Topic: How travelling the world impacts personality
Focus: effects
Introduction
Most people love travelling, it helps them discover new places, learn new things, and it is also a good way of relaxing. Travelling around the world has different effects on people (Lima, 2016). An individual personality is a combination of both genetic factors and their life experiences. A study undertaken by (Zimmermann and Neyer, 2013), found that travelling around the world caused individuals to change their personality characteristics. The three effects in personality that are impacted by travelling around the world include; improve emotional stability; one becomes more open to experience and also develop an agreeable character.
Body paragraph 1
Topic sentence: travelling around the world improves and an individual’s mental stability.
Detail: Emotional stability is a necessary character in personality development. Being stable emotionally means an individual can endure challenging situations and handle hardship and remain productive. Travelling around the world is always accompanied by encountering unfamiliar situations. Such experiences help an individual cope with their challenges and changes in their life with more metal strength (Lima, 2016).
Body paragraph 2
Topic sentence: travelling around the world makes an individual cultivate an openness character.
Detail: when travelling, it is difficult to avoid meeting new people and interacting with new cultures (Markman, 2013). Hence an individual becomes more open to experience as they observe and take part in other people’s way of life.
Body paragraph 3
Topic sentence: travelling around the world makes an individual consider ways of getting along with others (Markman, 2013).
Detail: travelling gives individuals’ fresh outlooks as they meet new people, encounter new sceneries and interact with different cultures. Through these encounters, they associate with other people’s perceptions with creates awareness on the differences and similarities among cultures,
Conclusion
Improved emotional stability, openness, and agreeableness are three effects on an individual’s personality as they travel around the world. Therefore travelling impacts personality development significantly.
References
Lima, L. (2016, January 24). How Travelling Affects Your Personality. Retrieved from HotelsByDay: https://blog.hotelsbyday.com/how-travel-affects-personality/
Markman, A. (2013, September 10). Extended Travel Affects Personality. Retrieved from Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201309/extended-travel-affects-personality
Zimmermann and Neyer. (2013). Do we become a different person when hitting the road? Personality development of sojourners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 105(3), 515-530.