ABSTRACT

Personality is the complexity of structures, process, and patterns of affect, cognition, and behavior that mediates the relation of the individual with the environment in the service of adaptation. It is the constellation of ways of being, including feelings, thoughts, and actions, from which each individual derives his or her own sense of identity and continuity; as well as the constellation of proclivities that convey to others the sense of unity and uniqueness which distinguish individuals from one another.