Personality: A Systems Approach

The Rationale for a New Direction

Examining Personality * Personality's Parts

* Personality Organization * Personality Development
Textbooks
The Rationale for this Textbook What is a Fieldwide-Framework?
What is the Systems Framework? The Framework in the Classroom
Personality Psychology -- An On-Line Resource. (personality organized by the Systems Framework Approach) A Vision for Our Field (an early version of the book's Instructor's Preface)
Reprints on the Systems Framework

Reprints on the System Framework

Please note: The latest, best summary of the framework is in the American Psychologist (see the first link below).

Reprints On the Systems Framework
General Statements of the Framework
A Tale of Two Visions: Can a New View of Personality Help Integrate Psychology? (2005) from the American Psychologist click here
A Systems Framework for the Field of Personality Psychology (1998) from Psychological Inquiry click here
A Systems-Topics Alternative (1994) from Dialogue click here
A Systems-Topics Framework for the study of personality (1994) from Imagination, Cognition, and Personality click here
Identifying the System and Its Data
The Systems-Topics Framework and the Structural Arrangement of Systems Within and Around Personality (1995) from the Journal of Personality click here
A Classification System for the Data of Personality Psychology and Adjoining Fields (2004) from the Review of General Psychology click here
Personality's Parts and Structural Organization
The Systems-Topics Framework and the Structural Arrangement of Systems Within and Around Personality (1995) from the Journal of Personality click here
A Framework for the Classification of Personality Components (1995) from the Review of General Psychology click here
Conation, Affect, and Cognition in Personality (1997) n/a
Primary Divisions of Personality and their Scientific Contributions: From the Trilogy-of-Mind to the Systesm Set (2001) from the Theory of Social Behavior click here
Personality Dynamics and Development
The current classification approach is best represented by Chapters 8 through 12 in the 3rd edition of the textbook.