habitual patterns and qualities of behavior of any individual as expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes; distinctive individual qualities.
an individual's qualities and characteristics; feelings and behaviour.
Although personality is undoubtedly rooted in the substructure of genetic and temperamental stabilities, personality itself is a surface structure form of human being. It is a social construct made up out of a life-time of interaction in and with familial and social events.
The set of habitual attitudes and styles of interacting with people and the world around us which the child acquires as part of its development.
Mental traits, characteristics and styles of behavior which are stable over time.
a person's set of behaviours, attitudes and experiences that define responses to others and to the environment
sum of all a person’s traits; qualities that make a person different from every other person.
the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"
a complex union of traits
a complex unity of behavioral preferences, attitudes and traits, and these letters merely suggest stronger or weaker tendencies in a person's overall makeup
a mask, individuality is your true nature
an individual trait that cannot be mass-produced
The stable patterns of behaviour and consistent internal states that determine how an individual reacts and interacts with others. 40
defined as the relatively enduring combination of traits which makes an individual unique and at the same time produces consistencies in his or her thought and behaviour. Critics of the concept argue that our behaviour is not sufficiently consistent across situations to infer the existence of stable underlying entities such as traits.
Distinguished from individuality, it is the way on which a person is socially perceived as psychic-somatic unity.
In a study of those with outstanding talent and performance, those who had pleasing personalities, all other things being equal, were found to be at the top of their profession ten years later. Those with unpleasant personalities were found to be next most successful. Those with no personality or and insipid personality, even thought at the same original level of talent and performance, were at the bottom.
that which distinguishes or individualizes a person; its qualities are judged not so much in terms of their moral value, as in "character," but as to whether they are "pleasing" or "unpleasing."
Three-fold vehicle of the soul on the physical plane, consisting of a mental, an emotional (astral) and a physical-etheric body.
means (1) the sum of the characteristics which make up physical andmental being, including appearance, manners, habits, tastes and moralcharacter; (2) the characteristics that distinguish one person fromanother (this is equivalent to individuality); (3) the capacity forhaving mental states, i.e., possessing a stream of consciousness(Hyslop). For psychical researchers this last definition is ofprimary importance. The question of survival cannot be decided untilthe continuance of personality as a stream of consciousness isproved. See PERSONALITY.
The embodiment of personal traits and characteristics of an individual that are set at a very early age and are extremely resistant to change.
The Lower Self as a fragment or mask of the Higher Self or Christ-consciousness.
In psychology, personality describes the character of emotion, thought, and behavior patterns unique to a person. There are several theoretical perspectives on personality in psychology, which involve different ideas about the relationship between personality and other psychological constructs, as well as different theories about the way personality develops
All the internal traits and behaviours that make a person unique. p. 126
The characteristics or traits that make a person unique.
( Latin persona, an actor's mask): the characteristic set of qualities by which a person can be recognized as an individual; an identifying pattern of physical and mental actions and reactions, habitual attitudes and behavior.
An internal characteristic that determines how individuals behave in various situations.
The distinctive and characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that define an individual?s personal style of interacting with the physical and social environment.
A person's unique blend of physical, mental, social, and emotional traits.