Effects of Cultural Variations on the Personality of Individuals and Their Effect on Psychological Counseling

Qiwen Ye

2025

Abstract

Human personalities are reflection of their individuality as well as group identity, such as diaspora and culture. The traits gained through socialization and belongingness helps share personality which is why even within counselling setting, these differences can be visible. This calls for the need to understand the effects of culture on prevalence of different personality types and traits to underscore its implications on counselling. The study finds that a successful counselling contains understanding the personality traits of each client in the context of their cultural socialization and upbringing. This fulfills the understanding of the clients’ issues and helps in providing resounding and successful interventions and additional help. While doing so, it is important to keep in mind that cultural variations of personality come in form of extraversion and introversion among clients, romantic and creative traits. This study has shown that belonging to different culture shapes personality traits such as expression, openness and creativity, thus, implicating on therapy treatment of individual clients. It allowing to form goals and work on it. Moreover, understanding the different personality types also inform the communication strategies formed for counselling. Lastly, this study emphasise the need for cross-cultural counselling.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ye Q. (2025). Effects of Cultural Variations on the Personality of Individuals and Their Effect on Psychological Counseling. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM; ISBN 978-989-758-791-7, SciTePress, pages 417-423. DOI: 10.5220/0014117700004942

in Bibtex Style

@conference{apmm25,
author={Qiwen Ye},
title={Effects of Cultural Variations on the Personality of Individuals and Their Effect on Psychological Counseling},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM},
year={2025},
pages={417-423},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014117700004942},
isbn={978-989-758-791-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM
TI - Effects of Cultural Variations on the Personality of Individuals and Their Effect on Psychological Counseling
SN - 978-989-758-791-7
AU - Ye Q.
PY - 2025
SP - 417
EP - 423
DO - 10.5220/0014117700004942
PB - SciTePress