Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept

Fajkowska, Małgorzata

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“…The approach we have taken differs meaningfully from how others have approached the study of personality coherence. Fajkowska (2013, 2015), for instance, conceptualizes personality as a complex hierarchical system with a three-level nesting structure (i.e., behaviors and actions; trait-, type-, and pattern-based structures; and biological-psychological mechanisms/processes), and with organizational (i.e., top-down) and emergent (i.e., bottom-up) processes that serve respectively to regulate and integrate the system. Within this framework, personality coherence (vs. incoherence) is conceptualized in structural and functional terms as a higher-order property of the personality system, reflecting cross-level correspondences (vs. conflicts) between a set of internal mechanisms at one level of the hierarchy and a set of overt responses and behaviors at another.…”

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“…Our approach has therefore been to first estimate the coherence of personality at each layer and then ask if the coherence indicators correlate across layers, rather than to estimate the coherence of personality intra-individually from functional cross-level consistencies (cf. Fajkowska, 2013, 2015). We consider cross-layer coherence to be an important direction for future research, as we discuss in greater detail later.…”

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Components and Correlates of Personality Coherence in Action, Agency, and Authorship

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Personality coherence is an individual difference capturing the extent to which a person’s psychological characteristics are coordinated, unified, and integrated. The present research addressed the extent to which coherence indicators inter-correlate and predict relevant outcomes over and above the effects of the Big Five among midlife adults ( N = 446). Coherence indicators loaded onto four components: actor coherence, which captured the extent to which people were consistent in their interpersonal values, traits, and behavior; agent coherence, which captured the extent to which people’s goals were coordinated and need-congruent; author coherence, which captured the extent to which people’s self-defining stories were well composed and theme laden; and controlled coherence, which captured the extent to which people experienced their goals as pressured or compelled and as leading them to need-detracting futures. Although actor coherence correlated with both agent and author coherence, agent and author coherence were not correlated. Nevertheless, the actor-, agent-, and author-coherence composites each predicted at least one of the outcome variables (i.e., well-being, autonomy, and ego development) over and above the Big Five. The present findings suggest that the coherence of personality constitutes an individual difference domain of consequence beyond the established content dimensions of personality.

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Components and Correlates of Personality Coherence in Action, Agency, and Authorship

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“…Research on personality coherence has a long history, with early roots in Allport’s (1937) work and a heyday in the 1990s (e.g., Cervone, 1999), lasting until today (Fajkowska, 2013; 2015; Fournier et al, 2015). Allport understood personality coherence or “personality integration” as the lawful organization of psychological attributes within the individual (Allport, 1937)—a conceptualization that different personality perspectives, communities, and theories subsequently adopted, marginally at least (Fournier et al, 2015).…”

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The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions

Quirin

Kühl

2022

Eur J Pers

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Several psychological approaches concern explaining the dynamic psychological processes and mechanisms that render personality a coherent whole, a “well-sounding concert.” Building upon personality systems interactions (PSI) theory, which explains personality functioning on the basis of interactions among cognitive and affective-motivational personality systems, we demonstrate how diverse perspectives on personality coherence may functionally be integrated. To do so, we describe interactions among four cognitive personality systems considered to underlie and optimize two meta principles of personality functioning—self-growth (in terms of the integration of adverse experiences) and action control (in terms of goal pursuit). These meta principles establish different subtypes of personality coherence differentially focused by psychological perspectives. We highlight the interdisciplinary relevance and practical application of the present approach and conclude with implications for future research.

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“…The studies were conducted within a broader conceptual framework that construes personality as an intra-individual system that develops and function in interaction with the social world (Cervone, 2004; Cervone, 2005). Systems thinking in personality (Cervone, 1997; Cloninger et al., 1997; Kuhl, 1996; Mischel & Shoda, 1995) and in psychology more generally (Eidelson, 1997; Novak, Vallacher, & Lewenstein, 1994) gained prominence decades ago and is firmly established today (Fajkowska, 2013; Mayer, 2015; Rose et al., 2013; Sosnowska et al., 2019). Yet, the methodological challenges posed by systems thinking often are not fully met.…”

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Personality coherence in acts and texts: Searching for coherence within and beyond trait categories

McKenna

Cervone

Roy³

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Eur J Pers

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This paper reports two studies that explore complementary aspects of personality coherence. Study 1 addressed cross-situational coherence in contextualized psychological response. Idiographically-tailored methods assessed individuals’ (i) beliefs about their personal attributes, (ii) subjective “mappings” of these attributes to everyday circumstances, and (iii) self-reported contextualized action tendencies. A novel index of idiographic–nomothetic relations gauged the degree to which the idiographic methods yield unique information. Participants’ mappings commonly deviated from the structure of nomothetic trait categories; people often grouped together contextualized action tendencies traditionally associated with different trait categories. The idiographic mappings predicted cross-situational coherence in action tendencies. Study 2 asked whether the contextualization of personal qualities would be evident when people merely are asked to describe their personal attributes in natural language. Participants wrote narratives describing positive and negative qualities. Narratives were coded for the presence of three linguistic features: conditional statements, probabilistic statements, and personality trait inconsistencies. All three occurred frequently. Furthermore, they co-occurred; among participants who described trait-inconsistent attributes, the large majority spontaneously cited conditions in which these attributes are manifested. People who recognize that they possess inconsistent personal qualities may nonetheless attain a coherent understanding of themselves by spontaneously developing a contextually-embedded sense of self.

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Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept

Cited by 10 publications

References 103 publications

Components and Correlates of Personality Coherence in Action, Agency, and Authorship

Components and Correlates of Personality Coherence in Action, Agency, and Authorship

The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions

Personality coherence in acts and texts: Searching for coherence within and beyond trait categories

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