PSYC 217 Lecture : Week 3 Lecture - 2
Document Summary
Traits & trait taxonomies; coherence, stability, and change over time. Developed measurement scales to assess personality traits, originally based on the lexical approach. Primarily concerned with interpersonal traits; interactions between people involving social exchanges. Social exchange is de ned by 2 resources: love (emotional component; communion) & status (social component; agency) These dimensions de ne axes on the wiggins circumplex. 3 types of relationships among each trait and all others: adjacency: how close together 2 traits are, bipolarity: located at opposite ends; negatively correlated, orthogonality: perpendicular traits are unrelated. Limitation: interpersonal map is limited to two dimensions - other traits may have important interpersonal consequences. Leading personality taxonomy today; proposed 5 broad factors (based on lexical and statistical approaches): extraversion (surgency) Thursday, september 22, 2016: neuroticism (emotional stability, conscientiousness (dependability, agreeableness, openness to experience (openness/intellect, culture) - most debated cross- culturally. Ffm: extraversion: gregariousness, activity level, assertiveness, warmth, excitement seeking, positive emotions. Negative emotions, quick to anger, insecure, worrisome.
