Principle of Personal development
1. We all share a human nature that has been shaped by evolution and has helped humans adapt to their environment.
2. We differ from each other in dispositional traits, broad and relatively stable dimensions of personality. Humans differ in their thinking, feeling and behavior.
3. We also differ in characteristic adaptations, more situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environments, including motives, goals, plans, schemas, self-conceptions, stage-specific concerns, and coping mechanisms.
4. We differ in narrative identities, unique and integrative “life stories” that we construct about our pasts and futures to give ourselves an identity and our lives meaning.
5. Cultural and situational influences help shape all of these aspects of personality.
3. We also differ in characteristic adaptations, more situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environments, including motives, goals, plans, schemas, self-conceptions, stage-specific concerns, and coping mechanisms.
4. We differ in narrative identities, unique and integrative “life stories” that we construct about our pasts and futures to give ourselves an identity and our lives meaning.
5. Cultural and situational influences help shape all of these aspects of personality.
Main factors that are contributing to the development and shaping of a personality
(a) Heredity – genetic.Some genetically inherited physical and mental capabilities have an impact on how others see you and, subsequently, how you see yourself.
(b) Environment – acquisition of values, beliefs and expectations due to socialization, interaction with others, parents’ behavior with him/her, the contribution made by school and unique experiences encountered along the life.
(b) Environment – acquisition of values, beliefs and expectations due to socialization, interaction with others, parents’ behavior with him/her, the contribution made by school and unique experiences encountered along the life.
