This monograph owes its origins to the decades-old proposal by
David Bakan (1968) about the duality of human experience. He proposed
that community and agency would be two necessary and sufficient
constructs to classify and to encompass most human relationships.
This dichotomy has been found to be valid by a variety of
contributions over the last half a century (L’Abate, 2009;
L’Abate, Cusinato, Maino, Colesso, & Scilletta, 2010). Additionally,
the purpose of this book is to argue and assert that two important
fields of psychology, family and personality psychologies, if not
already dead are conceptually, empirically, and practically
moribund. They are being superseded respectively by perhaps more
appropriate, perhaps more specific, and more likely verifiable
concepts and constructs, such as intimacy and identity. The
traditional family still conceived as composed by two parents and two
children of different gender is esponsible for only one fourth of all
domiciles in USA. Singles, same-sex couples, and completely different
family organization complete the remaining 100%. Difficulties in
defining what is personality require a change in perspective and
advance toward a comprehensive theory of human relationships that can
and should fulfill requirements necessary to achieve an undoubtedly
grandiose and ambitious universal status.
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Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781461474449
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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