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The Optimal Personality - An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
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The Optimal Personality - An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Personality
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The terms mental health, maturity, personality integration,
self-actualization have been used by psychologists to represent the
realm of the ideal or optimal personality. Originally published in
1974, Professor Richard Coan here describes a method of analysing
this domain, and examines the important theoretical implications of
his findings. He developed instruments to measure various
characteristics, including personal consistency, the experience of
control and openness to experience, which are associated with
current concepts of sound psychological functioning. A battery
containing these instruments was administered to several hundred
subjects and analysed. The results, reported here, are
enlightening. It was found, for example, that the different
characteristics viewed by psychologists as traits of the ideal
person do not constitute a unitary pattern. There is no evidence of
a general dimension of personality integration or mental health. A
number of independent components or factors of sound functioning
were isolated. Some desirable traits were discovered to be
inversely related to each other, many of these relationships
appearing to involve a choice between an open or spontaneous
orientation and a more ordered and controlled orientation. The
author's view, fully supported by his findings, is that if people
are to achieve maximal realization of their potentials, a clear
requisite is the flexible utilization of various modes of
experiencing and acting.
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