So, from a psychological point of view, what kind of personality does "personality" refer to? It refers to a person's psychological characteristics and overall behavior gradually formed in the long process of life development.
Different levels of personality development, including mature and sound personality; There are also immature and unsound personalities. For example, some young people have morbid psychology or mental illness, mostly because of imperfect or immature personality.
Talking about someone's "noble personality" and someone's "poor personality" in daily life actually refers to a person's "character" or "moral quality", and the focus is on talking about personality from the perspective of morality and ethics. Psychologically speaking, personality focuses on social sense, which refers to the sum of everyone's psychological characteristics.
It is precisely because the human body is a unity that everyone's psychological activities are a unified complex. Therefore, the understanding and explanation of this complex of psychological activities, as well as the methods and skills to understand it, should not form the concept of "either/or" and analyze and judge it with isolated and single factors. For example, simply using the concepts of "good" and "bad", "good" and "bad" cannot explain personality psychologically. In other words, from a psychological point of view, everyone's personality traits have both a sound and mature side and an imperfect and immature side. However, there are many different grades between "sound" and "imperfect" or "mature" and "immature". At the same time, a person's personality is constantly developing from birth to death.
Psychological science is developing rapidly now. Psychologists agree that because the factors that affect people's psychological activities are complex and multifactorial, the prevailing "single advantage theory", that is, the theory that tries to explain all human social behaviors and social psychology with a simple basic principle, has been gradually eliminated and replaced by multifactor analysis theory.
Because the quantity and quality of psychological activities are ultimately determined by people's personality, everyone should strive to develop into a sound and mature personality. The diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders or mental diseases should also be treated comprehensively, and the most fundamental way is to cultivate a sound personality.
It may be found that in some psychological works, the word "personality" is used instead of "personality", such as "all-round development of personality" and "psychological characteristics of personality" and so on. You may ask, why don't we use the word "personality"? This is because the word "personality" also implies the meaning of individual differences in psychological characteristics, while "personality" can more clearly show the profound meaning of a person's overall psychological characteristics. Therefore, it is more scientific to use the word "personality" to explain the problem.
Finally, I want to point out that the core of personality is outlook on life and belief, whether from the perspective of ethics or psychology. Everyone's diverse needs, wishes, goals, thoughts and actions are dominated by the outlook on life. In other words, it is dominated by a person's unified personality. Although everyone's specific needs and desires will change with the change of time and environment, this change is always "unchangeable" and always consistent with and restricted by his relatively stable outlook on life and beliefs. If this is not the case, for example, desire betrays faith, selfish desire conflicts with conscience, and behavior and cognition are unbalanced or even contradictory; Then it will inevitably lead to conscious thought control and unified coordination of their normal actions, which will lead to split personality, mental disorder and mental illness. On the contrary, our countless heroic martyrs, despite being in adversity, imprisoned and tested by blood and fire, have always maintained the belief that truth will prevail and materialism must be realized. Therefore, in mental health, they are always strong and optimistic.