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Define personality and motivation
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PERSONALITY
According to Begge and Hunt, “Personality refers to the whole behavioral pattern of an individual to the totality of its characteristics.”
According to Valentine, “Personality is the sum-total of inherited and acquired abilities.”
According to Guild Ford, “Personality is an individual’s unique pattern of traits.”
According to Sigmund Freud, “Personality is an individual’s unique thought, feeling and behavior that persist over time and different situations.”
According to Young, “Personality is the totality of behavior of an individual with a given tendency system interacting with a sequence of situations.”
According to R.B. Cattel, “Personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation.”
On the basis of these definitions, a brief definition would be that, “Personality is the sum total of inner and outer capabilities of an individual.”
MOTIVATION
According to Sage, “The drive to strive is called motivation.”
According to Crooks and Stein, “Any condition that might energize and direct our actions” is called motivation.
According to Morgan and King, “Motivation refers to a state within a person or animal that drives behavior towards some goal.”
According to P.T. Yong, “Motivation is the process of arousing , action, sustaining the activities in progress, and regulating the patterns of activity.”
According to Johnson, “Motivation is the influence of a general pattern of activities indicating and directing the behavior of the organism.”
