Behavior, genes, and social environment play a vital role in forming a personality: they shape the character and make it original and full. A person’s behavior in a given situation depends on many factors. These include social surroundings, family and community norms, habits, and other reasons. They all determine how a person will act with other people. The actions that people choose to do have a considerable impact on their lives. Society continuously evaluates everyone’s behavior, distinguishing between suitable and unsuitable members. Therefore, people need to know how to behave in a specific situation to achieve life goals.
A person is greatly influenced by the genes of their parents, which together form personality. This occurs at the stage of the creation of the embryo and its intrauterine development. Genes can determine different personality traits, such as whether a person will be energetic or passive. In addition, thanks to genes, a person can acquire qualities such as serenity or, on the contrary, anxiety. Consequently, the genetic background affects a person, since these features accompany all life.
A character can change and develop over time. This is due to the social environment of the person. First, the primary behavioral traits are laid by parents at an early age. In the course of upbringing, a person assimilates the norms adopted in the family and continues to live based on them. In addition, in recent years, the influence of society on consciousness has been increasing, which is also reflected in human behavior. In some cases, people behave stiffly and do not do what they want, because they believe that others will not support it. Sometimes, on the contrary, people are forced to behave in a certain way to not stand out from the crowd. Thus, the behavior is determined not only by genes but also by society. This can be useful for functioning in the modern world but sometimes suppresses the personality (Taun Rogers, 2019). Therefore, it is worth clearly distinguishing between one’s own and imposed character traits.
Reference
Taun Rogers, A. (2019). Human behavior in the social environment: Perspectives on development and the life course. Routledge.