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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042.56.4.271

Zusammenfassung. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Persönlichkeitspsychologie eine zur Zeit sehr dynamische sowie interdisziplinär stark vernetzte Teildisziplin der Psychologie ist. Dies geschieht exemplarisch anhand von sechs Forschungsfeldern: (a) Entwicklung statistischer und mathematischer Methoden (z.B. Strukturgleichungsmodelle, Mischverteilungsmodelle), welche an individuellen Unterschieden ansetzen und deren Analyse optimieren; (b) Implizite Assoziationstests als Ergänzung zu Selbstberichten im Rahmen der Persönlichkeitsmessung; (c) Forschungen zu den kognitiven und neuronalen Quellen individueller Unterschiede in der Intelligenz; (d) Forschungen zu biologischen Einflussfaktoren auf Temperamentsmerkmale; (e) quantitative und molekulare Verhaltensgenetik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehung zwischen normaler Variation und psychischen Störungen; und (f) Vorhersage von Ausbildungs- und Berufserfolg.


Personality psychology: Current state and future prospects

Abstract. It is shown that Personality Psychology is an interdisciplinary and currently highly dynamic field of psychology. This is illustrated exemplarily for six fields of research: (a) development of statistical and mathematical methods (e.g., structural equation and mixture distribution models) that are based on individual differences and optimize their analysis; (b) Implicit Association Tests as a complement to self-reports as measures of personality; (c) research on the cognitive and neural bases of individual differences in intelligence; (d) research on biological influences on temperament; (e) quantitative and molecular behavior genetics with special emphasis on the relation between normal variation and psychological disorders; and (f) prediction of academic and occupational success.

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