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Theories of Personality and Personality Development
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To help students to have a basic understanding of the importance of personality
Course objectives
To help students to have a basic understanding of the importance of personality
To enable students to critically examine personality development in relation to Christianity and to various religious and cultural traditions and social influences in India
To help students to have a comprehensive understanding of healthy personality in today's context
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Course requirements
2 Seminar paper presentations
Active participation in the sessions
Final examination
Method of teaching
Lectures
Seminar paper presentations
Reading assignments
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Theories of Personality and Personality Development
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Theories of Personality and Personality Development
Objectives:
To help students to have a basic understanding of the importance of personality
To enable students to critically examine personality development in relation to Christianity and to various religious and cultural traditions and social influences in India
To help students to have a comprehensive understanding of healthy personality in today's context
Course requirements:
2 Seminar paper presentations
Active participation in the sessions
Final examination
Method of teaching:
Lectures
Seminar paper presentations
Reading assignments
Evaluation:
Class work: 40 %
Final Exam.: 60%
Content:
Historical development of personality theories and personality development
Philosophical influences behind the following schools psychology
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviourism
Gestalt
Schools of personality theory
Trait theories: Gordon Allport's Trait theory
Raymond B. Cattell's Structure Based Systems Theory
Hans Eyesenk's Biological Typology
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theories:
S. Freud's Psychoanalytic theory
C.G. Jung's Analytic psychology
Social-Psychological theories:
Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology
Karen Horney's Social and Cultural Theory
Henry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Relations Theory
E. H. Erikson's Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology
Heinz Kohut's Self Psychology
Learning and behavioral theories:
B. F. Skinner's Operant Analysis
Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory
Humanistic/phenomenological theories
Abrahams Maslow's Self-Actualization Theory
Carl. R. Roger's Person-centred Theory
Cognitive theories:
George A. Kelly's Personal-Constructs Theory
Jean Piaget's Stage Theory
A. Noam Chomsky's Linguistic Theory
4. Personality development in relation to religions, cultures, and traditions:
a. Hindu view of personality
b. Buddhist view of personality
c. Islamic view of personality
d. Impact of caste and class on personality development
e. Personality development in Adivasi and Tribal communities
f. Religious pluralism, secularism, fundamentalism, and their relation to
personality development
g. Impact of globalization, media, and gender freedom on personality
development
5. Religion and health
a. Healthy religion and healthy personality
b. Spiritual factors in the development of personality
c. Growth, wholeness, salvation, and personality development in Christian
Tradition
Bibliography:
Swaroop Singh, Ram. Education, Personality and Tribal Children. Allahabad: Chungh Publications, 1994.
Pratap Singh, Vijay. Personality and its Development. New Delhi: Saroop and Sons, 2004.
Subramanyan, Lakshmi. Culture, Behaviour and Personality. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2001.
Pervin, Lawrence A. Current Controversies and Issues in Personality. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002..
Heine, Patricke Johns. Personality in Social Theory. New Brunswick:Aldine Transaction, 2000.
Thorpe Lois P. and Allen M . Schnuller. Personality: An Interdisciplinary Approach. New Delhi: Affiliated East West Press Pvt. Ltd, 1958.
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