Structure of Personality

Structural modeling is a basic task of every science including psychology. Thus, the hierarchical structural models appear in virtually all important psychological domains including personality and cognitive abilities. Many different structural paradigms appeared in the history of psychology: The first, the typological paradigm was in the modern psychology replaced by the dimensional paradigm, where all contemporary structural models of personality can be found, the models of Eysenck and Cattell, the Big Five Model, and the most recent, the pyramid model of personality.