Personality is a unique pattern that constitutes a person's thoughts, emotions and behaviors. This unique model contains a stable and unified psychological quality, which distinguishes one person from others. This simple definition of personality contains many connotations and embodies various essential characteristics of personality.
1, uniqueness: a person's personality is formed under the interaction of congenital and acquired factors such as heredity, maturity, environment and education. Different genetic environment, living environment and educational environment have formed their own unique psychological characteristics. For example, the personality characteristic of "stubbornness" gives different meanings to different people. As a result of pampering and doting, this stubbornness means "coquetry"; The stubbornness formed in the cold, alienated and difficult environment has the meaning of "resistance". This uniqueness shows the diversity of personality.
2. Stability: As the saying goes, "A leopard cannot change his spots." Once a person's personality characteristics are formed, they are relatively stable and difficult to change. This stability is also manifested in the fact that personality characteristics show consistent characteristics in different time and space. For example, an introverted college student is taciturn not only in front of strangers and teachers, but also in student activities. Even at the class reunion a few years after graduation.
3. Integration: Personality is an organic whole composed of various components, which has internal consistency and is regulated by self-awareness. When all aspects of a person's personality structure are coordinated with each other, it will present healthy personality characteristics; Otherwise, people will have psychological conflicts, all kinds of difficulties in adapting to life, and even "split personality."
4. Complexity: Mr. Lu Xun once said: "The eyebrows are cold to a thousand fingers, and the bow is willing to be a draft cow." This sentence shows the complexity of people, and people's behavior shows the characteristics of diversification and multi-level. Personality expression is by no means a stagnant pool, and the combination of various personality structures is ever-changing, which makes the performance of personality varied. Everyone's personality world is not a simple accumulation of various characteristics, but a movement system organically combined according to certain contents, sequences and rules, just like the universe.
5. Functionality: A philosopher once said, "A person's character is his destiny." Personality is the root of a person's success or failure in life, emotions and sorrows. Personality determines a person's lifestyle, and sometimes even decides a person's fate. People often use personality characteristics to explain someone's words and deeds and the reasons for events. In the face of setbacks and failures, the strong struggle hard and the weak are devastated. In the face of sadness, some people can turn grief into strength, while others show depression. When personality has function, it is healthy and powerful, leading a person's life and success or failure; When personality is dysfunctional, it will show weakness, powerlessness, loss of control and even abnormal condition.
Second, the meaning and standard of personality health
Personality health refers to the unity of personality structure and social environment, self-temperament and inner harmony. Judging whether a person's personality is healthy from a psychological point of view, the criteria are roughly as follows:
1, harmonious interpersonal relationship. 2. Good social adaptability. 3. Correct self-cognition. 4. An optimistic attitude towards life. 5. Good emotional control. 6. Positive life values.
Third, how to cultivate healthy personality?
1, cultivate strong will and tenacious perseverance, and cultivate the spirit of purposeful, conscious, decisive and persistent work. Make it win without arrogance, lose with grace, be serious and responsible, have the courage to overcome difficulties and strive for victory.
2. Cultivate their qualities and habits of being modest, prudent, calm and steady, and thinking twice before doing anything, and exercise their courage of criticism and self-criticism, so that they can constantly eliminate their weaknesses and make their behavior constantly adapt to the pace of the times. 3. Cultivate a wide range of hobbies: this can enrich the life of the rich, enrich people's knowledge, broaden people's horizons, be conducive to the development of intelligence and improve their ability, and make it easy for people to achieve various work achievements and adapt to changes in all aspects of society.
4. Cultivate the spirit of seeking truth from facts, correctly handle various contradictions and problems in life, study and work with a positive attitude, never avoid reality, proceed from reality in everything, analyze problems realistically, be strict with yourself, and strive to accomplish what you can.
5. Cultivate the spirit of loving the motherland, the collective, science and labor: actively participate in various collective activities, maintain close relations with classmates, colleagues and friends, unite as one, live in harmony, learn from each other, help each other, promote each other, be ready to help others, respect the old and love the young, and be considerate of others when things go wrong. Work hard, be brave in pursuing truth, be diligent in thinking and be brave in practice. 6. Only by cultivating lofty ideals and noble sentiments and establishing a revolutionary outlook on life and the world can we always move in the right direction and grasp the voyage of life.