Development of personality model based on triguna concept of samkhya philosophy

Abstract

The term personality is derived from the Greek word persona which means mask or newlineoutward appearance of a person. Personality is generally understood as how people influence newlineothers through their external appearances. Personality is a set of qualities that make a person newlinedistinct from another. Personality comprises of all the attributes behavioural, newlinetemperamental, emotional and mental that which makes him or her unique individual. newlinePersonality is totality of person s attitudes, interests, behavioural patterns, emotional newlineresponses, social roles, and other individual traits that endure over long periods of time. newlineGorden Allport (1961) defines Personality is the dynamic organisation within an individual newlineof those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment . newlinePersonality is a complex, multi-dimensional construct and there is no simple definition of newlinewhat personality is. Maddi (1980) defines personality as, A stable set of characteristics and newlinetendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the psychological newlinebehaviour and that may not be easily understood as the sole result of the social and biological newlinepressures of the momentquot. Both the definition suggests that personality is a dynamic aspect of newlinehuman behaviour. newlineWith the increasing realization that many of the western psychological concepts and newlinemethods lack relevance to different cultural systems the need for developing indigenous newlinepsychologies was recognized all over the world (Kim and Berry, 1973). In India, attempts have newlinebeen made for almost a century to develop indigenous models and theories from the rich newlinesource of knowledge viz., the Vedas, Upaniand#7779;ads, the Bhagavad-Gand#299;ta and other philosophical newlinetexts. newlineIn recent times more and more researchers have taken active interest in indigenizing and newlinedeveloping indigenous psychology (Kumar, Misra and Mohanty, 2000; Paranjpe, 1999; newlineSrivastava, 2002). The structure, nature and evolution of human personality are elaborated in newlinethese sources with special reference to the concept Triguand#7751;a.