Question

Explain the concept of personality. Describe the cultural approach to understand personality.

Answer 1

• Personality refers to our characteristic ways of responding to individuals and situations.

OR 

Personality is characterised by the following features: 

• It has both physical and psychological components. 
• Its expression in terms of behaviour is fairly unique. 
• Its main features do not easily change with time. 
• It is dynamic.

It proposes: 

• Group’s ‘economic maintenance system’ 
• The climatic conditions, the nature of terrain, flora and fauna, settlement patterns, social structures, division of labour, and other features such as child-rearing practices 
• People’s skills, abilities, behavioural styles, and values 
• Rituals, ceremonies, religious practices, arts, recreational activities, games and play