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STUDIES IN PERSONALITY: A bio‐psychological and experimental approach to problems of human adaptation in modern society
Author(s) -
Ramfalk Carl W.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1963.tb01325.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , personality , adaptation (eye) , cognition , cognitive psychology , juvenile delinquency , big five personality traits , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience
(a) Four hypothetical constructs of a theory of personality are defined within a biological frame of reference, (b) Three of the constructs are based on an experimental situation, (i) in which objective observations are made, and (ii) a scaling procedure utilized, which keeps cognitive factors constant. (c) Predictions concerning the genesis of normal or deviating development of the male personality are deduced and confirmed; i.e. predictions related to the genesis of ‘neuroticism’, ‘delinquency’, and their correlatives ‘alcoholism’ and ‘accident‐proneness’.