Personality Psychology

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Personality Psychology.

• Biospheric model of personality — Angyal’s holistic personality model treating person and environment as one organized biosphere with subject and object poles and competing tendencies toward autonomy and homonomy.
• Narrative identity — A theory of personal identity in which people integrate reconstructed past, interpreted present and imagined future into an evolving life story that supplies unity and purpose.
• Perfectionism (psychology) — A multidimensional personality characteristic involving very high standards, critical self-evaluation and concern over mistakes or others' evaluations.
• Psychoticism — The broad personality dimension in Eysenck’s PEN model combining tough-mindedness, impulsivity, aggression, coldness and nonconformity.