Essay On Personality

Introduction
Personality takes many shapes and forms and is affected by many factors. My understanding of personality is simply a genetic and environmentally determined set of psychological traits that influence our reactions in the world around us. Genetic because our parents possess a certain set of psychological personality traits that we tend to have in common with them so therefore in my opinion there are heritable personality traits. Personality is environmental because we each have our own separate experiences in the world and these experiences help form our unique personality. Neo-Freudians such as Jung have given us a wide array of ideas of how they believe personality is developed and formatted. Jung in particular has a very interesting

In terms of mean-level change,

people show increased self-confidence, warmth, self-control, and emotional stability with

age. These changes predominate in young adulthood (age 20–40). Moreover, mean level

change in personality traits occurs in middle and old age, showing that personality traits

can change at any age. In terms of individual differences in personality change, people

demonstrate unique patterns of development at all stages of the life course, and these

patterns appear to be the result of specific life experiences that pertain to a person’s stage

Of life. My research question is that do people personality change as they age? I think the

study is very important because there are speculations and beliefs and even some studies

that people are born with their personality or it is inherited. Although I don’t refute that

facts, I still wanted to find out if one’s personality could be changed they age or not.

Method I interviewed my roommates; they were five females who are also UB students. I

interviewed them asking if their personalities have changed as they aged. They said

My research supported my question that people personality changed as they become more mature in life. Personally, I when I was a kid, I was out of control

Another longitudinal-biometric study done by Daniel M. Blonigen, Marie D.
Carlson, Brian M. Hicks, Robert F. Krueger, and William G. Iacono examined stability and changes in personality from ages 17 to 24 in a community sample of male and female twins. Using Tellegen’s Multidi- mensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), facets of
Negative Emotionality (NEM) declined substantially at the mean and individual levels, whereas facets of Constraint (CON) increased over time. Furthermore, individuals in late adolescence who were lowest on NEM and highest on CON remained the most stable over time, whereas those exhibiting the inverse profile (higher NEM, lower CON) changed the most in a direction towards growth and maturity. Analyses of gender differences yielded greater mean-level increases over time for women as compared to men on facets of CON and greater mean-level increases for men than women on facets of
A gentic Positive Emotionality (PEM). Biometric analyses also revealed rank-order stability in personality to be largely genetic, with rank- order change mediated by