I found some helpful definitions of personality and lifestyle:
Personality:
- Combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive charcater.
- Qualities that make someone interesting or popular.
- Personal characteristics are consistently exhibited, especially when one acts in the presence of others.
- In most, but not all, cases the behaviors one projects in a situation is similar to the behaviors a person exhibits in another situation.
- Personality is the sum of sensory experiences others get from experiencing a person (i.e., how one talks, reacts).
- While one’s personality is often interpreted by those we interact with, the person has their own vision of their personality, called Self Concept, which may or may not be the same has how others view us.
Lifestyle:
- The way in which a person or group lives.
- This influencing factor relates to the way we live through the activities we engage in and interests we express.
- In simple terms it is what we value out of life.
- Lifestyle is often determined by how we spend our time and money.
Based on my interpretation of the information I collected, I could say that the main difference between lifestyle and personality is that a lifestyle is the way a person lives while personality is the way a person is. There is definitively an overlap between these two terms but the difference can be easily stated. The personality of an individual can affect the way the person lives, but there are other factors to consider when we talk about lifestyle: how does a person live? what does a person do? what do you have and consume? how do you dress? the economic level of the person, an so on. The way a person lives does not necessarily reflect who they are: for example, a person can have a lot of money and power but the personality is still humble.
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