Determinants of personality development
- 1. Determinants of Personality Development JOHN PAOLO FLORES DELA CRUZ
- 2. They are two determinants of personality formation • Biological Inheritance – is made up of raw materials which eguip the individual to form his personality, such as physical structure, constitutional characteristic, reflexes, urges capacities. The reflexes are rigid, automatic and unlearned; they may set limits of what the person can do. Urges refer to implulses, drivers, or tension within the individual. These arise from the biological needs, like food, Clothing and shelter, which provide the beginning of socialization. Capacity refers to the intelligence or the ability to learn.
- 3. • Environment – Consist of all things surrounding an individual like his family, school,Church, social groups and other groups with which interact from the very beginning. Each groups puts pressure on the individual and therefore behaves in a certain way as a result of being with these groups. This type of behavior changes with each situation and condition. An individual behaves differently when he is with friends than when with his parents teachers and others older than himself (due to pressure of authoritative figure).
- 4. Deviant Behavior • These form of bahavior that differ far form existing norms are termed as deviant bahavior . This Behavior that maybe tolerated , approved or disapproved. For instance the scholars , the Outstanding leader in medicine , science , art, education , the mass media, and the like, the national beauty, or the inventor are culturally-approved deviant. Abortion , pre-martial , relation , divorce , Bigamy are disapproved bahavior. Smoking, Drinking, alchohol, gambling thought these are vices, are socially tolerated in our society . Whatever is being daviant differs in time and place.