Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How where you grow up affects your personality
Which determines human behavior, personality, and traits, nature or
nurture? Nature, or genetics, refers to innate biological factors inherited
from parents, including DNA, eye/hair color, and genetic likelihood of
developing certain diseases or mental health conditions. Nurture, or environment,
includes external factors, such as upbringing, parenting styles, social
relationships, culture, and life experiences. How different would the
personal traits of identical twins, who share almost identical DNA, be if they grew
up in different families, places, or cultures? For example, while people in the
West tend to be more individualistic, the Japanese people are often more
collectivistic. Also, religions play a significant or fundamental role in
shaping personal identity and cultural values. In the meantime, research shows
that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is over 50% heritable on average, while about
40% of personality traits are heritable, meaning the rest is developed or formed
by the environment and opportunities. All in all, it doesn’t seem to be just
one or the other, but both nature and nurture develop one’s personality and capability.
Read the article and learn how one’s personality could be developed differently.
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