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1 kwi 2020 · Part 2 introduces and calls into question two widely accepted but nonetheless questionable propositions about the nature of personality: (a) that the term refers to an underlying causal entity...
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1 maj 2023 · Individuals are different in a relatively constant pattern of thoughts, feeling, and behaviors, which are called personality traits. Mental health is a condition of well-being in which people...
1 mar 2017 · The humanistic perspective on personality emphasizes the individualized qualities of optimal well-being and the use of creative potential to benefit others, as well as the relational...
Personality psychology is a rapidly maturing science making important advances on both conceptual and methodological fronts. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology offers a one-stop source for the most up-to-date scientific personality psychology.
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.
Most theories of personality attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated general psychology of motivation, development, individual differences, psychopathology and mental health, as well as an account of more specific phenomena such as dreams, creativity, aggressiveness, or social conformity.
In order to understand core constructs in personality psychology from the standpoint of G. W. Allport’s (1937/1951, 1955, 1961/ 1963) psychology of the individual, one must begin by examining William James’s (1890/2010) seminal version of self-theory (see C. S. Hall & Lindzey, 1970).
