Concept information
Preferred term
personality
Definition
- This denotes any individual's characteristic ways of behaving. The personality is inferred from behaviour, which it is held to cause. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Personality]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- achievement motivation
- agreeableness
- androgyny
- anger
- assertiveness
- attachment styles
- attribution theory
- authoritarianism
- authoritarian personality
- babyfaceness
- central traits versus peripheral traits
- character
- competitiveness
- conformity
- control motivation
- creativity
- curiosity
- defensive pessimism
- dependency (psychology)
- dishonesty
- ego
- emotional immaturity
- emotional maturity
- expertise
- extraversion
- five-factor model of personality
- gender differences
- genetic influences on social behavior
- hardiness
- hostile masculinity syndrome
- human motivation
- human personality
- identity
- identity status
- implicit personality theory
- independence
- individual differences
- individuality
- intelligence
- introversion
- learning styles
- Machiavellianism
- masculinity/femininity
- metatraits
- morals
- narcissism
- narcissistic entitlement
- need for affiliation
- need for closure
- need for cognition
- need for power
- negativism
- neuroticism
- non conformity
- personal identity
- personalities and behavior patterns, type A and type B
- personality and social behavior
- personality development
- power motive
- rejection sensitivity
- self-actualization
- self-complexity
- self-concept
- self-concept clarity
- self-confidence
- self-control
- self-control measures
- self-esteem stability
- self-monitoring
- sensation seeking
- sex drive
- sex roles
- shyness
- social desirability bias
- talent
- temperament
- testosterone
- Thematic Apperception Test
- tolerance
- traits
- uniqueness
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