Module 46: humanistic theories, and trait theories

Humanistic theories

Emphasize the way people strive for self determination and self realization. Theories that view personality with the focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.

Hierarchy of needs

Maslow if our physiological needs are met, we become concerned with our personal safety. Five Levels of human needs beginning with physiological needs often visualized as a pyramid with basic needs, providing the foundation supporting higher level needs

Maslow

Self actualization

Having achieve self-esteem, we ultimately seek self actualization the process of fulfilling. Our potential arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met.

Maslow

Self transcendence

The striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self

maslow

He developed his ideas by studying healthy, creative people rather than clinical cases of troubled people people such as Abraham Lincoln

Unconditional positive regard

A caring, accepting, and non-judgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self awareness and self acceptance

Self-concept

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, and answer to the question who am I?

Trait

Personality inventory

A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge wide range of feelings and behaviors used to assess selected personality traits

Self report

Longer than personality, inventories, a method of recording participants descriptions of their personality traits, often using surveys, questionnaires, or test

Minnesota multi personality inventory MMPI

The classic personal inventory, the most widely research and clinically used of all personality test originally developed to identify emotional disorders and it’s still considered most appropriate use, this is used for many other screening purposes

Empirically derived test

Such as the MMPI created by selecting from a pool of items that those discriminate between groups

Big five factors

Researchers identify five factors, openness, consciousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism That describe personality also known as the five factor model