Personality Psychology

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Personality Psychology

Personality Traits

Many Psychologists have presented various theories on Personality Traits. Erik Erikson's theory of personality trait is one of the most popular one. Erik Erikson was one of the first theorists who believe that development continues throughout life. He created a theory of development, according to which a person experiences eight stages of development throughout the life. At each stage, there is a specific conflict, which should allow the individual to develop. Every conflict can be resolved by appropriate means, motivating the development of, or inadequate ways, making the transition to the next stage of development. It is believed that the crises remained unresolved or poorly resolved, continue to occur throughout life, they can go and solve them at a later stage (Bandura, Adams, Beyer, 1977).

Trait theories have frequently resorted to the statistical technique of factor analysis when formulating all the features and dimensions on which the structure of human personality. There are two distinct streams in this regard. On one hand, the biological factor models are based on the influence of the physiological and constitutional when characterizing features of the structure of the personality. Moreover, the lexical factor models are based on the linguistic terms that best describe more specifically a different personality attributes. Thus, while the former are based on concepts psychobiological, the second resort to the vocabulary and language to identify the main dimensions of personality. In this sense, it was considered that the lexis factor model suffers from a lower explanatory power to be limited to a mere description of behavior based on purely linguistic concepts, while the biological model goes one step further by making causal inferences from such psychobiological on observed behaviors.

Personality Disposition

Stability and Change of Personality

Personality is formed by a series of features we use to describe and is integrated mediate what we call the self or "self" to form a coherent unit. Among these features is what in psychology is called features (such as aggression, submission, sociability, sensitivity) sets of features (such as extraversion or introversion), and other things that people use to describe themselves, their desires, motivations, emotions, feelings and mechanisms for coping with life. That is, personality is the way we think, feel, behave and interpret reality.

The Personality over Time: Stability, Coherence and Change

In large part, the personality is determined by genes, which provide a variety of biases. But the environment and life ...