their behaviour. Teachers also influence the student's personality as the
teacher is the person who can change or modify the behavior of his students. The
school should provide time for play and other group activities, thus the students will
be able to act in a group.
3. Position of the child in the family- The older child in a family may be more
responsible than others.
4. Mass media and social media- Social media also influence the person's
behaviour. It is very important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of
such media.

6. IMPORTANCE OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
 Personality development grooms an individual and
helps him make a mark of his/her own
 Personality development goes a long way in
reducing stress and conflicts
 Personality development helps you develop a
positive attitude in life
 Personality development plays an important role in
developing not only your outer but also inner self.
 Personality development helps an individual to
inculcate positive qualities like punctuality, flexible
attitude, willingness to learn, friendly nature,
eagerness to help others and so on

7. PERSONALITY TRAITS
Broadly there are five parameters which describe an
individual’s personality. These five dimensions are also
called as “Big Five” Factors, and the model is referred to as
Five Factor Model also abbreviated as FFM.
1. Openness to experience
2. Conscientiousness
3. Extraversion and Introversion
4. Agreeableness
5. Neuroticism

8. OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE
 Individuals with openness to experience are
generally very active, have a tremendous
inclination towards creativity and aesthetics and
listen to their heart i.e. follow their inner
feelings. Such individuals are generally open to
new learning's, skill sets and experiences.
 People who score high on openness are
quite broadminded and modern in their
outlook as compared to individuals who score
low on the same parameter. Such individuals
are conservative, reluctant to changes and
have a traditional approach in life.

9. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
 As the name suggests, individuals with a Conscientiousness personality
trait listen to their conscience and act accordingly. Such individuals are
extremely cautious and self disciplined. They never perform any task in
haste but think twice before acting.
 People with this personality trait are generally methodical and tend
to become perfectionists in the long run.
 People who score high on conscientiousness are proactive, goal oriented
and self disciplined. They strive hard to accomplish goals and objectives
within the stipulated time frame. Individuals who score less are little laid
back and are not much goal oriented.

10. EXTRAVERSION AND INTROVERSION
Carl Jung popularized both the terms - “Extraversion” and
“Introversion”.
1. Extraversion: Extraversion refers to a state where individuals show more
concern towards what is happening outside.
 Such individuals love interacting with people around and are generally talkative.
They do not like spending time alone but love being the centre of attraction of
parties and social gatherings.
 Such individuals love going out, partying, meeting people and often get bored
when they are all by themselves. They admire the company of others and hate
staying alone.
2. Introversion: Introversion, on the other hand refers to a state when an
individual is 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.
 Such individuals speak less and enjoy their own company. You would never find
them in meetings, clubs, parties or social get-togethers. They generally do not
have many friends and tend to rely on few trusted ones.

11. AGREEABLENESS
 Agreeableness is a personality trait which teaches
individuals to be adjusting in almost all situations.
 Such individuals do not crib and face changes with a
smile. They accommodate themselves to all situations
and are friendly and kind hearted. People who score
high on agreeableness are ready to help others and
flash their trillion dollar smile whenever a problem
arises.
 Individuals who score low on agreeableness on the
other hand find difficulties in adjusting with others and
are little unfriendly.

12. NEUROTICISM
 Neuroticism is a trait where individuals are
prone to negative thoughts such as anxiety,
anger, envy, guilt and so on.
 Such individuals are often in a state of
depression and do not know how to enjoy
life. They always look at the negative sides
of life and find extremely difficult to cope up
with stress.

13. WHAT IS MBTI
MBTI stands for Myers Briggs Type
Indicator. This is a tool which is frequently
used to help individuals understand their
own communication preference and how
they interact with others. Having an
awareness of what MBTI is can help you
adapt your interpersonal approach to
different situations and audiences.

14. EXTRAVERSION (E) – INTROVERSION (I)
 Extraverts (also often spelled extroverts) are "outward-turning"
and tend to be action-oriented, enjoy more frequent social
interaction, and feel energized after spending time with other
people. They just get energy from stimuli within the outside
world.
 Introverts are "inward-turning" and tend to be thought-
oriented, enjoy deep and meaningful social interactions, and
feel recharged after spending time alone. Introverts (I) aren’t
shy and secluded; they just get energy from self-reflection and
staying within their “own” world. You can still be a social
person and be an introvert.
We all exhibit extraversion and introversion to some degree,
but most of us tend to have an overall preference for one or
the other.

15. SENSING (S) – INTUITION (N)
 Sensing-People who prefer sensing tend to
pay a great deal of attention to reality,
particularly to what they can learn from their
own senses. They tend to focus on facts
and details and enjoy getting hands-on
experience.
 Intuition-Those who prefer intuition pay
more attention to things like patterns and
impressions. They enjoy thinking about
possibilities, imagining the future, and
abstract theories.

16. THINKING (T) – FEELING (F)
 Thinking-People who prefer thinking place a
greater emphasis on facts and objective data.
They tend to be consistent, logical, and
impersonal when weighing a decision. They
might be the type to create a pros and cons list
and rely on logical thought to make their
decision
 Feeling- Those who prefer feeling are more
likely to consider people and emotions when
arriving at a conclusion. They frequently go with
their gut feeling and rely on emotions to make
their decision.

17. JUDGING (J) – PERCEIVING (P)
 Judging-Those who lean toward judging prefer
structure and firm decisions. These two tendencies
interact with the other scales. They use their judgement
(J) to predict what they will do next and how the next
few years are going to look for them.
 Perceiving- People who lean toward perceiving are
more open, flexible, and adaptable. If they tend to be
more flexible, they may be relying more on their
perception (P) of the world. When they perceive things
to be a signal for change, they make the change.
The judging-perceiving scale helps describe whether
you behave like an extravert when you are taking in new
information (sensing and intuiting) or when you are
making decisions (thinking and feeling).