PERSONALITY

Personality

Personality

Defining Personality

Personality is concerned with the much deeper concept of how people are made. Most personality theorists try to delve below the surface. According to this, personality is as much of our basic makeup as being male or female, having brown eyes or blue eyes, being born with blond hair or black hair. Many religious traditions are concerned with reshaping peoples' character, but they need at the same time to accept and to work with peoples' personality. Expecting people to change their basic personality in response to religious conversation may be as mistaken as to expect them to change the color of their eyes or to change their sex (Burger, 2008).

Personality traits are patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are relatively enduring across the life span. The history of personality psychology has witnessed the birth of numerous traits and trait models of personality. In the 1980s and 1990s, the five-factor model (FFM) ascended to popularity and is considered by many personality psychologists to offer a comprehensive trait taxonomy (Burger, 2008).

The traits that constitute the FFM are extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Extraversion, sometimes referred to as surgency, is indicated by assertive, energetic, and gregarious behaviors. Neuroticism is essentially equivalent to emotional instability and can be seen in irritable and moody behaviors. Openness to experience, sometimes referred to as intellect, indicates an individual's inquisitiveness, thoughtfulness, and propensity for intellectually challenging tasks; whereas agreeableness is indicated in empathic, sympathetic, and kind behaviors. Finally, conscientiousness refers to an individual's sense of responsibility and duty as well as foresight (Burger, 2008).

The innocence of Aries people is enough to cover their, sometimes, aggressive behavior. This naiveté brings fearlessness, while at the same time making them highly vulnerable. They trust people easily, get hurt in the process, forgive and forget, and then, trust ...