personality

Personality describes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that make up a person’s unique adjustment to life. Personality is relatively stable, but can change over time due to experiences and developmental processes. Although there is no consensus definition of personality, most theories in personality focus on traits, motivation, skills, and identity.

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Personality is the unique combination of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that shape how a person adjusts to life, and while it tends to remain relatively stable, it can shift over time through experiences and development. Researchers study personality by examining traits, motivations, skills, and identity, though they don't all agree on a single definition of what personality actually is.

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Research

13,325,578 papers

Examining the effects of birth order on personality.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Rohrer JM, Egloff B, Schmukle SCDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506451112
On Personality Measures and Their Data: A Classification of Measurement Approaches and Their Recommended Uses.ReviewPersonality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2024Mayer JD, Bryan VMDOI: 10.1177/10888683231222519
Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.Journal of personality and social psychology · 1987Hazan C, Shaver PDOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.52.3.511
A Holistic Approach of Personality Traits in Medical Students: An Integrative Review.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Suciu N, Meliț LE, Mărginean CODOI: 10.3390/ijerph182312822
The role of personality in neighborhood satisfaction.PloS one · 2023Neal ZP, Brutzman BDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282437
Personality and quality of life: the importance of optimism and goal adjustment.ReviewQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2003Wrosch C, Scheier MFDOI: 10.1023/a:1023529606137
The Personality of the Alcoholic through Seven Perspectives.Psychiatria Danubina · 2020Mešanović M, Pajević I, Hasanović M et al.
Personality development and the dually diagnosed person.ReviewResearch in developmental disabilities · 1989Zigler E, Burack JADOI: 10.1016/0891-4222(89)90012-7

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Contents

Measuring
Five-factor inventory
Developmental biological model
Environmental factors
Cross-cultural studies
Historical development of concept
Temperament and philosophy
Mental make-up
Empiricists and rationalists
Biology
Personology
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Research in personality psychology generally attempts to explain the characteristics of a person that underlie differences in behavior. Personality characteristics are related to many life outcomes, such as work and relationship success, mental health, well-being, and longevity. Over time, psychologists have taken many different approaches to study personality, which can be organized across dispositional, biological, intrapsychic (psychodynamic), cognitive-experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment domains. The various approaches used to study personality today reflect the influence of the first theorists in the field, a group that includes Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Gordon Allport, Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers.