Whole Trait Theory: An integrative approach to examining personality structure and process
By Eranda Jayawickreme, Corinne E Zachry, William Fleeson. Personality and Individual Differences, 2019
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Abstract Whole Trait Theory (WTT) was developed as an integrative model of traits that incorporates mechanisms of differential reaction to situations. Providing an explanatory account to the Big 5 (defined in terms of density distributions of personality states) creates two parts to traits, an explanatory part and a descriptive part. WTT proposes that the explanatory side of traits consists of social-cognitive mechanisms. These two parts of traits should be recognized as distinct entities that are nevertheless joined into whole traits. This review provides an overview of WTT, discusses new directions for considering WTT in personality development, the possible application of WTT to non-Big 5 traits, and possibilities for interventions based on insights from WTT.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures (2020, methodology): “First, the measure could be put to use in a purely scientific context, that is, for the examination and testing of personality theories, such as hypotheses derived from whole trait theory (Fleeson & Jayawickreme, 2015; Jayawickreme et al., 2019) or the TESSERA framework (Wrzus & Roberts, 2017).”