What are psychological constructs? On the nature and statistical modelling of emotions, intelligence, personality traits and mental disorders

EI Fried - Health psychology review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… : what are psychological constructs (PCs) such as cognitions, emotions, attitudes, personality
… For this overview, I use an inclusive definition of the term ‘psychological construct’ that also …

[PDF][PDF] Linking traits and personal constructs: An exploratory study throughout levels of personality

JG Martínez, FJ Cano-García… - Roczniki …, 2019 - bibliotekanauki.pl
PERSONALITY This article presents a preliminary study of links between personal constructs
and traits… The conceptual framework for this study is the domains of personality model …

The big five personality traits: psychological entities or statistical constructs?

S Franić, D Borsboom, CV Dolan, DI Boomsma - Behavior genetics, 2014 - Springer
The present study employed multivariate genetic item-level analyses to examine the ontology
and the genetic and environmental etiology of the Big Five personality dimensions, as …

Patterns of continuity: a dynamic model for conceptualizing the stability of individual differences in psychological constructs across the life course.

RC Fraley, BW Roberts - Psychological review, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
… one area of psychological inquiry. Although we focus on the continuity of personality traits,
it … could be reconstructed for any kind of psychological construct for which people vary (eg, …

Folk concepts, natural language, and psychological constructs: The California Psychological Inventory and the five‐factor model

RR McCrae, PT Costa Jr, RL Piedmont - Journal of Personality, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… folk concepts to psychological constructs are discussed. Some personality constructs—such …
do not necessarily link the scales to familiar psychological constructs. One way to deal with …

Trait explanations in personality psychology

RR McCrae, PT Costa Jr - European Journal of Personality, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Personality traits are hypothetical psychological constructs, and might in principle be
found in Martians with an entirely different sort of nervous system (cf. McDonough, 199 1). …

Inspiration as a psychological construct.

TM Thrash, AJ Elliot - Journal of personality and social psychology, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
construct by examining trait inspiration. In Study 4, we assess inspiration and other constructs
both as traits … Our aims are as follows: to demonstrate that IS trait reports predict individuals…

Aggression, and some related psychological constructs (anger, hostility, and impulsivity) Some comments from a research project

JM Ramirez, JM Andreu - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
… relationships of personality traits and other … psychological, neuropsychological,
electrophysiological, psychopathological), but in our present paper we will focus on personality

[图书][B] Personality traits

G Matthews, IJ Deary, MC Whiteman - 2003 - books.google.com
… domain, and where there are replicable, significant and objective real-life outcomes of traits
trait theories of personality; compared with other psychological constructs we think that trait

Statisticism in personality psychologists' use of trait constructs: What is it? How was it contracted? Is there a cure?

JT Lamiell - New Ideas in Psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
… statistical properties of trait constructs can enhance the power and scope of scientific
psychology’s … well beyond the narrower domain of personality investigators’ use of trait constructs. …