Determinants of personality are innumerable factors that affect the development of personality. "Personalities, like oak trees, take shape slowly." The following are the most important determinants in which lies the origin of personality: 1. Biological Determinants: Heredity provides the individual with a fund of potentialities and certain organismic conditions that determine, to a large degree, the type of his personality. [...]
In the process of development two interrelated factors are at work - learning and maturation. Experiences that provide a basis for learning are necessary for normal development, but exercise or training alone cannot produce the changes in capacity and performance that normally occur in the process of growth. In the training of children it is important to take account of [...]
The following points highlight the five main theories of personality. The theories are: 1. The Factorial Theory (R.B. Cattle) 2. An Individual Approach Theory (Allport) 3. Murray's Theory of Personality 4. The Organismic Theory (Goldstein) 5. The Field Theory (Kurt Lewin). 1. The Factorial Theory (R.B. Cattle): This theory has been developed by R.B. Cattle. He has defined the term [...]