PATTERNS OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: A Key to Understanding Japanese Thought and Behaviour

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Personality disorder: A general term for a group of behavioral disorders characterized by lifelong behavioral patterns. People with personality disorders do not adjust or function well when changing the social environment. The signs of these patterns include inappropriate judgment, emotional control, impulsive control, and human relations functions. Positive symptoms: common symptoms of psychosis, usually schizophrenia. These include hallucinations, delusions, loose associations (ambiguous links between ideas, chaotic flow of the theme of conversation), ambiguity (want to behave in one direction but in the opposite direction), or instability Or rapidly changing emotions

Personality is a complicated phenomenon which is difficult to understand. There is no universally accepted definition. Personality is a personal characteristic that brings about a consistent behavior pattern. It represents a combination of global or stable features that capture the unique characteristics of a person. Personality combines the range of physical and psychological characteristics that reflects the person's appearance, thought, behavior and emotion. There are internal elements and external elements. Extrinsic features are observable behaviors and we can understand person's personality based on that behavior. Internal factors are thoughts, values, and genetic traits inferred from observable behavior. According to Hogan, personality is a relatively stable behavior pattern and a consistent internal state that explains the person's behavioral tendency.