Personality development

Personality Development

An individuals personality is an aggreagate comglomeration of decisions we've made throughout our lives(bradshaw). There are inherent natural, genetic, and environental factors that contribute to the development of our personality; however, in the pursuit of a more defined persona, many individuals enroll in courses offered in colleges to further or enhance the image they intend to project to others. These classes assist in identifying your conscious traits and contrasting them with what you intend to exhibit. According to provess of socialization, "personality also colors our values, beliefs, and expectations...Hereditary factors that contribute to personality development do so as a result of interactions with the particular social environment in which people live." There are several personality types as Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers illustrated in several personnality typology tests. These tests only provide enlightenment based on the preliminary insight scored according to the answers judged by the parameters on Piagets stages of development and personality development in Sigmund Freud's theory being formed through the interaction of id, ego and superego.

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