A model for personality at three levels

By William Revelle, David M. Condon. 2015

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People differ. How and why they differ are the fundamental questions for personality psychologists. In this article we address three levels at which people differ: within individuals, between individuals, and between groups of individuals. A dynamic model of personality is considered where traits are seen as rates of change in states in response to environmental cues. Within individuals, motivational and behavioral states show inertial properties and lead to an analysis of rates of change and latencies of behavior. Between individuals, the analysis is one of frequency and duration of choices. When individuals self select into groups reflecting shared interests and abilities, the structure of these group differences reflects the consequences of the self selection. Examples of the dynamic model are given for each level of analysis.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures (2020, background): “…scores) also holds within person or if, as suggested, different tendencies to behave and thus actions (i.e. personality states) inhibit each other (Revelle & Condon, 2015), which must necessarily mean that personality states at the within-person level could not be independent from each other.”
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020, methodology): “Examples of the use of computational models in personality science include Revelle and Condon's (2015) dynamics of action model, 13 Besides the ‘how’ part, there may also be a ‘why’ part of an explanation, referring to the function (outcome) of the phenomenon in relation to a broader phenomenon…”