Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Based on a framework of six domains of knowledge about personality functioning such as dispositional domain, the biological domain, the intrapsychic domain, the cognitive/experiential domain, the social and cultural domain, and the adjustment domain. Larsen and Buss's Personality Psychology is based on a framework of six important domains of knowledge about personality functioning. These six domains are the dispositional domain (traits, trait taxonomies, and personality dispositions over time), the biological domain (physiology, genetics, evolution), the intrapsychic domain (psychodynamics, motives), the cognitive/experiential domain (cognition, emotion, and the self), the social and cultural domain (social interaction, gender, and culture), and the adjustment domain (stress, coping, health, and personality disorders). This book is based on the notion that these domains of knowledge represent the organizing structure of contemporary personality psychology.