Factors Affecting- Influencing Human Behavior

Factors Affecting Behavior

Human behavior includes all of our actions, routines, proclivities, preferences, tensions, and intellectual reactions such as life perception, thinking, remembering, reasoning, and willingness. It is impossible to separate a person's current surroundings from how they are acting at any given moment. Human behavior clearly varies depending on one's stage of life, circumstances, and physical and social settings.

The following variables influence a person's behavior:

Physiological Factors

Bio-chemical and Neuroanatomical Factors

Various neurotransmitters, as well as, brain functions are proposed for variety of behavioural manifestations. It's been stated that three brain functions are proposed for variety of behavioral manifestations:

• Frontal Lobe: Most often works as behavioral activator.
• Parietal Lobe: Most often works as behavioral inhibitator.
• Both lobes work as maintenance.

Likely, in biochemical, various neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, nor-epinephrine, gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) etc. are directly responsible for the maintenance of person's behavior, thought and mood.

Hormonal Role

Some hormones are also appeared as a mediator in emotional reactions:-

• Sexual behavior
• Sadness/happiness                                     Controlled by hormones secreted through adrenal gland
• Anger/aggression

Genetic Approach

Mental characteristics like intelligence, special ability, talent etc. can pass on from the parent to offspring due to chromosomal factors.

Social Factors

One's behavioral patterns are also influenced by social influences. The importance of socialization in shaping one's conduct has been highlighted heavily. The influence of social expectations, early social experiences both inside and outside of the home, social deprivation, social acceptance, the leadership and follower roles, acceptance and rejection of the culturally acceptable gender roles, etc. are all significant behavioral determinants that have an impact on a person's ability to adjust in both their personal and social lives.

Psychological Factors 

These include motive, interest, attitude, will-power, intelligence, reasoning capacities, perception, imagination etc. These factors determine our reaction towards various situations and thus affect our behavior.

Personal Habit, Interest and Will Power

These are responsible for some of our peculiar behaviors that w cannot explain in terms of satisfying mere physiological needs social motives. These are highly individualized and these give a kind of uniqueness in human behavior.