Psychological foundations of personality: A guide for students and teachers.

Thorpe, Louis P.

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“…It may be the biological basis, and certainly, as Thorpe and Allport emphasized, the hereditary basis of personality should be considered, but that does not mean that it is the whole. According to Thorpe (1938), as was noted, other people and social demands were more important than temperament in determining personality. Recently, this has been considered in terms of the influence of culture on personality development.…”

Section: Certainly Argued Against Equating Temperament With Personalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…(G. W. Allport, 1927, p. 285) Other early theorists of personality psychology were also wary of equating the developed personality with temperament (recall Cattell earlier). According to Thorpe (1938), while the nature of original organic equipment may have considerable to do with the trend of a child's temperament, by far the more important factors determinative of personality reside in the social realm, the field of responses to people and social demands. (pp.…”

Section: Certainly Argued Against Equating Temperament With Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To some early trait theorists, a trait is an ontogenetic adjustment, rather than a phylogenetic adjustment like temperament, formed as one adapts to the particular circumstances of one's life (G. W. Allport, 1937;Cattell, 1943aCattell, , 1943bThorpe, 1938). In this adaptive developmental process, personality is forged.…”

Section: Certainly Argued Against Equating Temperament With Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…W. Allport (1937), “The newborn infant lacks personality” (p. 107). Similarly, “We know that personality emerges as an integrated whole from nondescript infant behavior by way of expansions and differentiations of response” (Thorpe, 1938, p. 302). To these early personality psychologists, temperament was simply not personality.…”

Section: Traits Of Personality or Traits Of Temperament?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Traits across cultures: A neo-Allportian perspective.

Piekkola

2011

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Since the inception of the psychology of personality, psychologists have been trying to account for regularities in behavior. The preferred construct has been the personality trait as an inner disposition that directs conduct and which is common to all people. Although found lacking during the 1970s, the search for sources of direction from within has been resurrected in the form of the five-factor theory. According to this approach there are five underling structural factors common to all people and independent of cultural influences-an asocial, ahistorical, biologically based conception. Examination of the theory finds it to be dealing with traits of temperament rather than personality and judges it insufficient on that basis. Rather than conceiving of personality as fixed and universal, it is argued that personality is an adaptation worked out in the cultural and historical context of the individual life. It is further contended that a reconsideration of the personality theory of Gordon Allport will provide a better basis for understanding personality and personality traits specifically.

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Section: Certainly Argued Against Equating Temperament With Personalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Certainly Argued Against Equating Temperament With Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%