Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. This is one definition that is widely accepted by the public, yet there still exist multiple definitions of personality. The term Personality is difficult to define because there is little common agreement on how the term should be used. In everyday speech it usually refers to someone's public image. Different personality theorists present their own definitions of the word based on their theoretical positions.
Psychology
Some ideas in the psychological and scientific study of personality include:- Personality development, the concept that personality is affected by various sources
- Personality disorder
- Personality genetics, a scientific field that examines the relation between personality and genetics
- Personality pathology, characterized by adaptive inflexibility, vicious cycles of maladaptive behavior, and emotional instability under stress
- Personality psychology, the theory and study of individual differences, traits, and types
- Personality quiz or Personality test, a series of questions (usually multiple-choice, rating scale, or True/False) intended to describe aspects of an individual's character, thoughts, and feelings
- Personality systematics, among subsystems of personality as they are embedded in the entire ecological system
- Personality type, refers to patterns of relatively enduring characteristics of behavior that occur with sufficient frequency
