Personality Theories

Our knowledge of personality is very extensive. It is understandable that we try to substantiate this knowledge in an artistic way. This means that we have to connect it and make sense of it with explanations. Such explanations are called models or theories. This chapter is devoted to the presentation of the most important psychological models and theories of personality. There are more of them. We divide them into several groups in which they are discussed. Within these groups you will find dispositional theories and models, psychoanalytic models and theories, behavioral-social-cognitive models and theories, humanistic models and theories, self-concept models and theories, and bio-evolutionary models and theories.