Personality Theory: Humanistic Behavior

INTRODUCTION

" Personality is the moral force governing body within the individual of those psychophysical scheme that determine his characteristics behavior and though " (Allport, 1961, p. 28).

“A combine of attribute that makes a person unique” (Weinberg & Gould, 1999).

One inclusive definition for personality is by Pervin (1996, p.414. pg.3) who cited:

" Personality is the intricate associations of insights, influences, and practices that provide guidance and example to the individual 's life. Like the body, Personality comprises of both structures and forms and reflects both nature (qualities) and nurture(understanding). Personality incorporates the impacts of the past, including recollections of the past, and additionally developments

Indeed, they developed distinctive and essential theories because they deficient in agreement as to the nature of humanity, and because each viewed personality from an mortal reference point point in time .

According to Erikson, the inner self creates as it effectively settle emergencies that are particularly social in nature. These include building up a feeling of trust , building up a feeling of character in the public , and helping the cutting edge plan for futurity .

Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was a humanistic therapist who concurred with the principle suppositions of Abraham Maslow, yet added that for a man to "develop", they require a situation that furnishes them with validity (openness and self-revelation), acknowledgment (being seen with unlimited positive respect), and compassion (being listened to and caught on).

The motive of this essay is to compare and contrast two competing psychological theories of human behavior. The two theories will be Erikson 's psychodynamic (stage 7, middle adulthood) and Rogers humanistic, concentrating on the adulthood years.

The restrictions to the psychodynamic approach are they can be considered as to be falsifiable and impulsive, case studies lack abstraction , treatment actioned utilizing this approach is addressed by the correlation of the extent of patients who have recuperated from atypical disorder. (Billingham et al, 2008). No consideration is given to intellectual advancement(Louw, 1998).

In contrast with the psychodynamic approach the humanistic hypothesis of Carl Rogers (1959) confided in a inclusive approach (affirmative growth from inside), that it can be identified with every living thing, that individuals are not patients but rather client, there is no age or stages that living things experience, counsellors are there to help the client develop, to concentrate on the quick circumstance as opposed to their past (psychoanalysis theory ) and are not there to tackle the clients issues, he called this client centered theory. (Billingham et al 2008).

Rogers kept up that people have a solid inclination to need to develop, create, to achieve their most extreme potential in life, he called this Actualizing Tendency and that it was basic to all living thing (Presitelli,