Person, personality and character

Question 1

Character and personality

Answer 1

1. Temperament
2. Character
   a. Emotionality
   b. Activity
   c. Resonance
3. Personality

Question 2

Temperament

Answer 2

• the result of the interplay of the passions with the inherited influences of the visceral, muscular and nervous systems.
• Temperament refers to those aspects of an individual’s personality such as introversion, or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned

Question 3

Definitions of temperaments

Answer 3

• Nervous: Anxious, panicky, jumpy, edgy
• Sentimental: touchy and hypersensitive.
• Choleric: becomes easily angry.
• Passionate: one who expresses powerful emotions, very enthusiastic.
• Sanguine: confident and hopeful about what might happen in a difficult situation.
• Phlegmatic: able to be calm in a dangerous or frightening situation.
• Amorphous: no clear stand point.
• Apathetic: not interested in or enthusiastic about anything.

Question 4

Emotionality

Answer 4

A person is considered emotional if external or internal events “bring about a more or less intense shock in their physical and psychological existence.”
Emotionality, when related to character, “is the ability to be moved by events of minimal importance.”
- Emotionality can also be related to a person’s areas of interest.
- We can say that emotionality makes a person hypersensitive to anything within their field of interest.

Question 5

Personality

Answer 5

• PERSONALITY has reference to the PROPERTIES of man, his ACTS, POWERS, and HABITS–all of which are ACCIDENTS
• The person of man does not grow in stature; but the personality of man develops and enlarges itself according to the pattern of his actions, the matured use of his powers, and the schema of his habits.
• Personality, therefore, is something compounded of the acts, powers, and habits of man.

Question 6

Integration of personality

Answer 6

means the gathering together and proper arranging of parts into a whole. The parts, in this case, are the acts, powers, and habits of man. The whole is a well-developed, well-rounded principle of human behavior.

Question 7

Character

Answer 7

Character is the expression of the personality of a human being, and that it reveals itself in his/her conduct. Therefore every person has character.
In mature life, a man’s character is the resultant of two factors:
- the original or inherited elements of his being
- those that he has acquired in the environment.
Each human being has certain dispositions or capacities which affect the way he acts. These are:
- structure of the bodily organism, especially
- the nervous system
- the soul, which has been created