The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field

Personality psychology has long focused on structural trait models, but it can also offer a rich understanding of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning individual differences or entire persons. The field personality which works towards such an understanding, experienced renaissance in last two decades. This review article seeks to act as primer that field. It covers its historical roots, summarizes current research strands – along with their theoretical backbones methodologies accessible way, sketches some considerations for future. In doing so, we introduce relevant concepts, give overview different topics phenomena subsumed under broad umbrella term ‘dynamics’, highlight interdisciplinarity well applied relevance We hope this serve useful scholars within outside who are interested dynamic nature human behaviour experience.