The field of personality.

Āllport, Gordon W.; Vernon, Philip E.

doi:10.1037/h0072589

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“…Allport, the well-known personality trait theorist of the 20th century, argued that the study of character belonged in the field of philosophy and banned the term character from academic discourse on personality (Allport & Vernon, 1930;Nicholson, 1998). Traits, however, were considered to be objective qualities without any moral significance.…”

Section: Psychological Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Biological contributions to well-being: The relationships amongst temperament, character strengths and resilience

2010

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Orientation: Positive psychology emphasises the nurturing of personal strengths, yet little research to date has investigated the role of nature in psychological wellness.Research purpose: The study aimed to address this dearth by investigating the relationship between temperament, with its biological roots, and psychological well-being and also to ascertain whether character strengths and resilience can be predicted by certain temperament traits.Motivation for the study: Although the biological bases of mental illness have been researched extensively in past studies, there is very little research regarding the biological bases of psychological wellness.Research design, approach and method: This quantitative study selected a sample of 620 participants and applied four measuring instruments, namely the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire, the Values in Action – Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) , the Sense of Coherence scale and the Resilience scale to measure temperament and well-being. Correlations and logistic regression analyses were used to analyse the data.Main findings: There are relationships between certain biologically based temperament traits and the psychological constructs of character strengths and resilience. Logistic regression models, using temperament as the independent variable, correctly predicted high and low scores on the Sense of Coherence scale, the Resilience scale and the (VIA-IS) with 64% – 76.1% accuracy.Pratical/managerial implications: Understanding the physiological substrates of flourishing and being able to predict strengths based on temperament promise advances in applying positive psychology concepts.Contribution/value-add: Values, ethics, character strengths, virtues and resilience are universal and may be entrenched in biology, according to some theorists. This has not been researched much, however. The current study addressed this dearth.How to cite this article: Hutchinson, A.K., Stuart, A.D., & Pretorius, H.G. (2010). Biological contributions to well-being: The relationships amongst temperament, character strengths and resilience. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology/SA Tydskrif vir Bedryfsielkunde, 36(2), Art. #844, 10 pages, DOI: 10.4102/sajip.v36i2.844

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Section: Psychological Well-beingmentioning

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2010

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“…For example, in 1930 the Psychological Bulletin announced Gordon Allport's appointment to the Harvard faculty, describing it as "designed to lead to the development of courses and research in social psychology" ("Notes and News," 1930, p. 496). Reviews of the personality literature appeared regularly in the Psychological Bulletin in issues devoted to social psychology (e.g., G. W. Allport, 1927;G. Another example of this view is Fearing and Fearing's (1931) survey of social psychology courses in American colleges and universities; the authors listed "Psychology of Personality" as one of several "popular" titles of social psychology courses (p. 808).…”

Section: Personality Emergent and Embedded: The Persisting Connectionmentioning

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“…Having accepted Carl 31. Allport and Vernon (1930) wrote more positively of "another variety of social definition" that "stresses the distinctiveness of the person" (p. 685). 32.…”

Section: How Social Is Personality? Gordon Allport and The Separationmentioning

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How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

Barenbaum

2000

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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“…The distribution of index numbers for the good, poor, and average groups is shown in Table 4.137. 4. 131 Interpretation of the Results.…”

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Personality and Teaching Success

Lamke

1951

The Journal of Experimental Education

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The field of personality.

Cited by 56 publications

References 177 publications

Biological contributions to well-being: The relationships amongst temperament, character strengths and resilience

Biological contributions to well-being: The relationships amongst temperament, character strengths and resilience

How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

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