Assignment Task: Culture and Personality
Consider two people from different parts of the world-one from Argenna and one from South Korea. Both consider themselves to be friendly, hard-working, and spiritual. Do these three personality characteristics manifest in the same behaviors across the two cultures? To what degree did cultural influence shape the two people toward being friendlier, hard-working, and spiritual, and to what degree is the result of individual personality? These are the types of questions that psychologists studying personality across cultures might try to answer, and as you can see, they are quite complicated.
Researchers have developed a set of cultural characteristics that can be used to compare cultures to one another, including how cultures influence the thoughts, behaviors, and emotions of their members. For this Discussion, you reflect on these cultural characteristics for your own culture and how they may have shaped your personality. Need Assignment Help?
To Prepare:
- Review Chapter 12 and consider how your culture has impacted your worldview and personality.
- Pay particular attention to the section on characteristics of Cultures, p. 383-395.
- Select the two cultural characteristics that you find most useful for understanding yourself.
Post a response that includes the following:
Share the degree to which you believe your culture has shaped your personality, being sure to refer to text material. Be specific and provide examples.
Discuss how your selected cultural characteristics help you understand your personality.
Note: Support your post(s) with evidence from at least one Learning Resource. Be sure to identify what source(s) you used, both in the body of your post(s) and with a reference at the end of your post(s).
Respond to at least one of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
To Prepare:
Ask a probing question and provide insight into how you would answer your question and why.
Expand on your colleague's posting by offering a new perspective or insight.
Agree with a colleague and offer additional (new) supporting information for consideration.
Disagree with a colleague by respectfully discussing and supporting a different perspective.
Note: Support your post(s) with evidence from at least one Learning Resource. Be sure to identify what source(s) you used, both in the body of your post(s) and with a reference at the end of your post(s).
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Funder, D. C. (2024). The personality puzzle (9th ed.). W. W. Norton.
- Chapter 11, "Humanistic and Positive Psychology"
- Chapter 12, "Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality"