Aspects of Personality Theory of Personality
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conviction has the less explicit outcome that the child has been in the wrong hands, and in fact has every reason to mistrus
t his “rejecting” parents. The third factor is the social and economic class of family. There are three
classes in this factor. First, the lower class family is often to use physically punishment to educate their children. This technique generates children whose
characteristics are aggressive, independent and having early sexual experience. Second, the middle class family gives attention and control to their children. They
feel responsible to their children‟s development. They have an ambition to reach the better status and push their children to achieve the status by education and
professional training. Third, the high class family tends to make use of their down time to do certain activities. They have higher reputation of education and love to
develop their skill in art. Their children are usually having the high self esteem ad tend to manipulate realistic aspects.
2 External Aspect
Another important aspect which influences the development of children‟s personality is the external aspect. This aspect is come up from the outside of the
children. The external aspect is social intervention. Since the social aspect is the aspect which comes up from the outside of the children and their family, so, this
aspect may seem less important yet big impact. This aspect has the relation with self-consciousness of the children. For the first time, children will be attracted to
anything new in their social life that they do not find in their family life; differentiation of persons and objects. McDougall 1960, p. 159 says that as the
differentiation of persons and inert objects, persons continue to be the more
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interesting to the young child, for they continue to be the main sources of his pains, pleasures, and satisfactions. His attention is constantly directed towards
them, and he begins to imitate their behavior. Besides the personal interest of the children, there is another factor that
generates the personality of children which is how the social treat them. Boys and girls are socialized differently to some extent in all societies. They receive
different messages from their parents and other adults as to what is appropriate for them to do in life. They are encouraged to prepare for their future in jobs fitting
their gender. Boys are more often allowed freedom to experiment and to participate in physically risky activities. Girls are encouraged to learn how to do
domestic tasks and to participate in child rearing by baby-sitting. If children do not follow these traditional paths, they are often labeled as marginal or even
deviant. Girls may be called tomboys and boys may be ridiculed for not being sufficiently masculine
O‟Neil, 2006. If children experience and listen to the social opinion regularly, it is not impossible that the treatment from the social will
define the personality of the children. Since then, the child‟s self-consciousness is nourished and molded by the reflection of himself that he finds in the minds of his
fellows McDougall, 1960.