This article explores the cultural influence on personality development, focusing on how diverse cultural factors contribute to personality development. Ecologies shape cultures and influence the development of personalities, with both universal and culture-specific aspects of variation. The cultural environment surrounding a child determines the norms for them and develops personality accordingly. For example, Asian cultures may have unique profiles of satisfying culture-specific ways of being depending on personality traits, different types of skills, and exposure to idiosyncratic cultural experiences.
Culture pervades every aspect of our lives, making it difficult to examine all cultural factors in the study of personality. However, there are a few major cultural influences that shape human behavior, from values and norms to decision-making and social interactions. The cultural context affects personality development through the transmission of values, norms, and stereotypes that determine social roles and human behavior. Cultural values, established in the environment, form a system of individual values and determine life priorities.
The cultural environment is a potent force in shaping personality development, influencing an individual’s values, beliefs, behaviors, and coping strategies. Religion, race, gender, and age are four major factors that will come up repeatedly throughout this book. Culture acts as a determinant of personality, shaping an individual’s self-concept and perception. Specific personality traits can be influenced by cultural factors.
Cultural environments also significantly shape personality development, with cultural norms, values, and practices influencing individuals’ beliefs. Complex societies produce people with more varied personalities, which is surprising considering that personality traits like temper, humour, and talent are genetic. Overall, the cultural environment significantly shapes personality development, highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing the complex interplay between culture and personality.
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How does environment influence our development as a person?
The environment in which a child is raised, including their family, school, and community, plays a pivotal role in their growth and development. They learn essential problem-solving skills, develop habits, socialize, and enhance their overall functioning within this context.
How does your culture affect your personality?
The influence of culture on personality is a significant phenomenon, particularly evident in the context of individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Individualistic cultures often exhibit idiocentrism, which can be defined as a focus on personal preferences and ways of life. In contrast, collectivistic cultures foster a sense of belonging and a tendency to prioritize the collective over the individual.
How does your environment affect your personality development?
Environmental factors, such as upbringing, culture, geographic location, and life experiences, significantly influence our personality. Children raised in harmonious environments may have a more positive outlook, while those raised in turbulent households may develop aggression or other adverse traits. The Minnesota Study of Twins, conducted from 1979 to 1999, found that identical and fraternal twins shared about 50 of the same traits, while fraternal twins shared about 20.
70 of the variance in IQ was linked to genetic variations, while the remaining 30 was due to environmental effects. While genetic effects significantly influence personality, other factors like a healthy lifestyle and intellectual activities also play a significant role in overall well-being and development.
What are five personality traits that are affected by culture?
The Five-Factor Model (FFM), also known as the Big Five, is a widely accepted structural personality model that proposes five broad personality traits: openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. These traits represent individual differences in curiosity, fantasy, appreciation of art and beauty, social attitudes, sociability, activity, excitement seeking, positive emotionality, compliance, empathy, collaboration, altruism, methodicalness, planning, impulse control, and respecting conventional social norms and rules. Neuroticism refers to individual differences in the tendency to experience frequently and intensively negative emotions, such as anxiety, fear, depression, irritability, and low self-esteem.
Traditionally, measures to assess personality traits encompass many items and are time-consuming. Shorter alternatives, such as the Big Five Questionnaire-Children version (BFQ-C), the Big Five Inventory (BFI), the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Mini-International Personality Item Pool Big Five Measure (Mini-IPIP), Mini Modular Markers (3M40), the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), the short form of the Junior Spanish version of the NEO-PI-R (JS NEO-S), and the Big Five Personality Trait Short Questionnaire (BFPTSQ), have been developed to address these limitations.
The BFPTSQ has several advantages, including wider conceptual breadth (content validity) than most available measures, which often do not represent important lower-order or primary traits. Morizot built the BFPTSQ from the initial pool of English BFI items, added 8 new items to tap into important primary traits, deleted two items that could generate confusion, and reworded 36 items to be more easily understood.
This is particularly important for long-term longitudinal studies, where determining differences between adolescents and adults is challenging due to different measures used depending on participants’ ages. Additionally, the instrument is in the public domain, making it freely available for researchers for applied purposes.
How does culture influence personal growth and development?
Culture significantly influences a child’s development from birth, shaping their values, language, belief systems, and understanding of themselves as individuals and society members. These influences can be received through parents, environment, and media. Society’s understanding of diverse cultures can impact a child’s confidence and comfort in interacting with others. Parents’ culture can also influence their children’s development, as cultural values often influence their parenting style, including discipline and setting boundaries.
While parents raise their children based on cultural influences to prepare them for their culture, conflicts between the social environment and home culture can lead to developmental issues. This highlights the importance of understanding and balancing cultural influences in a child’s development.
What is the role of culture in personality development?
The two-systems view, developed by Inkeles, Levinson, and Melford Spiro, suggests that culture and personality interact and balance each other, with culture influencing socialization patterns and personality shaping some variance. This perspective suggests that culture and personality are interdependent and track along an interconnected curve, with each society having unique culture and history due to distinctive socialization practices.
Recently, there has been renewed interest in the connection between culture and personality by some psychological anthropologists, such as Sigmund Freud, a Jewish-Austrian psychiatrist and influential theorist of the 20th century. Freud identified the Oedipus complex, a universal phenomenon involving unconscious feelings and ideas centered on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and express hostility towards the parent of the same sex. His anthropological work, particularly Totem and Taboo, reflects his long-sustained interests in anthropology.
How is the development of personality influenced by family and culture?
The family unit plays a pivotal role in a child’s acquisition of behavioral norms and socialization, as it represents the child’s primary social group. The formative years of a child’s life are distinguished by substantial physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth.
How does the environment affect human behavior?
The environment plays a crucial role in facilitating or discouraging interactions among people, thereby influencing their behavior and motivation to act. Humans have a innate awareness of their surroundings since the earliest times, seeking environments with certain qualities. These qualities include safety and security, physical comfort, and psychological comfort. An inviting space with comfortable chairs and privacy can encourage a family to stay and visit a patient. Additionally, humans seek environments that offer the right amount of stimulus, such as familiar environments with the right temperature.
Why is culture important in personal development?
Culture exerts a profound influence on individual behavior and psychological processes. This is achieved through the establishment of cultural norms and values, which delineate the behaviors and beliefs that are deemed acceptable within a given society. Additionally, the socialization process plays a pivotal role in this regard, as it shapes an individual’s identity and understanding of self and others.
How does the cultural environment influence personality development?
The cultural environment exerts a significant influence on the development of personality traits, including competitiveness, assertiveness, and individualism. These traits are observed to be prevalent in a number of societies, including the United States.
How does culture influence personality disorders?
Cultural factors, such as Western conceptualizations of dysfunction, can influence personality pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has a wide variety of presentations and is extensively researched, with significant functional impairments for individuals. According to a study by Andrada Delia Neacsiu, Ph. D., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, about half of all BPD research has been conducted in Northern America, followed by 25 in Western and Northern Europe.
Epidemiological research into the disorder outside Western cultures is scarce, making it difficult to compare prevalence rates between these regions. However, multiple- and single-country studies suggest BPD can be found globally.
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I’m ethnically Russian but grew up in Belgium around only Belgians. My parents, who migrated here, also integrated from day one and taught me Belgian values, traditions and lifestyle as much as they could so I’d never feel like an outsider. But what happened was that everyone else around me labelled me ‘Russian’ because of my name and my speech impediment (that was assumed came from my “Russian” upbringing but, plot twist, I barely speak nor understand Russian) and my shyness (I didn’t speak nor reacted much to other kids, so they’d assume I didn’t understand that they were saying). In conclusion, I’m okay with societies actively embracing multiculturalism, but when you start pointing out everyone with a foreign name to teach other children about foreigners, it hurts the child in particular in the long run. Not every foreigner grew up with “their” culture and are not meant to think that they should. I’m now 20 and have finally started to be stubborn, so when people ask me about my ‘homecountry’ (even though I’ve explicitly pointed out that I don’t have anything to do with Russia), I speak about Belgium. Because that’s my home country, where I grew up in, where I feel comfortable… Not Russia. The only time I visited there was for my grandmother, not for my “yearly visit to my entire family and live there for 2 months” (multiple “Belgian” people have openly expressed this assumption to me when I told them about my vacation to that ONE TIME in Russia). The culture in Eastern Europe are not the same as I grew up in and know and will teach my future children.
Islam is in some ways conservative yes, however it is far from Xenophobic since all that is required to be a muslim is that you have faith in the religion coincidentally the first person to give the call of prayer at a mosque was an African ex-slave. Moving on to the idea of questioning is not allowed, in Islam there is a quote from the Koran that states “Seek Knowledge From Cradle To Grave” which means essentially that you should always question and seek improvement of yourself. Generally I wouldn’t care to type a comment like this out however I do feel that if you are going to categorise things like religions it is best to do your research. I wish I could advocate for Catholicism, Judaism and Shintoism but I do not know nearly enough to do so. Before anyone thinks I am offended the truth is I like content that factual and not based upon an opinion or preconceived notion.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, art, civilizations, these are mortal and their lives are to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals which we work with, joke with, marry, snub and exploit immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”-C.S. Lewis
Thank you I am learning a lot! This is what school should teach! Individual culture Prioritize self-improvement Independent and self-reliant Weaker in team collaboration Collectivist Needs of the group come first (the group: family or team or nation) Extremely close to each other Brings about US VS. THEM mindset
I’m an Indian and was born into Hinduism, who grew up learning all cultural values of hinduism Let me tell u something some of the points you said between 5:00 and 5:30 contradicts to what is being taught here Indian are not open to changes gender inequality is at extreme in India (not being proud abt it obviously 🙄 ) Children are definitely not allowed to question authority about anything not just teachers But we are more tolerant to Diversity and more politically engaged.
I am perusal this because i don’t have a personality and that’s why I don’t have friends either. Personality makes me feel like we are characters of article game and makes me believe we are created by God who made us to follow a certain algorithm. And everything is controlled by God. We are not who we are. We are those whom society makes us believe we are. I know It’s very complex but It’s freaking true.
I actually think that comments complaining about this article promoting stereotypes or looking down on one side, etc, might be related to the exact cultural orientation the article talks about. I am from an individualistic culture and on the low side for uncertainty avoidance. Now I live in a collectivist country with a high uncertainty avoidance. Originally, I thought of most of that as bad, but a lot of people around me, who grew up in the country think of these same things as something to be proud of.
I grew- up in a culture that cultivated modesty, then I came to live in a Western culture where it is mistaken for lack of self- confidence (which is EXTREMELY annoying. Fuck with me and you will see what I mean). The irony of it is that I am not modest and I don’t lack self- confidence. Have I failed by both standards? 😄
please take it easy while talking, you need more pauses so the people that´s perusal the article can understand and process the information you´re talking about, i felt like i was bombarded of information and had to reboot the article more than once I say this because is a theme that not everyone talks, so it´s normal don´t knowing pretty much about it
I was brought up to be a collectivist. This idea seems to get the individual to “trade in” their individual personal values for the values of the collectivist culture. I have heard it called a “collective ego”. From this article, I suppose that I would call myself an “individualist” who like to help other “individuals” in a group. Hmm. “Individual group member” sounds like an oxymoron! Hey ho, I am still learning; that’s part of the fun, I think.
I have to say I disagree with the placement of one item between the two lists: how emotional someone is. The “avoid uncertainty” might FEEL more emotion, but they certainly don’t SHOW it! In really conservative, strictly-avoidant, go-by-the-book cultures, emotional suppression is expected from a pretty young age. On the other hand, people who are open-minded and diverse can tolerate more of a display of emotion. (Perhaps in the study the people seemed to FEEL less neurotic/emotional, because they are able to SHOW how they really feel and get it off their chest!) Trust me, societies who value rules do NOT embrace people who are emotional/neurotic. Self-control and conformity is the expectation.
subconsciously : Tiềm thức. Conversly: ngược lại. Pattern : gương mẫu kiểu mẫu. Boisterous and competitive : nổi đóa làm ầm tranh cãi… Spectrums : hình ảnh. Versus : chống lại. Collectivist : người hướng cộng đồng. Prioritize : ưu tiên . Instinctual : theo bản năng. Ambiguity : nghĩa đen . Conservative : giữ gìn bảo tồn. Tolerant : khoan dung . Benevolent : nhân đức.
I find your articles really helpful, thank you kindly for providing them. This article is very interesting but alarmed me a little when it came to the religion bit. Maybe this is because there was no mention about the level of orthodoxy when referencing religious differences. I know of many Jewish people in political activism for example and who are very tolerant and not the least bit conservative when it comes to race, gender and religion. Judaism is also a race and not just a religion which makes this less clear cut. I suppose very orthodox communities may be more insular but by enlarge i would say at least in the UK, Jewish people play a large part in political life and activism. Interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks
Could you give us a concrete example of an individualist society vs. a collectivist society in the real world. I’ll limit you to human existence and planet earth. This sounds like the Ayn Rand word of nonsense. Oh and I need an example of which countries which score high on eroticism. I mean you said it was your research.
I think cultural is a man made thing. But i also think there universal laws about the human being that govern all cultral. Its like religion. There’s alot of them out there but they all talk about love. But also have a different perspective on how to live this love. The religion is cultural but love is universal. One perspective of love is different then another but we all learning what’s best for us. Witch why some change religion and even cultural.
I’m in the Islamic world; it’s simpler not to change the rules, I think that’s why I hated USA when I was studying there, and sometimes when anyone can talk the desires will be more common than the right thing to do, like desires aren’t always a good thing, but the more open-minded are people, the more bad things will happen because people will do what they want and not the right thing. That’s why I believe that I love to be in the none open-minded culture than the open-minded culture.
I haven’t checked if the facts presented are absolutely true or not…but that was a really greaaaat, and enlightening article about ourselves and the environment that we were raised it… as a christian orhodox i believe eastern christianity falls waaay more into the first category…through the years i found it very insufficient in many mindsets,and turned to yoga philosophy a little more…which is in line with what you presented about hinduism… Very comprehensive and encompassing,thanks!!
Kind of like masculine and feminine personality traits, or people who see things through lenses logical and emotional, I think everyone and every group has both types of energy. Everyone and Every group has differing combinations of collectivist vs individualist thought. Sure, some of it is that one person or faction maybe over all more individualist, but is it possible that another group that’s less individualist overall is actually more individualist in one area?
I live my whole life in the same small town. It’s like everybody does the same, drink alcohol, play soccer and talk shit about everybody, especially the losers here has the most to say. Very small minded people who always in competition with others. Respect is just a word so it makes it very hard live here. I’m a very interested to learn knew things or just people in general. My husband has the perfect job now, and don’t give a f about their oppinion. I get so bored and annoying so fast in some conversations. Yes because i just hear nonsense or gossip. 😴