TY - JOUR
T1 - The future of person-situation integration in the interface between traits and goals
T2 - A bottom-up framework
AU - Heller, Daniel
AU - Perunovic, Wei Qi Elaine
AU - Reichman, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the Israel Science Foundation and European Union Marie Currie International Reintegration Grant to the first author, and the University of New Brunswick’s Start-up Funds to the second author. We thank Penny Deeth, Jennifer Komar, Shawn Komar, and Justin Mullin for their assistance with this research.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - In this paper, we theorize a bottom-up model of personality and delineate ways in which personality traits can develop and change from the accumulation of daily situations and behaviors over time. We posit that social roles, which represent important classes of situations, could elicit different types of short-term goals. We then argue that these goals can serve as psychological components of situations, thus exerting an influence on personality states, which aggregated over the long-term can shape broad personality traits. We discuss both the long-term processes involved in the transformation of personality traits as a function of roles, as well as the micro-level processes that occur in people's daily lives, linking social roles, short-term goals, and personality states. Finally, we discuss future directions extending the scope of our model.
AB - In this paper, we theorize a bottom-up model of personality and delineate ways in which personality traits can develop and change from the accumulation of daily situations and behaviors over time. We posit that social roles, which represent important classes of situations, could elicit different types of short-term goals. We then argue that these goals can serve as psychological components of situations, thus exerting an influence on personality states, which aggregated over the long-term can shape broad personality traits. We discuss both the long-term processes involved in the transformation of personality traits as a function of roles, as well as the micro-level processes that occur in people's daily lives, linking social roles, short-term goals, and personality states. Finally, we discuss future directions extending the scope of our model.
KW - Bottom-up model
KW - Contextualized personality
KW - Personality states
KW - Social roles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=64049108073&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.011
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AN - SCOPUS:64049108073
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 43
SP - 171
EP - 178
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 2
ER -