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per·son·al·i·ty
/ ˌpərsəˈnalitē/
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n.
(pl. -ties)
1.
the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character:
she had a sunny personality that was very engaging|
fig.
each brand of gin has its own personality |
she has triumphed by sheer force of personality.
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qualities that make someone interesting or popular:
she's always had loads of personality.
2.
a famous person, esp. in entertainment or sports:
an official opening by a famous personality.
3. archaic
the quality or fact of being a person as distinct from a thing or animal.
4. (personalities) archaic
disparaging remarks about an individual.
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Personality: Theories and Applications
Magazine article from: Personnel Psychology; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Robert Hogan and Robert Smither. Personality: Theories and Applications. Cambridge...brief history of methods for studying personality? Open this book at page 10 and you...and Joyce Hogan published the Hogan personality inventory, passing through such events...
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Personality disorders may worsen with age.(Mental Health)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; PHILADELPHIA -- Personality disorders may appear to worsen with...of people age 65 or older having a personality disorder, Erlene Rosowsky, Psy...American Society on Aging. In general, personality disorders do not appear for the first...
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Personality Disorders Over Time: Implications for Psychotherapy
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Personality disorders have an early onset, and...adult life. Antisocial and borderline personality disorders tend to remit with age, but...show improvement. The chronicity of personality disorders is both a challenge and a...
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Personality types of therapeutic recreation students based on the MBTI
Magazine article from: Therapeutic Recreation Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Personality and vocational profile...helps to identify personalities of those in various...strongly related to personality" (p. 393). Personality and vocational profile...helps to identify personalities of those in various...
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Personality and Depression
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...implications of the association between personality and depression for the understanding...peer-reviewed manuscripts relevant to personality and depression was reviewed. Particular...and treatment implications. Results: Personality features in depressed samples reliably...
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Personality in Work Organizations
Magazine article from: Personnel Psychology; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...James and Michelle D. Mazerolle. Personality in Work Organizations. Thousand Oaks...there was virtually no interest in personality within academic I-O psychology. Few...major journals included consideration of personality variables. New theories of work motivation...
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Personality and the Fate of Organizations
Magazine article from: Personnel Psychology; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Robert Hogan. Personality and the Fate of Organizations. Mahwah...you have any interest whatsoever in personality, in organizations, in leadership...contributors to the empirical literature on personality and work behavior like Judge and...
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Personality tests for salesforce selection: worth a fresh look.
Magazine article from: Review of Business; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; What personality traits predict success in sales? This...finding quick, inexpensive and accurate personality tests to use in salesforce selection...related validity, they concluded that personality tests have in fact little to no value...
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Adolescent Personality Types and Subtypes and Their Psychosocial Adjustment
Magazine article from: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...have suggested the existence of three personality types: resilients, overcontrollers...subtypes within each of the three main personality types. Using cluster analysis on the Big Five personality self-descriptions of 3,284 Dutch...
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Personality differences between users of wine, beer and spirits in a community sample: the Winnipeg health and drinking survey *.
Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...hypothesis. Another hypothesis is that personality differences may account for some of...literature on the relationship between personality and alcohol use and abuse patterns is...a recent book, The Addiction Prone Personality (Barnes et al., 2000), in which...
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Personality Disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
...following: Schizoid personality disorder. Schizoid personalities are introverted...Paranoid personality disorder. Paranoid personalities interpret the...Schizotypal personality disorder. Schizotypal personalities tend to have...
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Personality
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Personality Personality most commonly refers to the psychological features that distinguish...is the psychological differences that fall under the umbrella of personality. These differences may be broad in nature, such as whether a person...
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personality
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
personality One of several concepts used by social...and to underlie behaviour. The term personality consequently refers to the individual...reflection). Like attitude , the notion of personality is primarily invoked in the attempt...
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Personality disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Personality disorders Definition Long-standing...display them or to others. Description Personality disorders constitute a separate diagnostic...by periods of illness and remission, personality disorders are generally ongoing. Often...
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Psychotic Part of the Personality
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...psychotic personalities" (1957...part of the personality arises from...the psychotic personality, and also to find the psychotic personality, which exists...psychotic personalities. International...
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