Personality Definition Of Personality

Personality is “an individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feelings.” (Meyer, 2015). The qualities of a person, such as someone can be naturally optimistic or naturally quiet and reserved, are examples of personality. However, what is not an example of personality is when a situational factor is affecting the person at an instance. If a person seems a little sad because they did not do too well on an exam, this does not define their personality because their mood is being affected by a situational factor, causing them to not act as their usual self.
Some people think that the term personality is a misnomer and that it does not accurate, especially for those who have personality disorders. I believe that the term is not a misnomer. People who have multiple personality disorder act as though they …show more content…
However, it is not based off of situational factors, such as a student is very sad because they did not do well on an exam as they perceived beforehand. There are some people that feel as though the term personality is not accurate to its definition, especially to those who have personality disorders. I believe it does fit because even if there are more than two personalities within an individual with their own thoughts and feelings, those personalities create the individual as a whole and if one were to take one of multiple personality from the person, then they are not the same individual as they used to be. In a way, it looks as though individuals with multiple personality disorder’s personalities are just neatly separated. When my personality report were shown from the IPIP-NEO, at first I did not agree with some of the scores because I thought I would score either higher or lower in each of the five factor model. However, after I sat down and read through each model, I felt as though the scores did accurately reflect my