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Trait Theories
The Big Five Factors
Eysencks’ personality dimensions are too narrow and Cattell’s 16PF too large. So, a middle range (five factors) of traits does a better job of assessment.
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Evaluation
Walter Mischel (1968, 1984, 2004) points out that traits may be enduring, but the resulting behavior in various situations is different
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Trait theorists argue that behaviors from a situation may be different, but average behavior remains the same. Therefore, traits matter.
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Personality Dimensions
Hans and Sybil Eysenck suggested that personality could be reduced down to three polar dimensions, extraversion-introversion emotional stability-instability, and pychoticism
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An individual’s unique makeup of durable dispositions and consistent ways of behaving (traits) constitutes his or her personality.