Personality

“The personal built-up/composition of A person on which base a person act, walk, behave and

interact with other peoples.

There are Three major components of a personality.

GENETICS.

PARENTIAL LEARNING

ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING.

Psychoanalytic Perspective“first comprehensive theory of personality”

(1856-1939)

University of Vienna 1873Voracious Reader

Medical School Graduate

Specialized in NervousDisorders

Some patients’ disordersSome patients’ disordershad no physical cause!had no physical cause!

Freud & Personality Structure“Personality arises from conflict among aggressive,

pleasure-seeking impulses and social restraints”

Satisfactionwithout the guilt?

Ego SuperEgo

Id

Freud & Personality StructureId –persons attitude is just like a child he works

for what he desire.

Ego –in this a person is mature and he compares a thing before doing them.

Super Ego-it is after ego in which a

person runs his life in self driven rules

Ego SuperEgo

Id

Freud & Personality Development

Freud says that personality development is a process in which “Personality forms

during the first few years of life,

rooted in unresolved conflicts

of early childhood”

Freud says that personality development is a process in which “Personality forms

during the first few years of life,

rooted in unresolved conflicts

of early childhood”

THREE STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT.

The Big Five

Emotional Stability

Extraversion

Openness

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

• Calm/Anxious• Secure/Insecure

• Sociable/Retiring• Fun Loving/Sober

• Imaginative/Practical• Independent/Conforming

• Soft-Hearted/Ruthless• Trusting/Suspicious

• Organized/Disorganized• Careful/Careless

Maslow & Self-Actualization

Physiological

Safety

Love Needs

Esteem

Self-Actualizationthe process of fufilling our potential

• Studied healthy, creative people• Abe Lincoln, Tom Jefferson &

Eleanor Roosevelt• Self-Aware & Self-Accepting• Open & Spontaneous• Loving & Caring• Problem-Centered not Self-Centered

Social-Cognitive Perspective

Behavior learned throughconditioning & observation

What we think about our situationaffects our behavior

Interaction ofEnvironment & Intellect

Personal Control

Internal Locus of ControlInternal Locus of ControlYou pretty much control your own destiny

External Locus of ControlExternal Locus of ControlLuck, fate and/or powerful others control your destiny

Methods of StudyMethods of Study• Correlate feelings of control with behaviorCorrelate feelings of control with behavior• Experiment by raising/lowering people’s sense ofExperiment by raising/lowering people’s sense ofcontrol and noting effectscontrol and noting effects

Purpose of Studying personality in OB