The Five-Factor Model (FFM) has a strong empirical basis for a dimensional model of personality. According to the FFM, personality traits become adaptive or maladaptive in various paths of life, experiences, and contexts. Understanding the adaptive and maladaptive variants in each of the FFM traits should be informative and helpful for researchers and clinicians. However, there are several unsolved issues. They include: 1) it is still unclear how general personality traits would be associated with pathological (maladaptive) personality traits, and 2) how to assess both adaptive and maladaptive aspects of personality traits. In addition, technological advances open up new opportunities to better understand and assess personality traits. Validation evidence about FFM, including adaptive and maladaptive perspectives and scientific methods, will be accumulated in this Research Topic from the past several decades.
For a more comprehensive understanding of one's personality structure and its role in responding in certain shared circumstances (such as the COVID19 pandemic and global climate change) or unshared circumstances (such as personal traumatic experiences), we call for research papers. We welcome papers covering novel approaches to assessments and differentiation of adaptive and maladaptive facets of the FFM in both clinical and non-clinical populations in various contexts. We will explore the scientific evidence that shows the association and differentiation of adaptive and maladaptive facets of FFM in the fields of counseling, clinical, social, industrial, and organizational psychology. Factors ranging from individual trait differences to social contexts will be considered to uncover nuanced relationships between personality structures and adaptive and maladaptive functioning.
Validation evidence about FFM including adaptive and maladaptive perspectives and scientific methods to verify them in various aspects of psychology will be included in this Research Topic. The scope of validation studies includes content, substantive, structural, external, consequential, and generalizability aspect validity in organizations, politics, industry, and any cultural society. We aim to incorporate the lifespan approach as well as the sociocultural approach to explore the population of different life stages and in different settings to comprehensively understand this topic.
The Five-Factor Model (FFM) has a strong empirical basis for a dimensional model of personality. According to the FFM, personality traits become adaptive or maladaptive in various paths of life, experiences, and contexts. Understanding the adaptive and maladaptive variants in each of the FFM traits should be informative and helpful for researchers and clinicians. However, there are several unsolved issues. They include: 1) it is still unclear how general personality traits would be associated with pathological (maladaptive) personality traits, and 2) how to assess both adaptive and maladaptive aspects of personality traits. In addition, technological advances open up new opportunities to better understand and assess personality traits. Validation evidence about FFM, including adaptive and maladaptive perspectives and scientific methods, will be accumulated in this Research Topic from the past several decades.
For a more comprehensive understanding of one's personality structure and its role in responding in certain shared circumstances (such as the COVID19 pandemic and global climate change) or unshared circumstances (such as personal traumatic experiences), we call for research papers. We welcome papers covering novel approaches to assessments and differentiation of adaptive and maladaptive facets of the FFM in both clinical and non-clinical populations in various contexts. We will explore the scientific evidence that shows the association and differentiation of adaptive and maladaptive facets of FFM in the fields of counseling, clinical, social, industrial, and organizational psychology. Factors ranging from individual trait differences to social contexts will be considered to uncover nuanced relationships between personality structures and adaptive and maladaptive functioning.
Validation evidence about FFM including adaptive and maladaptive perspectives and scientific methods to verify them in various aspects of psychology will be included in this Research Topic. The scope of validation studies includes content, substantive, structural, external, consequential, and generalizability aspect validity in organizations, politics, industry, and any cultural society. We aim to incorporate the lifespan approach as well as the sociocultural approach to explore the population of different life stages and in different settings to comprehensively understand this topic.
