Goals to change personality traits: Concurrent links between personality traits, daily behavior, and goals to change oneself

Hudson, Nathan W.; Roberts, Brent W.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.08.008

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“…De Fruyt et al, 2012;Magidson, Roberts, ColladoRodriguez, & Lejuez, 2014;Webb & Sheeran, 2006); and (d) others' behavior or words (model learning; Bandura, 2003). Thoughts such as about goals to change personality Hudson & Roberts, 2014;McAdams, Ruetzel, & Foley, 1986;Snyder & Ickes, 1985) are discussed under "Environmental and Personal Factors Contributing to TESSERA Sequences." Within the TESSERA framework, single situations trigger expectancies and/or states ( Figure 1).…”

Section: Tessera Componentsmentioning

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“…Some recent theoretical work explicitly focuses on deliberate personality development and highlights the active role of the individual in achieving personality continuity and change Hudson & Roberts, 2014;). Currently, we can only speculate that personality development is more pronounced when TESSERA processes occur more deliberately.…”

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Processes of Personality Development in Adulthood: The TESSERA Framework

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Roberts

2016

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The current article presents a theoretical framework of the short- and long-term processes underlying personality development throughout adulthood. The newly developed TESSERA framework posits that long-term personality development occurs due to repeated short-term, situational processes. These short-term processes can be generalized as recursive sequence of Triggering situations, Expectancy, States/State expressions, and Reactions (TESSERA). Reflective and associative processes on TESSERA sequences can lead to personality development (i.e., continuity and lasting changes in explicit and implicit personality characteristics and behavioral patterns). We illustrate how the TESSERA framework facilitates a more comprehensive understanding of normative and differential personality development at various ages during the life span. The TESSERA framework extends previous theories by explicitly linking short- and long-term processes of personality development, by addressing different manifestations of personality, and by being applicable to different personality characteristics, for example, behavioral traits, motivational orientations, or life narratives.

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Section: Tessera Componentsmentioning

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Section: Moderators Of the Tessera Components: Valence External-intementioning

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Processes of Personality Development in Adulthood: The TESSERA Framework

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Roberts

2016

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“…In other words, changing state expressions of traits are considered desirable or necessary. Research with mostly college-aged samples found that most people want to change at least some aspects of their personality (Allan, Leeson, & Martin, 2014;Hudson & Fraley, 2015; CHANGING PERSONALITY TRAITS 13 Hudson & Roberts, 2014). Recent research has shown that the desire to change personality traits are not only prevalent among younger adults; older adults also express substantial desires for personality change (Hudson & Fraley, 2016b).…”

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Changing personality traits: Some considerations from psychotherapy process-outcome research for intervention efforts on intentional personality change.

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Flückiger

2017

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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There is a recent debate in the field of personality development whether and how personality traits can be modified or changed over short periods of time. Whereas traditional positions highlight the relative stability of personality traits in adulthood, recent research investigates intentional personality trait change, that is, desires and attempts to change personality traits. The main goal of the present article is to connect recent activities and intervention efforts in personality psychology with psychotherapy process-outcome research. More specifically, we argue that 4 empirically derived common change factors in psychotherapy research might provide some useful heuristic principles for personality change interventions in normal population that do not particularly suffer from personality disorders. We discuss the implications of the use of these principles to change personality traits and suggest some ideas for future research and practice. There is a recent debate in the field of personality development whether and how personality traits can be modified or changed over short periods of time. Whereas traditional positions highlight the relative stability of personality traits in adulthood, recent research investigates intentional personality trait change, that is, desires and attempts to change personality traits. The main goal of the present paper is to connect recent activities and intervention efforts in personality psychology with psychotherapy process-outcome research. More specifically, we argue that four empirically derived common change factors in psychotherapy research might provide some useful heuristic principles for personality change interventions in normal population that do not particularly suffer from personality disorders. We discuss the implications of the use of these principles to change personality traits and suggest some ideas for future research and practice.

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“…Whereas traits correspond to dispositional tendencies, motivations reflect what one wants to do, obtain and become (Roberts & Robins, ) and what one does to get there (Hudson & Roberts, ; McCabe & Fleeson, ). Because of these differing foci, it is perhaps unsurprising that traits and motivations have led largely ‘separate lives’ (Winter, John, Stewart, Klohnen, & Duncan, , p. 230) within our discipline.…”

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Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits

2015

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Personality psychologists have become increasingly interested in how personality varies across social roles. Within this 'contextualized' approach, researchers almost invariably focus on assessing personality traits. Although these characteristics are no doubt important components of personality, there are many aspects of the person that are not adequately represented by traits. This article fleshes out the nature of these additional personality characteristics relevant to contextualized personality. I argue that, just as the study of personality in its generalized form has benefitted from recognition of three conceptual levels (viz. traits, goals and life narratives), so too would contextualized approaches to personality. Evidence of the predictive ability of context-specific goals and narratives is provided, as is discussion of the functional relations among variables at personality's three conceptual levels, and the interplay between contextualized and generalized self-representations. During this discussion, I argue for adoption of a relational meta-theory in the study of personality. Considerable gains can be made in understanding personhood by uniting appreciation of context with a multilevel conception of personality. Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology Key words: contextualized personality; social roles; personality traits; personal goals; life narratives; relationalism This article is meant to say something novel about two rather seasoned and largely accepted ideas regarding the nature of personality. The first of these ideas is that personality is manifest in different ways within each of the contexts and social roles in which we participate (Donahue, Robins, Roberts, & John, 1993). The second of these ideas, popularized by McAdams (1995McAdams ( , 2013, is that personality, in its generalized 1 form, is best represented by three distinct conceptual 'levels' (viz. traits, goals and life narratives). The 'something novel' here is an attempt to marry these two ideas that, more often than not, have passed each other within the realm of personality psychology like ships in the night.Researchers interested in assessing personality in its contextualized and role-bound form have almost invariably equated 'personality' and 'personality traits'-that is, when assessing the manner in which individuals construe their personality within specific contexts, these researchers have usually assessed only traits. This is not to suggest that other personality characteristics have been entirely ignored. McConnell (2011), for example, posited that contextualized personality may contain other aspects and characteristics in addition to traits. These 'other things' (p. 6), however, are only rarely specified and even less frequently described in any manner of detail. This, I believe, is a problem, as consideration of additional personality characteristics holds potential to offer insights into the natures of a broader array of psychological constructs, while also contributing to a more compl...

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Goals to change personality traits: Concurrent links between personality traits, daily behavior, and goals to change oneself

Cited by 176 publications

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Processes of Personality Development in Adulthood: The TESSERA Framework

Processes of Personality Development in Adulthood: The TESSERA Framework

Changing personality traits: Some considerations from psychotherapy process-outcome research for intervention efforts on intentional personality change.

Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits

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