Contributions of the Trait Approach
People
differ from one another in a huge number of ways, and one of the major
contri-butions of the trait approach lies in its systematic description of
these differences and its success in reducing the apparently large number of
these differences to manageable size. Moreover, the trait approach provides a
set of continuous personality dimensions on which people can vary in almost
infinite ways. This has certainly increased the precision of our personality
descriptions. The trait approach offers us a rich notion of how personality and
situations jointly shape behavior—leaving us with a more sophisticated theory
and appreciably better predictions about how people of various personalities
will behave in various settings.
The
emergence of the broad Big Five framework has also enabled researchers work-ing
within very different traditions to use agreed-upon measures and to share the
data they collect. As a result, progress on determining the genetic bases and
brain corre-lates of personality differences has accelerated dramatically.
Still, we must draw on other perspectives as well if we are to understand what
a “personality” is, and how it comes to be.
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