Personality As An Affect-processing System: Toward An Integrative Theory

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Intention of This Book......Page 18
Phenomena Stimulating the Theory......Page 19
Two Kinds of Psychological Variables......Page 31
Regarding "Risk" and "Protective" Factors......Page 36
What Shall We Mean by Resilience?......Page 37
How Should the Term, "Self," Be Used?......Page 43
The Coherency of Personality......Page 45
Orienting Attitudes......Page 49
The Emphasis on System Properties......Page 50
The Emphasis on Contemporaneity......Page 55
The Emphasis on "Metapsychological" Constructs......Page 57
The Emphasis on Characterizing Environmental Contexts......Page 59
The Emphasis on Integrating Drives With Attentional Influences......Page 66
The Emphasis on Conceptualizing Personality Psychologically Rather Than Biologically......Page 70
Plan of Presentation of the Present Formulation......Page 73
A Capsule Statement of the Argument......Page 74
Perceptualization as a "Natural" State of the Individual......Page 75
Anxiety as the Sensed Indicator of System Instability......Page 78
Anxiety-Reduction as a Preemptive Basis for Behavior......Page 81
The Two Basic Causes of Anxiety......Page 83
A First Discussion of Drive......Page 85
A First Discussion of Percept......Page 88
Insufficient Reduction of Drive as a Cause of Anxiety Arousal......Page 92
Insufficient Processing of Percepts as a Cause of Anxiety Arousal......Page 94
The Two Basic Modes of Anxiety-Reduction......Page 96
Recapitulation of Where We Are Now......Page 97
The Necessity of Structural Variables......Page 100
The Composition of Drive......Page 101
The Concept of Tension......Page 102
The Concept of the Control Apparatus......Page 104
7 Percept, Environment, and Perceptualizing......Page 114
The Influences of Stimuli......Page 115
The Concept of Autochthonous Assimilability......Page 116
The Concept of Percept Assimilability......Page 123
The Concept of the Perceptualizing Apparatus......Page 124
8 Closing the Ring......Page 133
The Correspondence Between Perceptualizing and Control Apparatuses......Page 134
The Cumulativeness of Tension and Drives, of AA, and Percepts......Page 135
The Dynamic Relations Between the Control and Perceptual Apparatuses......Page 136
Posited Relations Between AA, Drive Level, and the Perceptual Apparatus......Page 137
Posited Relations Between Tension, PA, and the Control Apparatus......Page 138
Dynamic Implications of Perceptual and Control Apparatus Interactions......Page 139
Evolution and Differentiation, Permeability, and Resilience......Page 140
A Condensed Statement of the Present Personality System......Page 141
Analog Models Versus Digital Models of Personality Functioning......Page 142
Symmetry in Theory Construction......Page 144
Regarding the Revealing of Personality Processes......Page 145
Regarding the Role of Anxiety......Page 146
Regarding the Broad Conceptual Property of Resiliency......Page 147
Regarding the Broad Conceptual Property of Permeability......Page 150
Regarding the Broad Conceptual Property of Differentiation......Page 151
Coming to Psychotherapy and Benefiting From Psychotherapy......Page 152
Regarding Describing the Individual's Efforts at Emotional Regulation......Page 158
Adaptive Orientations—Coping and Defensive—Available to Individuals......Page 159
Regarding the Diagnosis and Conceptualization of ADHD......Page 164
The Problem of Conduct and Antisocial Disorder or Delinquent Behavior......Page 167
Changing Ego Structures Via Drugs—An Uncertain Conjecture......Page 169
Some Diverse Observations and Asides......Page 171
A Short History of a Still-Unsettled Approach......Page 173
Unresolved Issues......Page 175
Some Recent Five-Factor Findings......Page 176
Higher-Order Factor Analysis of the Five Factors......Page 178
Evaluative Remarks......Page 180
Some History and Orienting Remarks......Page 181
Mischel's Current Theoretical Conceptualization......Page 185
Mischel's Hot–Cool System Proposal......Page 189
Evaluative Remarks......Page 190
The Conception of Regulation......Page 197
Regarding Genetics and Personality......Page 198
The Basic Dilemma of Ego Development......Page 200
Ego Functioning Structures......Page 201
The Beginning Neonate......Page 202
Gender Differences in Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency......Page 205
Molding Psychological Development......Page 206
Regarding Compliance......Page 210
Regarding Aggression and Prosocial Behavior......Page 213
Regarding Imitation–Modeling......Page 215
References......Page 218
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