No two people are exactly alike. People all have their own lives and experiences that affect who they are and how they will live. There are many factors that go into shaping a person’s personality, such as their traits, behavior, genetics, psychodynamic motivation, humanistic paradigm and social cognitive design. My personality can be attributed to trait and behavioral paradigms and through those paradigms, my personality was shaped into the introverted, stressed person that I am today.
One particular paradigm that affected my life is the trait-dispositional paradigm. My particular traits affect how my life goes. Mainly, my key trait is my introversion, preferring to stay locked up in my room all day and browse the internet rather than going …show more content…
Level I deal with traits, level II deals with personal concerns, and level III deals with constructs that relates to adulthood only (McAdams, 1995). Levels I and II already have a big effect on me with level I displaying my quiet and mild demeanor and level II representing my concerns involving with being awkward in social interactions. These individual differences stop me from interacting with others and causes a great deal of stress when meeting new people. I am also beginning to feel the effects of level III as I am beginning to be pressured to be a part of society and act like …show more content…
This paradigm sees human traits as behavior that changes in response to the environment, which in my case, is affected by my family and cultural upbringing. Certain behaviors that my parents and culture valued, like introversion and imperativeness, were rewarded while other behaviors like loudness and delinquency were frowned upon. My behavior was conditioned to reflect my environment which in turn affected my personality.
Behavior and personality are determined by situation-behavior profiles that are generated by the activation of various situations that would determine the behavior one takes in response (Mischel, 1999). My behavior tended to vary across situations. I am very talkative with friends or people that I am familiar with, but am ‘cold and disinterested’ to strangers or people I’m not really familiar with. I dislike crowds or meeting new people so I tend to avoid such situations as they stress me out. These sorts of situations further reinforced my introverted
One particular paradigm that affected my life is the trait-dispositional paradigm. My particular traits affect how my life goes. Mainly, my key trait is my introversion, preferring to stay locked up in my room all day and browse the internet rather than going …show more content…
Level I deal with traits, level II deals with personal concerns, and level III deals with constructs that relates to adulthood only (McAdams, 1995). Levels I and II already have a big effect on me with level I displaying my quiet and mild demeanor and level II representing my concerns involving with being awkward in social interactions. These individual differences stop me from interacting with others and causes a great deal of stress when meeting new people. I am also beginning to feel the effects of level III as I am beginning to be pressured to be a part of society and act like …show more content…
This paradigm sees human traits as behavior that changes in response to the environment, which in my case, is affected by my family and cultural upbringing. Certain behaviors that my parents and culture valued, like introversion and imperativeness, were rewarded while other behaviors like loudness and delinquency were frowned upon. My behavior was conditioned to reflect my environment which in turn affected my personality.
Behavior and personality are determined by situation-behavior profiles that are generated by the activation of various situations that would determine the behavior one takes in response (Mischel, 1999). My behavior tended to vary across situations. I am very talkative with friends or people that I am familiar with, but am ‘cold and disinterested’ to strangers or people I’m not really familiar with. I dislike crowds or meeting new people so I tend to avoid such situations as they stress me out. These sorts of situations further reinforced my introverted