Factors Influencing Personality Development

The word ‘personality’ has been derived from a Latin expression ‘persona’ which signify ‘mask’. The personality is a mixture of traits and characteristics of an individual that makes him/her unique, it is shown by the person’s behaviors, feelings and way of thinking. “Personality can be described as the multiple ways, in its entirety, which a person interrelates with and responds to others and is generally explained as the inherent and comparatively persisting forms of feeling, thought and behavior”( Feldman, 2011).As an instance of personality is optimistic. Our personality defines who we are, how we behave and respond to our world. Several theories have been developed in order to understand what determines our personality and how it develops. In general, the accord was that both environmental and heredity factors influence the development of the child’s personality. Personality is perceived at birth but keep progressing through our life. When we are born we genetically inherit specific personality traits from our parents that make us able to respond to our environment and to our society. Thereafter, our environment modifies our innate traits either in a positive way or in a negative way. The everyday lives of the people since the day they were born shapes their personality (Ridley, 2003). The environmental factors like friends, family, culture, religion or sect, and school play an important role through many aspects in the youth’s personality development. For example, we can always see resemblance between the personality of a child and the personality of his parents which can be the result of the parents influence. I am

It helps the child to develop an impactful personality and makes him/her different from the others. The good personality development increases the child’s self-esteem. If you want your child to develop a good personality try to choose for him a good