Personality Development

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Introduction

All people living in this world have inherited genes and are influenced by some environmental factors and continuously burgeoning. Development is part of life. Development can be defined as the pattern of change that begins at conception and continues throughout the human life. This development process gets influenced by scores of factors. The process of development is mainly influenced by the nature, heritage or the environment and various other factors. The aim and objective of this paper is to talk about the personality development in relation to other factors.

Discussion

One of the interpretations of the relationship between heredity, biological factors, needs and environment is the theory of joint contribution. According to this view, heredity and environment affect the behavioral development and outcome of behavioral properties can be viewed as the result of their joint effect. There is no dispute that the behavior is determined by heredity, and the environment, but the theory of joint contribution argues that these factors rarely appear by themselves. This assumption underlies the attempts to determine the ratio between the contribution of heredity and environment to the development of specific behavioral properties in an individual. The following part of the paper discusses the role of heredity and environment on the development of a human being.

Maslow's hierarchy theory

In the perspective of motivational factors significance importance has been paid to the investigation of Maslow that presents hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy of needs suggest that needs that are necessary for human survival comes at the bottom level on the scale that measures human motivation and the needs that bring self- actualization come at the top level of the scale. Abraham Maslow emphasized on Murray's work to develop one of the significant theories of motivation. According to Maslow, individuals are motivated to satisfy five categories of inborn needs. These five categories are as follows (Beck, 2002):

Physiological

Safety

Love

Esteem

Self-actualization

Maslow held that such needs form a hierarchy of ascending importance, from low to high. He suggested that a ''lower'' need must be relatively satisfied before the'' next higher need be satisfied. For example, an individual's need of safety should be completed and satisfied before the next level of need. The position that a particular need has in the hierarchy is not the only factor that reveals the strength of that need but the extent of the need and fulfillment of previous needs are also important. Relative satisfaction of a need triggers dissatisfaction of the next highest level. This series of escalated satisfaction, lowering importance and escalating importance of the next higher need repeat until the highest level of need in the hierarchy is met or achieved. Maslow suggested that an individual could progress down as well as up the various levels of need. Abraham Maslow borrowed the word ''self actualization'' from Kurt Goldstein, a well-known as ''holistic' psychologist. Goldstein saw self actualization as the master motive from which all other motives are sprang. Abraham Maslow focused on the satisfaction of higher needs (McGregor, 2006).

Levels of motivation

The self actualization needs ...