Beyond Cross-Role Self-Concepts: Contextualized Personality in Action

摘要

Dunlop suggests that the study of cross-context variability ('contextualized personality') would benefit from the established multi-level conceptualization of ('generalized') personality as traits, goals and life narratives. We agree and highlight the need for a more realistic (i.e. 'contextualized') approach, moving beyond the contextualized self-description of traits, goals and narratives across social roles. A process-oriented behavioural approach might help to understand how contextualized personality is expressed and related to intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes and to disentangle the various ways in which people vary across levels of personality in their everyday lives. Copyright (C) 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology