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What does "personality" mean?

Smith, Gudmund LU (2003) In Nordisk Psykologi: Teori, Forskning, Praksis 55(1). p.23-30
Abstract
The concept of personality is scrutinized as used both in common parlance and in more sophisticated frames of reference. Current multidimensional models are criticized for their reliance on self-descriptive questionnaires and for their lack of a hierarchical dimension, differentiating more or less decisive determinants of behavior. A possible psychoanalytic model is viewed with more benevolence but rejected in the end because of associationistic remnants still dominating its meta-theory. instead a superordinate model of personality is offered, based on process as its central ingredient.
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Nordisk Psykologi: Teori, Forskning, Praksis
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55
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Dansk Psykologisk Forlag
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0029-1463
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