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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Cultural Psychology

Background:

  • An article by Giordano (2018) proposed understanding individual personality through its processes rather than structures.
  • Commentaries by Kostromina and Grishina (2018) and Mironenko (2018) raised questions regarding this process-focused approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify points made in Giordano's (2018) original article on personality processes.
  • To introduce the concept of a personality process-structure duality.
  • To reaffirm the value of a process-centric approach for studying dynamic personality properties.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis and theoretical argumentation.
  • Response to scholarly commentaries.
  • Elaboration of a process-centric framework for personality.

Main Results:

  • The authors clarify their position on the process-centric approach to personality.
  • A personality process-structure duality is described, dependent on research methodology.
  • The dynamic and emergent properties of personality are best understood through processes.

Conclusions:

  • A process-centric approach is superior for understanding the dynamic and emergent properties of individual personality.
  • Structural thinking in personality research should be minimized when focusing on dynamic aspects.
  • The conceptualization of personality should acknowledge a duality between process and structure based on research methods.