Part 1: What is Personality

• What is Personality?

  • My definition of personality
  • Characteristics & traits that define a person
  • Consistent patterns of behaviour
• Definition of Personality:

  • Personality is an abstraction used to describe a psychological variable
  • Is a made up thing (a concept), labelled something that existed
  • Can’t touch it but know that it’s real
  • Describes something that we witness
  • Consistency of people’s behaviours
• Psychological Definitions:

  • “Personality reflects psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s enduring & distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking & behaving”
  • Enduring → is consist & predictable (behaviour)
  • Enduring overtime, lasts
  • Distinctive → different personalities
  • All a wee bit different
  • Is predictable overtime (patterns)
  • Helps us understand why people behave the way they do, & what to change to improve
• Psychological Definitions

  • "The more or less stable & enduring organisation of a person's character, temperament, intellect, & physique which determines their unique adjustment to the environment" (Eysenck, 1960)
  • Each of us are unique to an extend
• Personality Types Example:

  • Optimistic vs pessimist
  • How you perceive it, driven by personality