CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Personality
1. The Understanding of Personality
Each of human body is constructed by a unique substance that is caused by the difference. They are distinguished among others from
behavior, way of thinking and acting, solving any problems and so forth. Because of those factors we easily understood that if there are some people
encountered on the same cases and situations they must send various responses which are rarely the same one another.
Personality of an individual is built from his interaction between individual innate capacities produced genetically since he was born and
environmental factors where he lives. Personality has many varieties to be defined sought by psychologists. The definition of personality that is
mostly used is from Allport who explained personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that
determine his unique adjustments to his environment.
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In line with the statement of personality definition of Allport, Eysenck stated that personality is the sum-total of actual or potential
behavior patterns of the organism as determined by heredity and environment, it originates and develops through the functional interaction
of the main sectors into which these behavior patterns are or the cognitive sector character, the affective sector temperament, and somatic sector
constitution.
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From the quote we can know that an individual has behaviors developed from his way of life in surroundings in the meaning
of interaction to others. Despite, he also has had a basic patterned behavior
1
Calvin Springer Hall and Gardner Lindzey, Theories of Personality. 3
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ed. Toronto: John Wiley Sons, Inc., 1978, p. 443.
2
Dr. Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono, Pengantar Umum Psikologi Jakarta: Bulan Bintang, 2000, p. 79.
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since he was born. This pattern cannot be changed by the kind of interaction, but it is only affected.
Whereas in Psikologi Kepribadian, Sujanto defines personality as a collective biological capacity such as encouragement motivation,
inclination, taste, and character combining to behavior and experience someone had.
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The definition logically understood that individual personality is formed from the innate factor existing on himself which then
cumulated with the experimental factor occurred on the past time. On the other words, despite natural disposition brought by birth, there are any
physical dispositions gained by experiences in an individual. From the definitions of different psychologist written above, we can
conclude that personality is total-complex psychophysics trait, behavior, taste, etc of an individual influenced by several factors; innate capacity
and environment which determine an individual action and reaction.
2. Psychology of Personality
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