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A Holistic View of Personality: A Model Revisited

A Holistic View of Personality: A Model Revisited Many attempts have been made to establish the boundaries of personality research by defining personality. In our opinion, there is no personality as such. What exists is a living, active, and purposeful organism, functioning and developing as a total integrated being. Based on this view, personality research is herein defined as the study of how and why individuals think, feel, act, and react as they do-i.e. from the perspective of the individual as a total, inte­ grated organism. Theoretically, in order to understand how and why an individual functions in a specific way at a given stage of development, two complementary types of theory and model must be distinguished: those that discuss the issue from a current perspective and those that cover it from a developmental perspective. Developmental personality models (e.g. psychoanalytical and genetic mod­ els) analyze and explain current functioning in terms of an individual's devel­ opmental history. Such models are concerned with the ontogeny of relevant aspects of the individual, the timing and expression of significant environmen­ tal events in hislher past and present, and the ways these factors interact to produce current functioning. Development, in its most general form, refers to any process of progressive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Psychology Annual Reviews

A Holistic View of Personality: A Model Revisited

Magnusson, D; Torestad, B
Annual Review of Psychology , Volume 44 (1) – Feb 1, 1993
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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1993 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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0066-4308
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1545-2085
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10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.002235
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Abstract

Many attempts have been made to establish the boundaries of personality research by defining personality. In our opinion, there is no personality as such. What exists is a living, active, and purposeful organism, functioning and developing as a total integrated being. Based on this view, personality research is herein defined as the study of how and why individuals think, feel, act, and react as they do-i.e. from the perspective of the individual as a total, inte­ grated organism. Theoretically, in order to understand how and why an individual functions in a specific way at a given stage of development, two complementary types of theory and model must be distinguished: those that discuss the issue from a current perspective and those that cover it from a developmental perspective. Developmental personality models (e.g. psychoanalytical and genetic mod­ els) analyze and explain current functioning in terms of an individual's devel­ opmental history. Such models are concerned with the ontogeny of relevant aspects of the individual, the timing and expression of significant environmen­ tal events in hislher past and present, and the ways these factors interact to produce current functioning. Development, in its most general form, refers to any process of progressive

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Published: Feb 1, 1993

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