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PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS orFACTORS OF PERSONALITY

by Hunbbel Meer

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Before discussing the

DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY, it is necessary to define that WHAT IS

'PERSONALITY?' I have already defined it with quiet a detail in my other article. To

read about Personality in detail, click HERE.

After the definition of Personality, we turn ourselves back to the DETERMINANTS

OF PERSONALITY or PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS or FACTORS OF

PERSONALITY (whatever you may call it) and study some other basic concepts of

personality on our way down.

It is generally known that “Personality is the outcome of continuous personal

quality development process. There may be different roles played by a single

personality in different situations. So the personality is best recognized, defined

and analyzed in a given particular situation.

NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO ANALYSE YOUR OWN PERSONALITY (Yes! If you

want to identify your characteristics and traits and want to better

understand yourself.)

Open the below given link, and after reading the following article, attempt a

personality test – link has been given in that article.

http://hubpages.com/hub/3HOW-YOU-CAN-CLASSIFY-YOUR-PERSONALITY-

CHARACTERISTICS-AND-TRAITS

And make sure that before reading all this articles, you must have read the most

basic and fundamental article of this series, that “WHAT IS PERSONALITY?”

ABOUT PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS:

Personality does not evolved by a single factor. It is a mixture of a lot of things.

Some of those factors are psychological, some are physical, some are biological

and some are even hereditary. So, I have compiled some of the basic factors that

hold great importance when we talk about PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS:

1. Brain

Brain is one of the most important

factors of personality determinant. It is

generally believed that the father and

the child adopt almost the same type

of brain stimulation and the later

differences are the result of the

environment in which the child has

been grown up.

Electrical Stimulation of the Brain

(ESB) and Split Brain Psychology

(SBP) and the outcomes of genetic

transmissions and are the tools that are used by the management of any

organization to mould and amend the employee’s behavior to a more positive and

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proper one.

2. Physical Factors

One of the most important factors in

determining personality is the

‘Physical Characteristics’ of an

individual. It is believed that this factor

plays a vital role in determining one’s

behavior in any organization. Physical

features may involve the height of a

person (short or tall), his color (white

or black), his health status (fat or

skinny) and his beauty (handsome or

ugly).

These factors are involved when

interacting with any other person and

thus contribute in the personality

development in many ways.

3. Social Factors

Social factors also play a vital role in

determining one’s personality. The

things that revolve and evolve around

us on a regular basis determine our

personality. The society that we live in,

the cultural environment that we face

daily, the community we get interacted

to, all are included in this factor.

Relationships, co-ordination, co-

operation, interaction, environment in

the family, organizations, workplaces, communities, societies all contribute in way

or another as personality determinants.

4. Cultural and ReligiousFactors:

The culture in which one lives in, that

may involve traditional practices,

norms, customs, procedures, rules

and regulations, precedents and

values, all are important determinants

of personality.

Moreover, the creed, religion and

believes are also very important

factors of personality determinants.

5. Heredity Factor:

Perhaps, the most surprising and astonishing factor (at least in my eyes) is the

“Heredity Factor”. When I first read about that, I was quite stunned and really gave

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a bow to nature. The example which I read was really interesting, and I am writing

the same extract that I read.

NOTE: This extract is being taken by the book “Essentials of

Organizational Behavior – 10th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A.

Judge and Seema Sanghi”

This book says:

Researchers in my many different

countries have studies thousands of

sets of identical twins who were

separated at birth and raised

separately. If heredity played little of

no part in determining personality,

you would expect to find few

similarities between the separated

twins. But the researchers found a

lot in common. For instance, one set

of twins who had been separated for

39 years and raised 45 miles apart,

were found to drive the same model

and color car. They chain-smoked

the same brand of cigarette, owned

dogs with the same name, and

regularly enjoyed vacations within

three blocks of each other in a beach community 1,500 miles away.

Yes I know it was a bit shocking :P

This book also reveals a wonderful

fact about the study of identical twins.

It says:

Interestingly, the twin studies have

suggested the parental environment

does not add much to our

personality development. In other

words, the personalities of identical

twins raised in different households

are more similar to each other than

to the personalities of the siblings

they were actually raised with.

Ironically, the most important

contribution our parents may have

made to our personalities is giving

us their genes!

The above extract really added to my

knowledge, so I found it interesting to

share with you all (with all the courtesy

and respect to the authors). Heredity IS really an important factor in the

determinants of personality. Physical structure, facial attractiveness, gender,

temperament, energy level, aggression, element of love are some of the most

notable features that affect the interaction with others and thus formulate the

personality, BUT these things their selves come from the ‘Heredity Factor’.

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THE NEXT ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES AFTER DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY

IS:

HOW CAN YOU CLASSIFY YOUR PERSONALITY,CHARACTERISTICS AND TRAITS?

I hope you may have found the above personality determinants interesting and

useful. Any corrections, feedbacks, opinions and comments are welcome =)

This Hub w as last updated on September 23, 2011