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Personality is a very wide concept. This includes both inner and outer abilities and qualities of a man. Personality is not a permanent entity. From time to time, it keeps changing. Actually, personality is the way in which a person adjusts with it's surrounding. On this basis, it can be
said that if the adjustment with surroundings is good, then the personality is good. Every person has a different kind of and different level of adjustment with his surroundings. So, personality of every
person is different. The more is the adjustment, better will be the personality.

Normal concept of personality is the gift of
personal psychology. Mental activities are studied under this subject. Visibile thinking, imagination and imotions - a group of these is personality. This groupism itself is soul or self.

In
other words, the concept of personality is derived from the pattern of responsible characteristic of the individual. The derivation is possible in three ways:

• The first is subjective, popular derivation based on subjective impressions formed by the individual's response pattern.
• The
  second kind of conceptualisation of personality is based on an objective description of the overt responses of the individual. This view is held by behavioural psychologists and is best amenable to empirical research.
• Third way is the organismic view which concieves personality as the inner pattern of a person's
  characretics.

Meaning of Personality: The word personality has been derived from a Latin word "Persona". This refers to the clothes, which actors wear during a play. Thes clothes change the personality of person and does not remain the originl self.
Personality of a person is measured on the basis of his qualities. Hence "Persona" is taken as the parent word of "personality".

According
to Oxford dictionary:


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According to Princeton dictionary:

The complex of all the
attributes - behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental - that
characterise a unique individual.

According
to dictionary.com


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According to Biesanj and Biesanj:

Personality
is the organisation of a person's habits, attibutes and traits which arises from the interplay of biological, social and cultural facts.

According
ro Mae Curdy:

Personality
is an integration of patterns (interests) which gives a particular individual tread in the behaviour of the organisation.

According
to Allport:

Dynamic organisation within the individual of those psycho-physical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.

Among
thse, conclusions of Allport's definition could be:

• Personality
  "resides" within the individual.
• These systems are
  woven into an organisation .
• The organisation of personality is not static but dynamic.
• The organisational pattern determines the kind and degree of adjustment of the individual to his environment, and
• This
  adjustment - pattern is unique is unique to the individual person.