Dear all, I’ll try to make a brief explanation about those in the title regarding to my discussion “Can we change BAD character?”. Please remember that it’s not an exact science but social (psychology), so there will be broad definition among psychologists. Here is my resume and conclusion.
ATTITUDE (in psychology) is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event. Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport said “Attitude is the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology. In my own language it is an expression toward a certain thing.
Example: denial, believe in things, afraid of spiders.
BEHAVIOR is the range of actions and mannerism in conjunction with themselves or their environment. It is acquired through conditioning that occurs through interaction with the environment. I can say it is a series action that is influenced by social or environment.
Example: being loyal, thinking of others, stealing, courtesy, always feel they are right.
HABIT (in psychology) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously. It requires little or no thought and is learned rather than innate. I define this as a routine of behavior for a certain thing that is learned.
Example: excess smoking, putting a seat-belt after getting into the car, nail-biting.
CHARACTER (in psychology) is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Another dictionary says it is “the stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s life which determines his/her response regardless of circumstances. The broadest definitions have “character” as nearly synonymous with “personality”. According to me, it is the fundamental traits that inherent to person, inborn.
Example: lazy, loyal, gives up easily, generous, late, unfriendly, selfish, bad-tempered, careless, childish.
Source:
https://britannica.com/topic/habit-behavior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/habit
https://thecharacterproject.com/documents/Psychology_RFP.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(psychology)
and other sources…
All of them surely have correlations, but I won’t explain any further since it’s not required. And if you read the examples, you may see the similarities but the intention or meaning is different.
What I mean about BAD character in my discussion are actually from the negative personalities.
There’s no definite personality for every person, but let’s see if we know ourselves. For some of the negative personalities, we could use it to face a certain thing and it could be good to improving ourselves. But for some NEGATIVES also COULD DAMAGE ourselves or our relationship with family, friends or colleagues.
In my religion, Islam teaches how we should do to be a good person. But here, I mean to discuss the negative things through our character. Since people naturally have positive and negative personalities, let’s try to improve ourselves by changing or suppressing the NEGATIVES.
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