PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Big Five Personality Traits, Midlife Crisis, Multilevel Model

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Personality in its broadest sense: the behaviors, traits, emotions, and ideas about the self that make up each unique individual. William james and sigmund freud believed that personality was set before. Carl jung asserted that personality was shaped throughout our lives, aspects of personality come and go as people"s experiences and life issues change. Mcadam"s three parallel levels of personality structure and function, each level contains a wide range of personality constructs: Personal concerns: consist of things that are important to people, their goals, and their major concerns in life, usually described in motivational, developments, strategic terms, reflect the stage of life a person is in at the time. Life narrative: consists of the aspects of personality that pull everything together, the integrative aspects that give a person an identity or sense of self, the creation of an identity is the goal.

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