Personality and the conduct of everyday life

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to present a theory of persons that is rooted in the way persons conduct their everyday lives. The approach and the key concepts in the theory are presented in the second, central part of the paper. This theoretical approach to personhood is unusual. Current research on personality recognizes that personality must be studied in the interplay between personsituation-behavior. In the first part of the paper I present some of the core issues in those studies. The theoretical approach aims at resolving these issues. These issues are one of the two major sources of inspiration for the theoretical approach. The other important source of inspiration are studies of psychological interventions. In the third part of the paper I present a study that illuminates how the theory may provoke and enrich our understanding of interventions.

EPortfolio and learning styles in clinical nursing education

“…[26] Writing thoughts and experiences in ePortfolio provides a fixed text that is open to further reflection, contrary to the evanescent quality of live dialogue. Although the Honey and Mumford learning style theory [26,27] does not focus on learning by writing, the abovementioned research indicates benefits from writing that are important to every nurse student, regardless of preferred learning style. Academic writing competency is, of course, a requirement to achieving a Baccalaureate degree.…”

“…A Danish professor and psychologist, Ole Dreier lays emphasis on the significance of self-understanding of one's conduct of everyday life and the reasoning behind it, because it provides meaning, confidence and security, and makes everyday toil manageable. [27] According to Dreier we live our lives in and across different contexts in an individual life trajectory and follow different aims within these contexts. Part of this life trajectory is a learning trajectory, which differs from, and goes beyond, institutional education.…”

“…Part of this life trajectory is a learning trajectory, which differs from, and goes beyond, institutional education. [27] In order to manage everyday toil of completing a nursing course, students need to be conscious of what effort is needed to learn and the rea-sons for making this effort. Students with little experience or knowledge of learning by writing will generally not choose to write in ePortfolio and they may not consider that it would have meaning for them.…”

Qualitative research building real-life interventions: user-involving development of a mindfulness-based lifestyle change support program for overweight citizens

“…This makes critical psychology a useful framework for the analysis of data from individual and group articulations in the program, in terms of finding, enhancing and inventing intervention features that are supportive in the social-psychological landscape of everyday habits and habit modification. [30][31][32] Specific setup An initial model intervention was drafted, combining mindfulness, group dynamics and small steps. Details were described in an intervention protocol.…”

Siblings – Practical and Sensitive Relations

“…This approach is further unfolded by adding Ole Dreier's concept of life conduct, which also focuses on human behaviour and includes the connection between the social and the individual. Life conduct is an individual's practical approach to minding themselves in rela-tion to the social arrangements they are part of, which is closely related to the understanding of the self said individual develops (Dreier 2011). In her research, Jenny Ahlberg has thematized the part of children's life conduct that includes doubts, choices and rejections in divorced families (Ahlberg 2008).…”