Researchers looked at the stability of personality traits from childhood to old age and found that while only about 30% of personality traits are stable during childhood years, this increases to 54% during college years, and up to 74% between the ages of 50 and 70. Personality is not a constant throughout your lifetime. So if you are born with an angry and aggressive personality, does that mean you’ll never be able to change? The short answer is no.
The whole field of psychology is devoted to helping people change themselves for the better. But, don’t feel like you can’t change negative personality traits if you want to. The genes that were passed on to you by your mother and father are the part that you have no control over. Your biological genetics are one main element that determines about 40% of the makeup of your personality.
Not all of our personality development takes place in our childhood, however, and we will look at the main elements that form our early and later personalities. It is then that these 4 main elements of personality begin to take shape and help us become who we are meant to be. Psychologists Reveal The 4 Main Elements That Determine Your Personalityīetween the ages of 2 to 6, we start to develop our own unique sense of self. It is around the ages of the terrible twos that we begin to understand ourselves as separate from our parents and we begin to reveal our own personality. When you are born, you are just beginning to learn about the world and you rarely think ‘Who am I?’ until you are a little older.