Development Personality Theories: Comparison And Contrasting (Essay Sample)

PERSONALITY THEORIES Student’s Name: Institution: Date: Personality refers to the traits or a mix of the traits that make a person as unique. Some of these traits can arise from nature or nurture or both. Personality theories aim at explaining how the different personalities arise. Comparison of the theories Freud and Tripartite theories are learned. Freud and Tripartite theories believe that the instinctual drives happen at an early age and determine a person’s personality in the long run. Alongside Freud and Tripartite theories, there is an agreement from the other theories such as Trait, Eysenck, Cattell, and Allport that beyond the biological background, the environment has a role in shaping the personality of an individual (Allen, 2015). Contrasting of the theories The Freud and Tripartite theories feel that personality develops from interacting with the environment while the Eysenck’s, Catell’s and Allport observes that the personality emanates from the genetical differences within individuals (Allen, 2015). Liking of the theories The theories can predict some factors that affect human personality Dislike of the theories The theories only deal with some factors. However, there are so many factors that are not captured that determine personality. Analyzing a celebrity’s personality using one of the theories Tripartite theory- the theory looks at personality from three dimensions. i.e. The identity, the ego, and the superego. For a great Catholic priest, this is how his personality would have progressed. At the identity dimension whatever his heart fo...