Personality Psychology is a separate section of psychology who studies personality and individual processes, making of full individual rights.
Personality Psychology focuses on the desire to create a consistent picture of the individual in general alignment with the basic mental processes.At the same time a separate part of the work is the study of individual differences of people.
Personality - it is a social individual who acts subject and object relations in the society for a certain period of history, manifests itself in the work, communication and behavior.The problem of personality in psychology is considered in great detail and in different ways.
Personality peculiar holistic spiritual aspect, certain temperament (the structure of the natural properties), capacity (volitional, emotional and intellectual property) and direction (interests, ideals, needs).These features are dependent on the properties of human mental, characterizing the level of activity and providing individual adaptation to the effects of irritants.
Personality Psychology pays particular attention to this concept as temperament, since he is the basis of personality.Temperament is a set of individual characteristics of a person that determine the dynamics of its behavior under the influence of mental processes take place.Dynamics - a tempo, rhythm, intensity, duration of mental processes and certain external behavioral characteristics (mobility, quick reactions, activity, etc.).Temperament does not characterize the attitudes, beliefs, interests, does not define the capabilities, does not reflect the value of the person, but rather reflects its dynamism.
study the person is not only a psychological science.His theories have lawyers, sociologists and other specialists.
Personality Psychology distinguishes between personality and individuality.Especially for individual understand a certain person, that make it different from others.In a broad sense, the concept of the person close to the concept of individuality.In a narrow sense, the person to understand a man who himself builds his own life, speaking with the responsible subject of his own volition.
description of the individual, there are many.Psychologists different schools of thought give it different definitions of the concept.This is due to differences of opinion.Discrepancies occur on the level of development of the individual, the mechanisms of its development, and other features.
in various psychological theories of personality is a central concept.Each approach has its own psychological theory.The most significant personality theories in foreign psychology - is psychodynamic, dispositional, behavioral, phenomenological, cognitive.
in psychological science is allocated a set of directions - educational, behavioral, psychoanalytic, religious, psychodynamic, humanistic, transpersonal, realistic, and others.Therefore, each of them explores the problem in their own way, seeing the different nature of it.From this vision follow particular development opportunities, growth and life of the individual.
Also in psychology emit large sections: general, social and personality psychology, family development, age, abnormal psychology, psychotherapy.All of these features and explains the existence of different views on the understanding and treatment of the problem of personality in psychology.
Personality Psychology has subsections: diagnosis and differential psychology;emotional and volitional personality;Conduct research into the causes, motives and needs;personal development.