The integrative challenge in personality science: Personal projects as units of analysis |
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| Institution: | 1. Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics & Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands;2. Department of Philosophy, McIntosh Humanities Building 917, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-2408, USA;1. Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;2. Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;3. Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;4. Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, KU Leuven, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Personality science pursues the rather paradoxical project of specializing in comprehensiveness. But with rapid increases in the breadth and depth of research in the field, the need for integration poses a clear challenge. The choice of unit of analysis is critical to this challenge. Personal projects, extended sets of personally salient action in context, are one example of integrative units of analysis. I review a social ecological framework for personality in which personal projects are pivotal units. I then examine twelve methodological criteria that have guided the development of research on personal projects and that stand in contrast to more traditional ways of assessing personality. I conclude by answering critical comments from a not totally hypothetical Reviewer C. |
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| Keywords: | Personal Projects Analysis Integrative units of analysis Social ecology |
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