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Understanding and Managing People
Tutorial 5
Personality
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What is personality
• Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior."(Feist and Feist, 2009)
• Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms -- hidden or not -- behind those patterns
• The psychological qualities that influences an individual’s characteristic behavior patterns, in a stable and distinctive manner (Huc & Buc, 2013)
• Personality, in individuals and in the field of psychology that studies it, is always in a state of evolution (Pervin, 1993)
Stable or situational
Unique or comparable
Measureable personality
Genetics
Nomothetic versus idiographic
Morning or evening?
References• Jess, Feist and Gregory, Feist (2008)
• David C. Funder (1997)
• Pervin, Lawrence A. (1993)