What Is Personality?

What is personality? Some people think that personality just equal character. Actually, personality is defined as the psychology qualities that bring continuity to a person’s behavior in different situations and at different time. Different people have different personality. Therefore, people have different response even in same condition.

I know more about personality traits after I learned the Big Five factors. What are the Big Five factors? It includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Some people have disagreement because of different view. In my class, there are many students not get along well. I think the main reason is different personality traits. Some people are out-going, some people are introvert and some people are neuroticism. Therefore, the subject of a talk and hobbies are different. We live in mass society, we need to accept and respect different view of different people. Before I learn this course, I don’t like people who are neuroticism, I will far away from this people. I know my perspective are wrong, I need to change that. If some people who are neuroticism, we need to help them. They may under too much pressures, we can communicate with them and help them to release stress.

In addition, I also learn more in ego defense mechanisms. Ego defense mechanisms are defined as unconscious mental strategies to defend against open expression of id impulses and opposing superego pressures. People deny perception of reality. Ego defense mechanisms include denial, repression, displacement, rationalization and sublimation etc. Denial is refusing to admit that an unpleasant event has occurred. Some parents denial their children cannot attain their expectation. For example, my sister is a clever girl, she always achieve good performance in school. However, she cannot pass a university exam. Her mother cannot accept this reality, she tell her friends and relatives that her daughter pass