The character of each person is a combination of positive and negative qualities. Bad human character traits can seriously complicate the life of their owner, as well as those around him. Very often, a person may not even suspect that he has such qualities, and may not understand why people around him avoid communicating with him.
Pride, arrogance
These traits are characteristic of people who feel superior, in their opinion, over other people. Excessive ambition and self-confidence give rise to such character traits. Ambitions can conflict with real possibilities. In this case, a person can humiliate other people, thereby asserting himself at their expense.
Despotism, cruelty
The desire to control and manage, to subjugate other people, often involves elements of cruelty. As a rule, these negative character traits originate from childhood, when a person was subjected to humiliation and cruelty from parents or loved ones. Angry at the whole world, he transfers cruelty to the people around him.
Irritability, short temper
Like all others, these qualities have an extremely negative impact on their owner and have a destructive effect on the human psyche. Character imbalance is often a consequence of neurological and mental disorders and needs correction.
Condemnation, criticism
Such character traits manifest themselves in constant dissatisfaction, the desire to criticize and condemn everything around: other people, the government, the country, the world around us. People who constantly express condemnation show little tolerance for themselves. The hidden cause of dissatisfaction with the world and oneself is often the following quality.
Envy
The tendency to envy occurs in people who want to have something in their life, but are faced with the impossibility of having it. Underestimating your own abilities while watching others succeed can develop this negative quality.
Pessimism, weakness of will
Pessimism and weakness of will - negative character traits, causing a person’s negative vision of the world around him. People with low self-esteem and insecure people are susceptible to this perception. Weakness is a consequence of excessive love and overprotection by parents in childhood, which does not allow the child to become independent.
Greed, stinginess
The reason for greed in people can be family memories of hard times and material deprivation in childhood. In this case, there appears an excessive attachment to material and financial values, dependence on them, and the desire to accumulate more and more of them.
Irresponsibility, deceit
Individuals who do not take responsibility for their words, promises and actions completely lose the trust of people over time. Irresponsibility is often accompanied by lies. These negative character traits are frequent companions of each other. The reasons for lying are the fear of being judged, punished, the desire to embellish one’s abilities.
These are just some of the bad character traits of a person that can overshadow all his positive qualities. Often such traits have roots in childhood: dislike or overprotection, inattention of parents to children, errors in upbringing can become the basis for the development of such manifestations of character. " Everyone has their own demons..."- sounds in one modern song. It is very important to identify these “demons”, accept the presence of them and begin work on neutralizing them.
As Victor Hugo used to say, a person has three characters: one is attributed to him by his environment, another he attributes to himself, and the third is real, objective.
There are more than five hundred human character traits, and not all of them are clearly positive or negative; much depends on the context.
Therefore, any personality that has collected certain qualities in individual proportions is unique.
A person’s character is a specific, unique combination of personal, ordered psychological traits, characteristics, and nuances. It is formed, however, throughout life and manifests itself during work and social interaction.
Soberly assessing and describing the character of the chosen person is not an easy task. After all, not all of its properties are demonstrated to the environment: some features (good and bad) remain in the shadows. And we seem to ourselves to be somewhat different than what we see in the mirror.
Is it possible? Yes, there is a version that this is possible. Through long efforts and training, you are able to assign yourself the qualities you love, becoming a little better.
A person's character is manifested in actions, in social behavior. It is visible in a person’s attitude to work, to things, to other people and in her self-esteem. 
In addition, character qualities are divided into groups - “volitional”, “emotional”, “intellectual” and “social”.
We are not born with specific traits, but acquire them through the process of upbringing, education, exploration of the environment, and so on. Of course, the genotype also influences the formation of character: the apple often falls extremely close to the apple tree.
At its core, character is close to temperament, but they are not the same thing.
In order to relatively soberly assess yourself and your role in society, psychologists advise writing down your positive, neutral and negative traits on a piece of paper and analyzing them.
Try to do this too; you will find examples of character traits below.
Positive character traits (list)
Negative character traits (list)
At the same time, some qualities are difficult to classify as good or bad, and they cannot be called neutral. So, any mother wants her daughter to be shy, silent and bashful, but is this beneficial for the girl?
Again, a dreamy person may be cute, but completely unlucky because he always has his head in the clouds. An assertive individual looks stubborn to some, but obnoxious and pushy to others.
Is it bad to be gambling and carefree? How far has cunning gone from wisdom and resourcefulness? Do ambition, ambition, and determination lead to success or to loneliness? It will probably depend on the situation and context.
And what you want to be, you decide for yourself!
Personal qualities of a person– these are complex, biologically and socially determined components of personality. By bringing together all the personal qualities of a person, you can get his complete psychological portrait.
Personality qualities are usually divided intopositive and negative. What are these qualities and can a personality consist of only positive qualities?
Personality qualitiesexpressfeatures of mental processes, states and properties of an individual, his character traits, temperamental features, specific behavior, interactions with other people, the environment, himself, that is, all the individual psychological characteristics of the individual. In addition, a person's personal qualitiesincludehis knowledge, skills and abilities.
There are many classifications of personality traits and even more personality typologies based on these classifications. Psychologists have always been interested in the mystery of the human personality and they tried to sort it out “on the shelves.”
But why does an ordinary person (not a professional psychologist) need to know about what personal qualities there are? The fact is that knowledge generates self-awareness, increasesawareness. A person who knows what personality traits exist canidentify them for yourself, and then indicate the paths and directionswork on yourself.
Also, knowing about personality traits, you can understand more aboutpeople around, learn how to properly build and maintain relationships.
The first stage of a relationship of any kind involves getting to know each other, which is essentially a clarification of personal qualities. When two people first meet (be it a job interview or a man and a woman's first date), there is alwaysneed to knowwhat kind of person is in front of you? It is not for nothing that a resume requires you to indicate not only your work experience and basic data, but also list personal qualities, knowledge, skills and abilities.
So, if you need to know your personal qualities in order to understand how to further develop your personality, then knowledge of the personal characteristics of another person is important insofar as it allows you to determine compatibility with him and suggest what kind of relationship may develop.
Positive personality traits are usually supported, reinforced and developed, while negative people try to correct, change or eradicate.
But the division of personality traits into positive and negativeconditional! It is based on generally accepted rules and norms of morality and ethics. You need to understand that such a subtle matter as a person’s personality, in fact, cannot be decomposed into “black” and “white”.
Personality qualities that are usually called negative are not absolute, butrelativelynegative, just like positive qualities. For example, in a situation where you need to stand up for yourself, aggressiveness (which is considered a negative trait) becomes necessary and simply necessary.
A person's personal qualities can be:congenital, so acquired. Certain personality qualities are developed either under the influence of the environment and society (upbringing) or are a consequenceself-education.
A person can develop many qualities, traits, behavioral characteristics, abilities, skills,work out, so and eradicate.
Of course, there are personality traits that are practically impossible to change, but you still shouldn’t hang “labels” (either on yourself or on others)!
A person can always, if not change radically, then at least learn to compensate for some of his qualities by developing others.
Negative human qualities, which are undesirable and require correction, all together would form not just a large, but a huge list. Therefore, only a few of them are listed below:
All these personality traits give rise to a correspondingbehaviorThus, a deceitful person lies to everyone all the time, a lazy and careless person is in no hurry to do his work, and an irresponsible person constantly lets himself and others down.
The presence of one or another negative quality spoils the life of the person himself and/or other people, but in any case, itnot a sentence. By working on yourself, you can improve the quality of your life, relationships with others, and become happier.
Positive human qualities
The list of positive qualities of a person is as endless as the list of negative traits. Perhaps most of all, such people are revered and welcomedpositive traits, How:
These positive qualities give rise to correspondingskills and abilities: the ability to make friends, love, learn, create, work, and so on.
In the article “” you will find another informative list of positive personality traits.
As you can see, both the list of a person’s negative qualities and the list of positive ones includes not only those qualities that express the individual’s attitude towards other people and society, but also towards himself, work, things, and the world as a whole. This is because a person’s personal qualitiesmanifest themselves in everything: from who he works to what colors in clothes he prefers.
It is rare to meet a person whose personality contains only positive human qualities. But there are many people whose personality structureprevail such qualities.
Any person always has conditionally negative personality traits, those that are worth working on, but their presence should not be a problem, but a stimulus for development and growth.
Make sure that there is less negativity and positive personality traits predominate,every person can do it!
In what direction do you most often have to work on yourself?
Here is a list of negative human character traits from the appendix to Andrei Zhalevich’s book “The New Philosophy of Prosperity. Fundamental principles of success, harmony and happiness."
Your flaws are avenues for beauty to emerge, this is where the light enters you.
Rumi
Qualities that can and should be sought only in yourself. If we notice them not in ourselves, but in someone else, this is a danger signal! Firstly, this is a sign that we have this quality in ourselves. Secondly, if we, having noticed one of these qualities in someone, do not switch to searching for this quality in ourselves, but continue to observe this quality in another person, then in this case we transfer it to ourselves, like a file from someone else’s computer. In this way, psychological charging can occur.
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We can safely call every person unique to one degree or another. What makes him such? It’s all very simple, a combination of external data and character traits with the help of which a person appears before you in his usual state. The list of qualities can be continued ad infinitum; they provide a person’s individuality, allowing him to be different from other people. In fact, it is not so easy to take and count the number of characteristic traits that a particular person possesses. Is it necessary to consider only good qualities? Maybe we should put bad characteristics at the forefront? It is very important to adequately characterize a person, give him an assessment and understand at the same time that a person cannot have only a good set of qualities or only a bad one.
List of human qualities
Why make all these lists and lists at all? Psychologists say that thanks to all these lists it is possible to conduct an analysis and highlight a number of aspects. When compiling a list of the qualities of another person, we ourselves will, in one way or another, strive to analyze ourselves, although this happens completely unconsciously, but still. You can find weaknesses and turn them into strengths, gradually get rid of shortcomings and continue to confidently work on yourself.
Positive character traits
It is impossible to list all the advantages, there are a lot of them. In fact, more than you might imagine. Some characteristics allow you to interact with people, while others allow you to do a great job when asked by your boss at work. Let us outline a number of key positive qualities of a person:
- kindness. This quality lives in each of us, but in modern society there is a stereotype that it is not possible to meet a kind person. The problem is the crazy pace of life, which dictates its own conditions and quite often locks a person into a framework. Look around, what do you see? There are only egocentrics around who believe that the world should revolve only around them. But you can always find this quality in yourself and try to develop it;
- sense of humor. One great classicist called the quality called "gaiety" outstanding. Its peculiarity is that a person can lift the mood of people who are nearby, relieving them of depressing thoughts. It’s nice to be in the same room with such people, they charge you with positivity and set the right mood in life, which allows you to just enjoy life without paying attention to what’s happening around you;
- determination. Thanks to this quality, you can feel like an independent person, because many people associate determination with the absence of a sense of fear;
- determination. It is important to set a goal and confidently move towards achieving it, so the owners of this quality can safely be called lucky;
- feeling of compassion. This quality is valued in our time, because if a person knows how to empathize and support a loved one in difficult times, he will greatly alleviate his suffering and solve his problems;
- politeness. This character trait in the eyes of others represents a person as tactful, balanced and not prone to conflict. It is very important to always maintain composure and look dignified;
- communication skills. If a person knows how to quickly establish contacts and make friends, then he is a sociable person who will achieve a lot in life and go far;
- punctuality. In a world where everyone is late and doesn't follow orders, this quality allows you to stand out from the crowd. Such people know how to plan their time, they value in people the ability to do everything on time and follow the rules;
- self-criticism. Each of us must adequately assess the situation and be able to laugh at ourselves. This characterizes you as a strong and confident person who is not afraid to admit her mistake and say publicly that she did something wrong;
- modesty. A person who does not exalt himself and does not put himself above everyone else looks decent. And this is even despite the fact that he has something to brag about and stand out from the crowd. It’s always nice to communicate with people who have achieved a lot and at the same time do not try to talk about themselves at every turn;
- confidence. A quality that every person strives for. After all, it is so important to be 100% sure that you are doing everything right. Such people are not afraid to express their opinions publicly; they know how to manage emotions and make the only right decision in stressful situations.
Negative human character traits
At different ages, a person is able to exhibit, along with positive qualities, also bad ones, which characterize him from the other side. Why do these qualities arise?
The parents could have made mistakes in raising the child, or the person has always shown a tendency towards unseemly behavior. Despite this. Even bad heredity can and should be fought; now we will look at a number of negative qualities of human character:
- hot temper. Usually people who have this quality do not know how to control their emotions, they are unrestrained and cause problems to everyone around them. You must try to restrain your emotional manifestations and keep your promises;
- envy. It is not for nothing that this quality is called one of the worst character traits that harms the development of a person as an individual. Someone is more beautiful, richer, smarter - which means that the person is definitely worth envying, and some people even try to do everything possible to poison the life of the object of their envy. You should not pay attention to the successes of other people, you need to confidently work on yourself;
- arrogance. It is very difficult to contact such people in everyday life; they consider themselves better than others and do not get tired of repeating this. If you don’t stop in time and try to get rid of arrogance, your family and friends may turn away from you forever;
- selfishness. Such persons are doomed to die in splendid isolation, and all because they think only about themselves and care exclusively about themselves. Sooner or later, friends and relatives will turn away from you, who are simply tired of constantly taking care of you;
- arrogance. Such persons are always looked down upon and therefore no one likes them. If you do not stop behaving arrogantly and live in splendid isolation, without friends and girlfriends, without support from others;
- hypocrisy. A person who says one thing to his face and another behind his back will sooner or later compromise himself with something, and then a scandal will definitely not be avoided. It is necessary to make every effort to eradicate this bad quality in yourself;
- pessimism. Often such people complain to others about life, they are constantly dissatisfied with something, and the nerves of those around them lose their nerve very quickly. No one will like the fact that they are always telling you their problems and trying to blame the whole world for your failures. Remember one very important rule: if you initially set yourself up for failure, be prepared for it to stay with you for a long time;
- laziness. Nobody likes lazy people, and no one will definitely work for you either. After all, such a person will definitely find a million excuses for doing nothing. If you don’t stop spending all your free time on the couch, you will remain an unsuccessful person who will achieve nothing in life;
- impudence. Achieving a goal for such people will not be difficult; you can always go over your head, not paying attention to other people’s principles and ambitions. Nobody likes arrogant people, and everyone around them treats them with characteristic aggressiveness;
- infantilism. It is very convenient in our society to be a capricious, spoiled person who shows his immaturity in making even the most banal decisions. People around them avoid such people so that they don’t have to solve their problems again;
- cruelty. One of the worst human qualities, because such people are capable of any actions and deeds. It all starts in childhood, when a child deliberately tortures an animal, then teases classmates and, in adulthood, behaves cruelly towards work colleagues.
Everyone has the right to decide for themselves which qualities to develop in themselves and which ones need to be eradicated as soon as possible. One thing is clear, if you stand still and take absolutely no action, your unpleasant baggage of personal qualities and characteristics will remain with you. You need to work on yourself every day, because depending on the circumstances, certain characteristics appear and it is not always possible to control them in moments of overwhelming emotions. On the other hand, you should definitely make every effort if you realize that you are behaving incorrectly. Positive character traits should be developed, negative ones should be actively combated - it’s all very simple. If you don't like something, you can always correct it or fix it altogether. You cannot characterize a person as “bad” or “good” or give him some other assessment, because everything in this world is relative. A person who is engaged in self-development will never be guided by someone else's opinion and consider it the only correct one. Remember that everything in this life depends only on you and the decisions you make. There are bad and good qualities in each of us, but we have the right to dose them, revealing the facets of our character every day from a new side.
