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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages 204-217Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.61.3.204
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personality; traits; life stories
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Despite impressive advances in recent years with respect to theory and research, personality psychology has yet to articulate clearly a comprehensive framework for understanding the whole person. In an effort to achieve that aim, the current article draws on the most promising empirical and theoretical trends in personality, psychology today to articulate 5 big principles for an integrative science of the whole person. Personality is conceived as (a) an individual's unique variation on the general evolutionary design for human nature, expressed as a developing pattern of (b) dispositional traits, (c) characteristic adaptations, and (d) self-defining life narratives, complexly and differentially situated (e) in culture and social context. The 5 principles suggest a framework for integrating the Big Five model of personality, traits with those self-defining features of psychological individuality constructed in response to situated social tasks and the human need to make meaning in culture.
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