Amity Business School Amity School of Business BBA, SEMESTER II INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND NATION Divya Goel Module 1

Module I: Individual differences & Personality Personality: Definition& Relevance Importance of nature & nurture in Personality Development Importance and Recognition of Individual differences in Personality Accepting and Managing Individual differences Intuition, Judgment, Perception & Sensation (MBTI) BIG5 Factors

Personality Definitions According to Allport “ Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment.”

Determinants of Personality NATURE(Heredity) NURTURE(Environment)

Introduction to MBTI (Myer’s-Briggs Type Indicator) MBTI is created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs. Myers concluded there were four primary ways people differed from one another i.e. 2 Kinds of Mental Processes, 2 Kinds of Mental Orientations.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Type of Social Interaction Extrovert (E) Introvert (I) Preference for Gathering Data Sensing (S) Intuitive (N) Preference for Decision Making Feeling (F) Thinking (T) Style of Decision Making Perceptive (P) Judgmental (J)

16 personality types ESTJ ISFJ ESFJ ISTP ESTP ESFP ISFP ENTJ INTJ ENTP The permutations of these four preference dichotomies result in the 16 personality types that form the basis of Myers' model and the MBTI inventory. ESTJ ISFJ ESFJ ISTP ESTP ESFP ISFP ENTJ INTJ ENTP INTP ENFJ INFJ ENFP INFP ISTJ

Openness to Experience Amity Business School Extraversion The Big Five Personality Model Agreeableness Conscientiousness Emotional Stability Openness to Experience