Personality is the relatively enduring, organized pattern of thoughts, emotions, motivations, and behaviors that characterizes an individual and shapes how that person perceives and responds to the world. Contemporary trait models describe personality along broad dimensions, while clinical and psychodynamic perspect…
Personality is the relatively enduring, organized pattern of thoughts, emotions, motivations, and behaviors that characterizes an individual and shapes how that person perceives and responds to the world. Contemporary trait models describe personality along broad dimensions, while clinical and psychodynamic perspectives emphasize identity, self-concept, defense mechanisms, and the developmental formation of the self. Personality is studied as a predictor of psychological well-being and vulnerability: stable dispositions interact with stress, family environment, and life events to influence outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. When patterns of inner experience and behavior become rigid, pervasive, and maladaptive, they may meet criteria for personality disorders, which are typically chronic and impair social, occupational, and interpersonal functioning. Research relevant to this topic addresses how personality and family interaction shape mental health in student and clinical populations, the role of autobiographical memory and mental functions in adolescent identity formation and the prevention of identity diffusion, self-monitoring and adaptive behavior change, dissociative phenomena such as amnesia, and psychotherapeutic approaches including cognitive-analytic and short-term dynamic therapy. The journal publishes peer-reviewed work on personality, its assessment, its developmental and clinical correlates, and the therapeutic strategies that address personality-related distress.
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