Personality Beyond Traits: Narrow-Sense and Broad-Sense Personality Definitions

摘要

Dunlop tries to integrate the contextualized self-concept perspective and the three-layer model of personality. I strongly support attempts of integration of apparently compatible or even incompatible approaches to bring forward the field of personality research. However, I identified conceptual shortcomings that may be resolved with a clear, common and broad-sense definition of personality. Moreover, Dunlop's integration attempt does not go far enough in specific aspects relevant to the possible marriage of the two approaches. Given these shortcomings, I cannot see a marriage at the moment but rather a first date. Copyright (C) 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology