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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• L'Abate, Luciano

Titel

The Decline and Possible Demise of Personality Psychology: Personalities Without Families

Ist Teil von

• Beyond the Systems Paradigm, 2013, p.27-41

Ort / Verlag

United States: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter argues that personality as a multidimensional construct is difficult to define and therefore to evaluate. As an invented construct, the Self has been used as a synonym for personality (Corr and Matthews 2009; Curtis 1991; Millon 2012). Furthermore, at least in the past, personality seemed to develop in a vacuum of relationships, where intrapsychic and non-relational constructs, such as, for instance, self-esteem, have achieved a cultural and scientific hegemony. Finally, the paramount influence of context has been acknowledged with a recognition of relationships among human beings is what matters in one’s choice of Identity. As Eysenck (1986) questioned whether personality study could ever be scientific, he answered his own question by suggesting that more empirical and experimental research will eventually serve as a foundation for the scientific approach to personality psychology. Even earlier than Eysenck, Dahlstrom (1972) decried the primitive state of what he called the “science of personology.” He reviewed in great detail continuities and discontinuities in traits and types, classifications (“taxonomics”) and dimensional scales as well as the decline of classic typologies in functional and dysfunctional descriptors.