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Towards an explanatory personality psychology: Integrating personality structure, personality process, and personality development

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Abstract Structural approaches to personality have brought about considerable progress in description and prediction of interindividual differences in thoughts, feelings, and behavior. However, in order to move towards personality psychology… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Structural approaches to personality have brought about considerable progress in description and prediction of interindividual differences in thoughts, feelings, and behavior. However, in order to move towards personality psychology as an explanatory science, we argue that structural, process-oriented and developmental approaches to personality have to be integrated. We summarize the main propositions of a theoretical framework published in a target article in the European Journal of Personality (Baumert et al., 2017a), and highlight the resulting challenges for future personality research.

Keywords: psychology; explanatory personality; towards explanatory; process; personality; personality psychology

Journal Title: Personality and Individual Differences
Year Published: 2019

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