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PERSONALITY AND DISORDER.

PERSINALITY refers to a person’s general style of interacting with the world, especially with other people. A basic assumption of the personality concept is that people do differ from one another in their styles of behavior, in ways they are at least relatively consistent across time and place


TRAITSà is the most central concept in personality psychology. And it is a relatively stable predisposition to behave in a certain manner

¨ Traits are considered to be part of a person not part of the environment.
¨ Traits are lasting
¨ There trait theories focus on describing individual differences

TRAIT THEORIESà The goal of these trait theories is to specify a manageable set of distinct personality dimensions that can be used to summarize the fundamental psychological difference among humans.

HIERACHICALL ORGANIZED TRAITS à

¨ A basic assumption underlying all trait theories are that behavior and traits are linked toget...