The healthy personality from a basic trait perspective

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ID6206345
AutoresWiebke Bleidorn (0000-0003-3795-8143, University of California, Davis, autor de correspondencia), Christopher J Hopwood (0000-0001-6645-8645, University of California, Davis), Robert A Ackerman (0000-0002-7409-114X, The University of Texas at Dallas), Edward A Witt (0000-0002-5883-9701, University of Bremen), Christian Kandler (0000-0002-9175-235X, University of Bremen), Rainer Riemann (0000-0001-5805-4536, Bielefeld University), Douglas B Samuel (0000-0003-3592-1523, Purdue University West Lafayette), M Brent Donnellan (Michigan State University)
Año2020
Volumen118
Número6
Páginas1207-1225
Fecha de publicación2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/pspp0000231
PMID30614724
OpenAlexW2908223144
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas71

What basic personality traits characterize the psychologically healthy individual? The purpose of this article was to address this question by generating an expert-consensus model of the healthy person in the context of the 30 facets (and 5 domains) of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) system of traits. In a first set of studies, we found that the healthy personality can be described, with a high level of agreement, in terms of the 30 facets of the NEO-PI-R. High levels of openness to feelings, positive emotions, and straightforwardness, together with low levels on facets of neuroticism, were particularly indicative of healthy personality functioning. The expert-generated healthy personality profile was negatively correlated with profiles of pathological personality functioning and positively correlated with normative personality functioning. In a second set of studies, we matched the NEO-PI-R profiles of over 3,000 individuals from 7 different samples with the expert-generated healthy prototype to yield a healthy personality index. This index was characterized by good retest reliability and cross-rater agreement, high rank-order stability, and substantial heritability. Individuals with high scores on the healthy personality index were psychologically well-adjusted, had high self-esteem, good self-regulatory skills, an optimistic outlook on the world, and a clear and stable self-view. These individuals were low in aggression and meanness, unlikely to exploit others, and were relatively immune to stress and self-sufficient. We discuss the results in the light of their implications for both research and theory on healthy personality functioning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Personality · Perspective (graphical) · Trait · Trait theory · Mental Health Research Topics · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology