Personality Approaches

Personality Approaches:

Personality is a socially and culturally constructed approach

→ Personality is shaped by inheritance and environmental factors

→ Personality is culturally constructed

• People in individualist cultures value independence, competition, and personal achievement

• People in collectivist culture value social harmony , respectfulness, and group needs over individual needs

→ Personality is socially constructed

• People show different personality characteristics as the social situation changes

People show different personality characteristics in different social situations

→ People often say and do things online that they wouldn't normally say face to face which is described as the disinhibition effect

Personality

→ Personality is an individual's characteristic way of thinking, feeling and acting

→ Personality is mostly stable through life but characteristics can be improved