International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience
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Static/Unchangeable and Dynamic/Changeable Nature of Personality According to the Nine Types Temperament Model: A Proposal

Enver Demirel Yilmaz^1*, Ozge Unal², Ali Gorkem Gencer³, Omer Aydemir⁴, Ziya Selcuk⁵

¹Department of Psychiatry, Hatay Dörtyol State Hospital, Hatay, Turkey

²Education, Health Care and Counseling, PersonaLogia Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

³Department of Psychiatry, Başakşehir State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

⁴Department of Psychiatry, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

⁵Faculty of Education, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

*Corresponding Author:

Enver Demirel Yilmaz
E-mail: enveryilmaz6@yahoo.com.tr

Researchers which aimed to understand human behaviours have propounded many opinions about temperament and personality. Some of them centralize temperament while others centralize personality in their studies. They defined temperament and personality in many ways and tried to explain similar and different features of these concepts. The disagreement of the researchers on the definitions of temperament and personality concepts caused confusion in explaining the relations between these concepts. Besides, this confusion brings along the question “which one is the changeable and unchangeable part of the human behaviours, temperament or personality?� Nine Types Temperament Model (NTTM) is new model that considers human behaviour with a temperament based approach, claims to formulate a holistic model to the definitions, boundaries, scopes, interrelations of temperament, character and personality. The aim of this study is to explain the relation of personality with temperament and to propose an approach which conceptualizes the personality’s unchangeable -originating from the temperament- and changeable facets from the NTTM perspective, which can be a conceptual base for future empirical studies. In this study; first we explained the definitions and the relations of temperament, character and personality propounded by NTTM based on the current literature. Second we proposed “natural personality� concept in order to explain unchangeable features that originate from the individual’s temperament type. Also we proposed “synthetic personality� concept in order to explain the traits that do not exist in the temperament type of the individual and are acquired after birth through parents, school and social transference. In conclusion, in this study we tried to offer a new perspective to the researchers for understanding the nature of temperament -character- personality concepts and the link between them. Additionally, we propounded the concepts of natural and synthetic personality that will be able to answer the questions about changeable and unchangeable facets of personality.

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