A Welcome Challenge: Some Thoughts About Dunlop's Call for a More Contextualized and Integrative Approach to Personality

摘要

Dunlop presents a strong proposal for pursuing both greater integration and greater contextualization in our assessment of traits, goals and narratives. I found this to be a welcome and timely challenge for the field and one that is likely to produce valuable avenues of research. I make some suggestions for how to enrich the approach, by (1) including social-cognitive constructs, (2) broadening how we define context, and (3) looking beyond inter-contextual variability, by considering how contextualized selves change over time, intersect with one another and predict generalized constructs. Copyright (C) 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology