The Social Consequences of Personality: Six Suggestions for Future Research
The Social Consequences of Personality: Six Suggestions for Future Research
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DOI：
10.1002/per.1998
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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5.9
通讯作者：
Vazire, Simine
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作者：
Back, Mitja D.;Vazire, Simine
从历史上看，人格心理学并不关注社会领域，社会心理学也大多忽视了个体差异的影响。然而，这种情况在过去二十年中开始发生变化。近年来，关于人格的社会后果的创造性研究项目激增。在本文中，我们提供了一个（高度主观的）关于人格的社会后果的研究应该如何向前推进的观点。我们注意到，现有的文献主要集中在：特质（以牺牲其他人格特征为代价），一组狭窄的社会结果（例如浪漫关系满意度）和人格对自己的结果的影响（而不是采取二元/人际关系的角度）。此外，很少有人注意到可能解释人格与社会结果之间联系的复杂动态过程。在此基础上，我们对未来人格的社会后果研究提出了六点建议：（1）广泛考察人格变量，整合跨领域的研究结果;（2）对社会后果采取更广泛、更综合的观点，包括不同的关系类型、阶段和过渡;（3）从不同的社会角度分析人格对社会结果的影响（4）寻找解释人格与社会结果之间联系的过程;（5）收集丰富的、多方法的、纵向的、大样本的行为数据集;（6）仔细评估人格对社会结果的影响。我们邀请研究人员采用一种更具协作性和更慢的科学方法来回答有关人格的社会后果的许多开放性问题。版权所有（c）2015欧洲人格心理学协会
Historically, personality psychology has not focused on the social realm, and social psychology has mostly neglected the influence of individual differences. This has, however, begun to change in the past two decades. Recent years have brought an explosion in creative research programmes on the social consequences of personality. In this paper, we offer a (highly subjective) view on how research on the social consequences of personality should move forward. We note that the existing literature is focused heavily on: traits (at the expense of other personality characteristics), a narrow set of social outcomes (e.g. romantic relationship satisfaction) and effects of personality on one's own outcomes (rather than taking a dyadic/interpersonal perspective). In addition, little attention has been paid to the complex dynamic processes that might account for the links between personality and social outcomes. Based on this, we outline six suggestions for future research on the social consequences of personality: (1) examine a wide range of personality variables and integrate findings across domains; (2) take a broader and more integrative view on social outcomes, including different relationship types, phases and transitions; (3) analyse personality effects on social outcomes from different social perspectives (e.g. self, other and dyad); (4) search for processes that explain the associations between personality and social outcomes; (5) collect rich, multi-method, longitudinal, behavioural datasets with large samples and (6) carefully evaluate the implications of personality effects on social outcomes. We invite researchers to embrace a more collaborative and slower scientific approach to answer the many open questions about the social consequences of personality. Copyright (c) 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology