Roles and personality

​​​​​​​From the point of view of the behavioral approach, a person is what he does. If a certain way of human behavior has a semantic core and a predictable scenario, it is called a role.

There are no roles! There are the roles of boss and subordinate, buyers and sellers, visitors to government agencies and officials, there are roles of parents and children, older and younger, loving and offended … As well as confident and not, capable and stupid, lucky and hit by life …

If the role is set by the society, in this case they often talk about the social role.

“He behaves this way because he is the director.” «Well, what do you want, it’s a policeman!»

If the role is created or chosen by the person himself, it is more often said about the personal role, about the personal model and personal image.

Is the girl acting like a girl or like a guy? Guy — like a man or a squishy? Is a man like a leader or an angry kid? Is a woman like a servant or like a queen?

Within the framework of the role approach, a personality can be considered as a set and a dynamic combination of habitual personal and social roles, and the formation of a personality, the achievement of social maturity by it can be presented as the development of certain roles by it. Personality is not just what she does, but what she plays. And she plays either something of her own, or what she was asked. The more primitive and predictable the scenario, the easier it is to agree that a person is a system of roles, and the less you want to do it. The more beautiful, complex and sublime life scenarios, the more they are author’s developments, the more difficult it is to call such behavior role-playing … Almost always there is an opportunity to get out of a role you don’t need, even if it has almost grown into you, and there is always a danger of falling asleep, personally to die in the already familiar, daily, obligatory roles for you.

Does the whole personality come down to the roles we play? Of course not. Much of the behavior is determined by the pattern of the body and its functional state. When fatigue or awakening genes begin to interfere in the implementation of life scenarios, when hormones suddenly begin to play a motivating role, it happens that the most worthy scenarios break down.