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Whole Trait Theory

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Fleeson, William, Jayawickreme, Eranda·2015·Journal of Research in Personality

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Personality researchers should modify models of traits to include mechanisms of differential reaction to situations. Whole Trait Theory does so via five main points. First, the descriptive side of traits should be conceptualized as density distributions of states. Second, it is important to provide an explanatory account of the Big 5 traits. Third, adding an explanatory account to the Big 5 creates two parts to traits, an explanatory part and a descriptive part, and these two parts should be recognized as separate entities that are joined into whole traits. Fourth, Whole Trait Theory proposes that the explanatory side of traits consists of social-cognitive mechanisms. Fifth, social-cognitive mechanisms that produce Big-5 states should be identified.

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Authors: Fleeson, W., & Jayawickreme, E.
Affiliations: Wake Forest University (US)
Corresponding author: Fleeson, William
ORCID: Fleeson, William
Jayawickreme, Eranda
Venue: Journal of Research in Personality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-06
Volume: 56
Pages: 82-92
ISSN: 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.10.009
PMC: PMC4472377
OpenAlex: W2059608342
Cited by: 839
References: 88
Citations by year: 2026: 80 · 2025: 93 · 2024: 81 · 2023: 77 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 108 · 2020: 132 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 46 · 2016: 42 · 2015: 13
FWCI: 40.63
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Templeton World Charity Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: Whole Trait Theory, personality traits, Big Five personality traits, trait models, trait structure

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