Personality Dynamics

The dynamics of personality deals with the motivational aspect of personality functioning. It embraces the basic motivational terms of personality including homeostasis, arousal, approach, and avoidance. Then, it focuses on biological dynamic models of instinct, drive, incentive, and theoretical conceptions in ethology and biosociology. The next subchapters or sections include the theories of dynamic traits (ergs, sentiments, and motivation strength components) and the dimensional models of personality dynamics (dynamic dimensions). The major conceptions of so-called push motivation, goals, values, and domains of motivation are discussed in the following subchapter. Finally, the chapter deals with the motivational aspects of situational factors.