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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Personality Science
  • Systems Theory

Background:

  • Humans strive for psychological equilibrium amidst environmental changes.
  • Systems theories propose generalized personality processes regulate situational reactivity for stability.
  • Higher-order traits of general personality function (Stability) and dysfunction (general personality pathology; GPP) exist, but their link to reactivity is theoretical.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically test if general personality function and pathology capture individual differences in reactivity.
  • To examine how general personality functioning manifests in everyday life.

Main Methods:

  • Ambulatory assessment protocol administered to two large samples (N=342 and N=17,761 observations).
  • Analysis focused on identifying a general factor of reactivity across major life domains.

Main Results:

  • A general factor reflecting reactivity across major functioning domains was identified.
  • This general reactivity was found to be strongly associated with both Stability and general personality pathology (GPP).

Conclusions:

  • Findings support systems theories by demonstrating a general factor of reactivity linked to personality functioning.
  • Results offer insights into fundamental human adaptation processes and inform empirical models of personality.