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Commentary on the Special Issue: Religion in the Psychology of Personality
Author(s) -
Vande Kemp Hendrika
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00087
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , personality theory , affection , personality development , social psychology , personality psychology , psychological theory , embeddedness , theoretical psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , cognitive psychology , sociology , social science , philosophy
The author comments on the special issue on religion in the psychology of personality. She focuses her discussion on the following topics: the historical tripartite theory of cognition‐affection‐conation; ways that family psychology and theories of language clarify the “problem” of adherence to “false realities”; the multidimensionality of personality and religion and their cultural embeddedness as illuminated in clinical assessment by way of contextual family theory (Boszormenyi‐Nagy & Krasner, 1986) and the Kantor and Lehr (1975) systems theory; the role of the investigator’s personality in theory and research about personality and religion; the one‐sided emphasis on the empirical tradition in the psychology of religion; and the omission of the personalist tradition.