personality trait

  • 1personality trait — personality characteristic, one of the qualities which characterizes the individual …

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  • 2personality trait — a consistent pattern of acting, feeling, and thinking that occurs across a variety of situations and endures, and so characterizes a person …

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  • 3Adroitness (personality trait) — Social Adroitness is a personality trait measured in the Jackson Personality Inventory [Jackson, 1976. D.N. Jackson , Jackson Personality Inventory manual. , Research Psychologists Press, Port Huron, MI (1976).] .It assesses the ability to… …

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  • 4Personality genetics — is a scientific field that examines the relation between personalitys and genetics.Studies investigate the link by genetic association studies where subjects are genotyped and their personality is quantified with a personality test.Among the… …

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  • 5personality — /perr seuh nal i tee/, n., pl. personalities. 1. the visible aspect of one s character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality. 2. a person as an embodiment of a collection of qualities: He is a curious personality. 3. Psychol. a.… …

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  • 6Trait theory — In psychology, Trait theory is a major approach to the study of human personality. Trait theorists are primarily interested in the measurement of traits , which can be defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. [Saul Kassin,… …

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  • 7Personality type — The concept of personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of people. Personality types can be distinguished from personality traits, which come in different levels or degrees. According to type theories, for… …

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  • 8Personality Disorders —    Even though upsetting behavior is as old as the human condition, systematic attention to disorders of the personality appears relatively late in the development of psychiatry. On the whole, the asylum generation of psychiatrists had little to… …

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  • 9Personality psychology — studies personality based on theories of individual differences. One emphasis in this area is to construct a coherent picture of a person and his or her major psychological processes (Bradberry, 2007). Another emphasis views personality as the… …

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  • 10Personality disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F60 ICD 9 301.9 …

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