How is our personality is build up?

Assalamualaikum.

Untuk entry ni, aku nak kongsikan tentang mcm mana personaliti kita dibina. I'm sharing this based on what i have learned in my personality class with Prof. Nik Hisham from INSTED, IIUM.

If you are aware, everything have its own theory. And yes, of course, there are many theories in personality. There are many school of thought, such as, Freud, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, Hans Eysenck and many more. You can just google up if you are curious about them and their theories in personality.

I'm going to share about traits theory.
So, what is traits? In Malay we call it sifat.

Traits refers to consistent pattern in which an individual behaves, feels and think, over time and across situation.
That's the definition of traits.

Basically, traits are fundamental building block of human personality.
What is building block then? It means that. your personality is build up by many elements.

Here is the picture to make you understand

This is what we call building blocks.

To simplify it, we are build our building block based on our environment through our senses. Then, it build our liking, habits, traits and super trait.

Let me give you an example.

Based on our environment we are living, we are build our liking through our senses. 

Such as I like book. (Liking)

Then, because I like book, I love to read (habit)

I rather to read book, than to socialize with people (traits)

It makes me an introvert (super trait)   

Is it clear?

Basically, our super trait are build up based on our liking, habit and trait. This is one of trait theory, explain how our personality is build up. 

And those building block could collapse if your environment change. 

For instance, you have faced traumatize event. And your building block collapse and it build new building block, thus you may build new personality. 

So, environment plays an important role of our personality beside our nature traits. 

I try to write up my understanding about this topic since it will come up in our final exam. ehe.

Hopefully I will share more about psychology stuff that I have been learned in my classes because I'm battling with times right now.

Until next time!