Contextualizing Personality Psychology
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ABSTRACT The issue of how to contextualize personality psychology constructively has been a longstanding dilemma. This special issue brings together personality, social, self, clinical, and cultural psychologists who have attempted to contextualize the self, personality, attachment, and cultural constructs in an integrative fashion, with a focus on broader situations, such as social roles. In this introductory essay, I describe the potential advantages of integrating traditional concepts in personality psychology with social roles and provide an overview of the contributions made to the special issue.
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While mortality risk due to low IQ is partially associated with mortality risk due to low SES, the role of maladaptive personality traits in these associations has been rarely studied.
“Another area for further study is the interface between IQ, personality, and SES links to longevity: while mortality risk due to low IQ is partially associated with mortality risk due to low SES, the role of maladaptive personality traits in these associations has been rarely studied [37].”
From Personality and Longevity: Knowns, Unknowns, and Implications for Public Health and Personalized Medicine (2011) · cites this paper as [37]
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- Authors
- Roberts, B. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Roberts, Brent W.
- ORCID
- Roberts, Brent W.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-09-17
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1071-1082
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2097068070
- Cited by
- 171
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 1.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (AG19414, R03AG019414)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- personality psychology, social roles, self, attachment, cultural constructs, integrative theory, social psychology
- MeSH terms
- Cultural Characteristics, Ego, Humans, Internal-External Control, Models, Psychological, Personality, Personality Assessment, Personality Development, Research Design, Self Concept, Social Control, Informal, Temperament, Personal Autonomy
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