- What is Personality and Personality Psychology??
Talking about personality psychology, I have some references which shared about that specifically. I’ll start from personality. Actually what’s the meaning of personality? In the book named General Psychology by Drs. Alex Shobur, M.Si, he said that a personality is like an electric power. As unclear or suspicious, we know what the meaning is, but if we want to explain the whole of that means, we’re alike lost in the jungle. We cannot explain it in anyway.
“Personality” is coming from the Latin word “Persona”. The word indicates to the mask which usually used by the actors of a drama theater at Rome in the past time, each actor does an act/playing his jester that suitable with the mask which they wear. And in the next time, word of persona or personality becomes popular and changed to a terminology which indicates a certain social image that received by individual from groups or society, and that person is hoped could has a specific behavior that match or suitable with the whole of social image or act that he or she gets.
More than six decades, Allport, a Psychologist has explained in his book named “Personality” that personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environments. So that, personality has some elements, those are:
- Personality is a dynamic organization. It’s not static but always change every time.
- That organization is within the individual. So, not overwhelming everythings outside of individual itself.
- That organization is standing up on the psychophysical systems. Allport said that is such as talents and characteristics.
- That organization is determined the way of how we could adapt to the environment.
Allport said that personality is lied behind the specific action within a person.
In the other side, Koentjaraningrat explained that a personality is a set of elements of mind and soul which determines the differences behavior or the action of each human individual.
So, from the meaning of personality, we can conclude that the theory of personality psychology is a theory and or a way to understand human personality that can be observable and measureable. This theory is learning a detail and descriptive behavior images without giving a value, and studying about character of human. Schultz said that there were nine theories of personality psychology, and those are:
- Psychoanalysis theory
- Newfreudians theory
- Interpersonal theory
- Character theory
- Development theory
- Humanistic theory
- Cognitive theory
- Behaviorism theory, and
- Some bordered level theory
- Why does someone need to learn it??
I think the answer of that question is “yes, to learn about personality psychology is something must to do”. Because if we knew about personality, we could know and more understand about ourself, more about people around us. How are we? What type personality do we have? We can decide to choose one or some choices exactly depends on our personality. We can solve the problems which the way we choose to solve is suitable with our personality.
In a book named Maturity is a Choice, Kiki Fardiansyah, the writer said that if we understand about our personality, we have chosen to be an older human or have an older maturation automatically. As we know that human maturation is much related with the change of mentality than the age measurement. That means can be if an adolescence who still has between ten and twenty years old could be mentioned as a person that has an older mental maturation if he could fill the life neediness by himself. But the opposite, someone who becomes an old man from his chronological age, couldn’t be mentioned as a person that has mental age maturation if he was only hanging himself on the other person. But, the character itself is not inherited from our parents, but need to learn it to understand and to care it in our daily life.
The point of learning personality is to understand ourself, becomes it becomes a way for us to be a successful person. Because without knowing where’s the place of our abundance and destitute and without finding our talent, it’s hard to decide our vision of life. If we know the place of our abundance and destitute, we can get the successful life easily.
- How Personality knowledge help you a lot in career??
The key for developing self is understanding self. And the key of understanding self is understanding personality knowledge. With this ability, we know our power or abundance and destitute, so we can think on a positive way. We also practice how to do positive things. We’ll aware that we have a big potency which is hidden within our soul. And the opposite, if we don’t have or don’t want to be more understand ourself, we’ll never know what kind of potency that buried in our soul. It makes us have a negative prospective. We feel that we don’t have anything to be obstinated.
