AISHA, P2.1 Process/c-Research part

I was so confused between lifestyle and a personality, so in order to clear out things in my mind, I did a research to have enough knowledge about this matter and start to build up my life-styles. 

Personality is the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.

it is also A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another; An assumed role or manner of behavior or  qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.

  

Personality Also is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal condition of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”

Personality comes from the Greek word "persona", meaning "mask"

The word ‘personality’ derives from the Latin word ‘persona’ which means ‘mask’. The study of personality can be understood as the study of ‘masks’ that people wear. These are the personas that people project and display, but also includes the inner parts of psychological experience which we collectively call our ‘self’.

While A life style is : 

A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group:

Usage Note: When lifestyle became popular a generation ago, a number of critics objected to it as voguish and superficial, perhaps because it appeared to elevate habits of consumption, dress, and recreation to categories in a system of social classification. Nonetheless, the word has proved durable and useful, if only because such categories do in fact figure importantly in the schemes that Americans commonly invoke when explaining social values and behavior, as in Rachel Brownstein's remark that "an anticonventional lifestyle is no sure sign of feminist politics, or indeed, of any politics at all." Fifty-three percent of the Usage Panel accepts the word in Bohemian attitudes toward conventional society have been outstripped and outdated by the lifestyles of millions of young people. An even greater numberfully 70 percentaccepts the word in Salaries in the Bay Area may be higher, but it may cost employees as much as 30 percent more to maintain their lifestyles, where the context requires a term that implies categorization based on habits of consumption.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

With all of this research, I figured out that there is a huge difference between a life style and a personality, 

 lifestyle is really abroad while personality is really so narrow and specific; 

 A personality can be classified under certain lifestyle; Example :  if we picked the teenager lifestyle, we can see that teenagers lifestyle is really abroad, and if we picked GEEK personality it would narrow it down, because we specified the personality. 

this is just my opinion and what i have understood  :D

References: 

1- http://wilderdom.com/personality/L5-1WhatIsPersonality.html 

2- http://www.answers.com/topic/personality 

3-http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lifestyle