Psych week 1 dq 1 | COUN 6220 – Psychology of Personality | Walden University

WHAT INFLUENCES PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT?

There are many factors that influence personality development in each individual.  Some of these factors are: culture, genetics, family and peers. Based on the reading and your own experience, consider which factor(s) have the greatest impact on personality development and which factors have the least impact on personality development.

RESOURCES

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WEEKLY RESOURCES

TO PREPARE

• Consider the many factors that could influence personality development.

Post which factor(s) that influence personality have the greatest impact and which factor(s) have a lesser impact on how human personality develops.

Read your colleagues’ postings. 

Respond to at least two colleagues’ posts and comment on the differences between the factors that they chose and those that you wrote about in your main post.

REFERENCES/RESOURCES

• Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.
  • Chapter 1, “Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories” (pp. 1–26)