Temperament. Character

5. Character

The word “character” comes from Greek “kharakter” - "engraved mark“
Character refers to the sum of the characteristics possessed by a person in society. It is a system of stable personality qualities acquired and revealed by a person in social activity.

The character structure

- is a system of relatively permanent traits that are manifested in the specific ways that an individual relates and reacts to others, to various kinds of stimuli, and to the environment

Temperament and Character (differences)

1. Temperament is biologically determined (by the type of a person’s nervous system) and inherited where character is a product of the social environment.

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2. Temperamental features may be identified from early childhood, whereas character is shaped in later periods of development.

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3. Individual differences in temperamental traits like anxiety, extraversion-introversion, and stimulus-seeking are also observed in animals, whereas character is the prerogative of humans.

See:

Maksymenko S. D. General psychology. – Vinnytsya, Nova Khvylya, 2005. – P. 272-281

To study the topic “Character Structure”

Character traits reflect attitudes:

• Attitudes towards work (responsibility, discipline, diligence, punctuality, lack of organization);
• Attitudes towards other people (support, objection, attentiveness, politeness);
• Attitude a person towards oneself (renunciation, egoism, self-criticism, perfectionism);
• Attitudes towards objects of reality, things (care, carelessness, wastefulness).