The Theories of Personality Development



The Theories of Personality Development

Introduction

Personality is something distinctive and specific to each individual. Personality is the presence of a habitual way of responding to heterogeneous situations. The concept of personality is closely linked with the historical and theoretical person, which has a more philosophical nature, and whose origins date back to the oldest religious beliefs. The ways of relating to people and situations that put a stamp of individuality in each of us. While our attitudes, values, opinions and emotions are what make up our individuality, the way we act in these states of mind determines what others see as our personality. There are certain characteristics predominate in our psychological appearance, which can be described by the traits that seem to govern our behavior most of the time (Salkind, 2006).

Freud's Theory of Human Development

Understanding human behavior and the various facets of the character and personality has led, over time, many theories and key readings, but no priority over all equally explanatory of one of the aspects of this complex reality. Going one step back (see # 2: Motivational System) as we have seen, addentrandoci extensively in the field of instinctive factors, we can say that if by birth man is fully guided by instinct, as the experience increases the more the increase ability to select and adapt their own choices, not only according to their needs, but also by those expressed by others and the environment in which they live. The individual learns, well, self-control and to mediate individual needs with the needs of the social interactions that expressed in his behavior (Mroczek & Little, 2006).

According to him, the personality develops in a continuous manner, but the most important period of its formation is the period between 1 and 5 years of age. According to Freud - every characteristic - the mechanism of developmental changes is the evolution of sex drive, and the essence of change areas in which it manifests itself, and of ways to control or satisfaction. The main role in the transformation of the relationship plays called. elementary behavior, which is instinctive, the outside world, which is subjected to pressure these behaviors, and their owner - a specific, categorical requirements.

The Theory of Interpersonal Relations

The most powerful cultural psychoanalytic theory, it should be called theory of interpersonal relations, H. Sullivan. In his view, human beings are the product of social relations, the forces ...