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A functional perspective on personality

Marco Perugini, Giulio Costantini, Sean Joseph Hughes (UGent) and Jan De Houwer (UGent)
(2016) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. 51(1). p.33-39
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Personality psychology has made enormous progresses over the years by accumulating empirical evidence on how patterns of stable individual differences in behaviours can be clustered systematically at different levels of abstraction (i.e. traits and facets) and how they can predict important consequential outcomes. At the same time, functionally orientated researchers have accumulated a vast body of knowledge on environment-behaviour relations and the underlying behavioural principles, that is, abstract descriptions of the way in which behaviour is a function of elements in the past and present environment. We explore a functional perspective on personality that attempts to bridge the two domains and to exploit the best of both worlds. From this functional perspective, personality refers to the impact of the individual on different types of environment-behaviour relations as well as on the way other factors moderate those relations. We discuss the potential of this functional perspective on personality to organise existing scientific knowledge and inspire future research.
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SITUATIONS, TRAIT, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIORS, FRAMEWORK, MODEL, Personality, Traits, Functional, Behaviour, Environment

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Perugini, Marco, et al. “A Functional Perspective on Personality.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 51, no. 1, 2016, pp. 33–39, doi:10.1002/ijop.12175.
APA
Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Hughes, S. J., & De Houwer, J. (2016). A functional perspective on personality. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 51(1), 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12175
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Perugini, Marco, Giulio Costantini, Sean Joseph Hughes, and Jan De Houwer. 2016. “A Functional Perspective on Personality.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 51 (1): 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12175.
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Perugini, Marco, Giulio Costantini, Sean Joseph Hughes, and Jan De Houwer. 2016. “A Functional Perspective on Personality.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 51 (1): 33–39. doi:10.1002/ijop.12175.
Vancouver
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Perugini M, Costantini G, Hughes SJ, De Houwer J. A functional perspective on personality. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. 2016;51(1):33–9.
IEEE
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M. Perugini, G. Costantini, S. J. Hughes, and J. De Houwer, “A functional perspective on personality,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 33–39, 2016.
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