Self, Motivation, and Virtue or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deep Integration
Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Self, Motivation, and Virtue Project (Snow & Narvaez, 2015) was developed “to open avenues of inquiry into virtue using the framework of the ‘self,’ instead of ‘personality,’ to require deep and ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration, and to stimulate methodological innovation into the study of virtue.” But what does this mean to use a “framework of self” instead of “personality?” What do we mean by “self” and “personality”? In this chapter we provide a conceptual review and integration of self and personality, as well as identity, motivation, virtue, and well-being. In clarifying these different concepts, we demonstrate that the concept of personality--when conceptualized as extending beyond personality traits--provides the broadest, most inclusive framework for understanding self, identity, motivation, virtue, as well as all other traits and characteristic adaptations.
Authors: Moin Syed, Colin G. DeYoung, Valerie Tiberius
Institution: University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4230567437