PSY322H1 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 textbook notes.docx
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Dispositional traits aspects of personality that are consistent across different o contexts and can be compared across a group along a continuum. Personal concerns reflects the stage of life a person is in; things that are important o to ppl, their goals, and their major concerns in life. Life narrative aspects of personality that pull everything together ; give a persona an o identity or sense of self o. Traits are based on comparisons, there are no absolute quantitative standards. Qualities or behaviours making up a particular trait must be distinctive enough to avoid o confusion o. Trait theories assume little change in personality across adulthood ( personality is stable after age 30 ) 5 factor model (costa & mccrae) - consists of 5 independent dimensions of personality: neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness. Neuroticism emotions of anger and fear; high in trait anxiety; self-consciousness o and depression; impulsiveness and vulnerability.