- personality as ‘a stable set of intrapsychic (internal) characteristics and tendencies that determines the psychological behavior of people the behavior determined by personality is relatively consistent over time’ defined by Salvador Maddi
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- personality was derived from the latin word ‘persona’ which means mask
- people wear masks because behavior that is manifested may be differ on the situations that they are into and people would have to ‘fit in’ to those situations
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- according to Adams (1954) personality is ‘I’
- suggested that we get a good idea of what personality is by listening to what we say when we use ‘I’
- when you say I, you are summing up everything about yourself; likes and dislikes, fears and virtues, strengths and weaknesses