Personality refers to the enduring, organized patterns of thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior that characterize an individual and distinguish that person from others across situations and over time. Psychological models describe personality through dimensional trait frameworks, such as the broad factors that …
Personality refers to the enduring, organized patterns of thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior that characterize an individual and distinguish that person from others across situations and over time. Psychological models describe personality through dimensional trait frameworks, such as the broad factors that capture individual differences in emotional stability, conscientiousness, and sociability, alongside dynamic accounts of how temperament, identity, and self-concept develop. Personality is assessed using validated self-report inventories, behavioral observation, and increasingly neuroimaging-informed correlates, and is understood to interact with environment and learning history to shape adjustment. Research in this area links personality to mental health and wellbeing, examining how traits and emotional functioning relate to anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and the protective or vulnerability factors operating within family and social contexts. Reflected topics include the role of personality and family interaction in the psychological wellbeing of nursing students, the contribution of mental functions and autobiographical memory to identity formation in adolescence, dissociative amnesia and its therapeutic challenges, deviation behavior in children and youth studied with neuroimaging, and post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of serious illness. Personality matters because it predicts coping, interpersonal functioning, and psychopathology. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on personality structure, development, and its associations with clinical and psychosocial outcomes.
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