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- Personality - American Psychological Association (APA)
Personality is generally viewed as a complex, dynamic integration or totality shaped by many forces, including hereditary and constitutional tendencies; physical maturation; early training; identification with significant individuals and groups; culturally conditioned values and roles; and critical experiences and relationships
- Treating patients with borderline personality disorder
Cluster A groups personality disorders with “odd or eccentric” characteristics, such as paranoid personality disorder Cluster B includes BPD and other personality disorders with dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors Cluster C covers personality disorders with anxious or fearful characteristics, such as avoidant personality disorder
- PERSONALITY - American Psychological Association (APA)
3 Personality doesn’t include fleeting states like hunger, arous-al, or mood Just because a person happens to be happy at a given moment doesn’t mean it is part of his her personality; that is why the “characteristic patterns” part of the definition is so important C Personality includes prominent consideration of diversity because
- What you need to know about willpower: The psychological science of . . .
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1252–1265 Baumeister, et al (2007) The strength model of self-control Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 351–355 Gailliot, M , et al (2007) Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: Willpower is more than a metaphor
- What causes personality disorders? - American Psychological Association . . .
In the past, some believed that people with personality disorders were just lazy or even evil But new research has begun to explore such potential causes as genetics, parenting and peer influences: Genetics Researchers are beginning to identify some possible genetic factors behind personality disorders
- Personality, satisfaction linked throughout adult lifespan
“The personality traits remained equally relevant across the adult lifespan, or became even more interconnected in some cases for work satisfaction ” The researchers also found that different personality traits were related to people’s satisfaction with their social lives and careers—most notably conscientiousness for work satisfaction
- A Concise Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
This is a deeply instructive text on the treatment of borderline personality disorder It is not only richly informative but also written in a very straightforward and readily understood manner —Thomas A Widiger, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders
- Toward a New Approach to the Study of Personality
variance of the personality structure A second way to look at personality and culture is through in-depth analyses of personality in a specific cultural context, often called emic studies There is an increasing appreciation that even within a single psychological domain such as personality, culture exerts effects on different levels (McAdams
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