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Although we are closer to solving these problems, issues remain about how psychologists know whether traits – and any given model of traits – are the right way to construe human personality, and their nature is still largely mysterious.
This section aims at presenting the domain of personality psychology, starting from outlining its key term—personality. Then, it focuses on presenting the chief approaches to the study of personality: psychoanalytic, behavioural and humanistic.
Briefly, traits can be defined as "dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions" (McCrae & Costa, 1990, p. 23).
This chapter reviews five empirically supported principles of personality development: cumulative continuity (i.e., increasing trait stability across development), maturity (i.e., persons grow more socially adapted across development), social investment (i.e., commitment to socially conventional roles promotes maturity), corresponsiveness (i.e ...
29 Νοε 2011 · The readings in this section provide an overview of contemporary personality psychology and offer different perspectives concerning the role that global personality traits can and should play in this important subdiscipline of psychology.
4 Νοε 2020 · The outline of this section follows the historical development of trait theories, starting from Allport’s and Cattell’s typologies, moving to Eysenck’s super-traits, and finally, to the basic five factor model of personality or the Big Five.
Learning Objectives. By the end of this chapter you should be able to: describe how psychologists have sought to define human personality and how it can be distinguished from other attributes; distinguish between the different approaches relating to assessment of individual dif-ferences in personality; describe and evaluate the different theories;
