A multidimensional model of personality

Abstract

Theories of personality, in their different proposition formulate levels of actuation that range from the associative system (S‐R pattern) to the S's level of significance (S‐S pattern), going through the mediating processes (S‐0‐R pattern). Such divergence of points of view suggested a necessary bridge to link the different patterns and establish a connection from the nucleus to the periphery. This was accomplished by an image of the personality symbolized in a sphere that represents an indivisible concept. The multiplicity of dimensions that characterize man—seen as an indivisible and univocal whole—are represented by the multiple interaction of three worlds: The umwelt, the mitwelt and the eigenwelt, within the sphere of personality.