Friday, October 10, 2008




If the environment is stronger determinant of personality, how would you explain the bad behavior among those who living in the same shared environment?

So, what do you think?? Let’s begin our discussion…

Based on the question, the environment is stronger determinant of the personality which is it can lead to bad behavior among those who living in the same shared of environment. It is because the environment plays a more important role than the inherited factors of our personality. The environment factors include our family, culture, group membership and also life experience.

In terms of family, actually both parent and siblings are playing important roles in the personal development of most individual member of extended also can influence personality formation which is it can lead to bad behavior or other.

In terms of family, the influences to the each individual personality happen in three implications ways. First is through their own behavior. The parents present the situations that bring out certain behaviors in children. For example, in the past, the father involved in criminal cases, and possibility their children to be influenced through the history are high. Second, their children are influenced by their parents because they think that their parents as a role model for them. For example, the father smokes in front of their children, so it will influence the children to follow their father’s behavior. Lastly is they selectively reward and punish certain behavior. For example, the children commit a mistake such as fighting at the school, but when their parents know about this, they still do not taking any action such as give any punishment.

The other environment factor of personality determinant is culture. Culture is found in what Lery-Bruhl described as ‘collective representations’ that the belief and the values which are the unquestioned basic assumptions upon which rational arguments in that society are founded.

Culture also can influence our behavior which is towards our personality. It depends on the culture at our environment. People were born in a particular society or exposed to family societal values and to norms of acceptable behavior. For example, we are Malays and we living in Chinese neighborhood. When the majority of the neighborhoods are Chinese, we will be influenced to follow their culture like gamble, drink and many more. However, they will not follow our culture too much because of we are not the majority at that place.

So, we think actually it depends on ourselves to control and try to familiarized in our environment.




6 comments:

Cik Peesha said...

Dear ThE6tHSeNsE,

Please re-read the question all over again.

May be you missing some important points there ...

Find the right key-word!

That's all I can say right now ...

CY said...

Dear guys,
he have to say this, from the 1st time we heard ur presnttion, we already notice that u've not answer according to d requirements of the qs, instead for this articles again u've failed to explain very well but somehow we can see ur effort, its very nice, differents from others, we think, u guys should read d qs again and ask ms fisha, b'coz she's d xpert...
so good luck guys...

winwin_fcgroup said...

hey guys sorry guys, we dont meant to be rude or attacking u guys, what ever it is, we're really2 sorry bout that.

actually, we agree with ms fisha and the nameless said, which is u guys should read the question again. We still confuse about the requirement of the questions.
hope u guys can explain more, thats all.
good luck guys

Cik Peesha said...

Try to analyse this:

Suppose, there is a family with 5 children. The parent are the good persons - pious and righteous - and all of their children grow up well but one.

Thus, how'd you explain this situation? Living in the same shared environment, but turn up to be different from the rest.

Pistachio For Brain (AMD5PD) said...

hey guys!
we think you guys did the job well.
we can't really comment about your answer as we ourselves don't really understand what the question requires.
whatever it is good job guys!
good luck!
(heroes of the earth)

ThE6tHSeNsE {-aMd5Pb-} said...

miss peesha.. thankzzz...

actually,we understand the situation just now..as we know there are many factor that can influence others to change the personnality,

eventhough they are stay in the same environment, but some of them may be influenced from the group membership..

as u say just now, he or she not influence by their family, but they maybe influenced by their friends..

it is because of the people will assume someone's personallity based on what have they saw..

for example, although they come from good family, but if they still be friend with bad group membership such as "mat rempit" people will understand of someone's personnality based on the what person belongs..

that's all..