Personality is divided into natural and nurture accordingly to beliefs of its origins. Natural type of personality is result of the evolution process and it is inherited in genes. Behaviour is controlled by them and individual has not got power to act differently.
On the other hand, nurture personality is not inherited and states that individual’s mind is blank sheet at birth. All surrounding factors like environment, culture or education form one’s behaviour.
The idiographic view of personality claims that every individual has his own distinctive psychological structure and that some features are owned by only one person.
The nomothetic view emphasizes comparability amid people, however perceives in them unique combination of features. It says that people differ only in the amount of these features and this is what form their individuality.
According to these theories I can distinguish nurture type of personality influencing my behaviour. I lived in many different places, countries and cultures. This experience helped to decide that my deeds and motivational behaviour, also the way I perceive the world and treat people change in some way every time when different environment surrounds me.
I took part in two personality tests on following websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index.shtml
http://www.initforlife.com/home/tm.asp
First one BBC - gave me following results:
And these are results from second one - MindFrame:
It can be noticed that some values are exactly identical. BBC says that my openness is on high level, it equals sociability in MindFrames which is also on high level. Other factor extroversion on high level is similar to proaction which shows the same high result. However, control and order of MindFrames seems to be a bit higher than conscientiousness of BBC results, but yet quite similar. The res of results is difficult to compare, for these tests are designed differently, however some of the top results equals each other and I think a can agree with given results. They are quite real and reflect some of my features.
As a selection tool this type of tests could be used for specific jobs, where special characteristics are essential. Nevertheless in my opinion they are not good solution for every type of employment. The test always can be wrong and people must not be evaluated by software application or other kind of questionnaires.
Every single person has got different personality, but we all are similar somehow. Some theories claims that people share the same characteristics written in genes, but only the mixture of the these features differs. The others that we born as a empty book and all characteristics creates according to places where we live and our education and experience. Neither we can agree nor disagree, we can only incline to one of the existing theories and believe in it.
REFERENCES
Ryckman, R. (2004). Theories of Personality. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.
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