Abstract
As was noted in the Introduction, some personality theorists have categorized people into personality types on the basis of distinctive personality characteristics. Personality types are an all-or-none phenomenon — if a person is assigned to one category, he or she does not fall into any other category within that system.
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Fonagy, P. and Higgitt, A. (1984). Personality Theory and Clinical Practice. London: Methuen. This book discusses five of the major theoretical approaches to personality and examines their clinical applications. It also considers the debate about the consistency of personality.
Hampson, S. (1988). The Construction of Personality: An Introduction, 2nd edn. London: Routledge. A widely-acknowledged and authoritative text which looks at a range of different approaches to the study of personality, including multitrait and single-trait approaches, self-theories and implicit personality theories. It also considers issues relating to situationism and interactionism.
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Malim, T., Birch, A. (1998). Type and trait approaches to personality. In: Introductory Psychology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14186-9_36
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