There are about 10 components in the personality structure. These components can be divided into bodily, psychological, social and directly personal.
Cognitive and affective realms - two opposites
The cognitive area of a person is engaged in cognition and includes such mental processes: memory, attention, perception, understanding, thinking, decision-making. Cognition with the help of them is called rational, that is, reasonable. This is a logical and consistent processing of information.
The affective sphere includes all mental processes not related to the mind. This includes motives, needs, emotional attitude to the world and oneself, impulses and motives. The affective sphere encourages actions that, in simple terms, are called unreasonable.
World perception and consciousness
The next component of the structure of a person's personality is his worldview. Worldview can be defined as a vision of the world as a whole and an attitude towards it. The component of the perception of the world is, in turn, the self-concept. It reflects a person's vision of himself in this world. Each person's picture of the world has its own characteristics. The world can be perceived as safe and dangerous, simple or complex.
Consciousness as a component of the personality structure is an area in which a person can pay attention to his mental processes. These processes are clear and intelligent and can be controlled. The unconscious, however, contains elements that a person cannot "see" and control. This includes processes that take place without the control of consciousness. It is possible to learn about the contents of the unconscious through careful introspection.
Personality focus and experience
The next component is personality orientation. This is what is really important for a person. In other words, this is his driving force, his personal ideology. The orientation of the personality can differ in breadth or narrowness, vary in stability. Usually the orientation of the personality is determined by the person himself, and not by society.
Experience as a component of the personality structure is knowledge and skills acquired during life. They affect a person in the present tense, no matter how long ago they were learned. Personal experience is formed from what the person experienced directly. People also accept other people's experience, public, which is not subject to doubt and personal verification. Some moral and ethical moments can be attributed to social experience.
Abilities and temperament
The personality's abilities are also included in its structure. It can be mental, volitional, mental, bodily abilities. It is part of structure and character - a set of relatively stable modes of behavior and reactions. Despite the existing backbone in the form of character, many other extraneous factors also affect the behavior being implemented. The main ones are habits, willpower and dynamism of actions.
The last component of the personality structure is temperament. In general terms, we can say that this is the energy and dynamics of behavior, the strength of his emotional reactions. By temperament, people are divided into sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic.
