Life Span Development and Personality

Life Span Development and Personality

Anne Bartholomay

PSY/300

August 24, 2013

Dr. Theresa Watts

Life Span Development and Personality

During the early courses of their lifespan, human beings begin to develop personality and continue through the course of their lives to modify its fundamental characteristics. According to Gregory Feist (2006), birth-order, gender, and parental modeling are among the influences of early home environment that will affect a child. Hillary Rodham Clinton, born into her position of authority, refined her definition of politics through environmental experience and exposure to education that developed into her intrinsic need for meaning. Due to these factors, Clinton enabled herself to capture the attention of America and refine her political position.

Environment and Heredity

Growing up in an average middle-class family, Hillary Rodham Clinton was surrounded by family with a powerful influence on her psychological development. Her father possessed a strong work ethic and intelligent decision-making skills that aided him in business and personal issues. Using these traits inherited from her father, Clinton developed the core values that enabled her to survive many difficult social and political situations. Her mother possessed amazing emotional inner-strength and a strong concern for social justices (Clinton, 1996). Following this inherited inner-strength directed Clinton and developed her fundamental values in her political agenda.

Inheriting such a strong constitution from her parents, Clinton was enabled to be physically active and maintain a productive agenda as a model of health to women (Watson, 2001). As the first-born, Clinton was endowed with all the parental resources of attention and care (Feist, 2006). First-born children are born into the natural position of responsibility and power as siblings arrive (Feist, 2006).

Both of Clinton’s parents helped to create a family environment full of support and...