Abstract
Psychologists who carry out personality assessments must be conversant in diverse technical languages to describe their clients’ social contexts and inner personality function. The clinician needs to understand a person’s family, gender role, ethnic identity, religious beliefs, and similar qualities, and also a client’s inner personality functioning, including the workings of motives, emotions. cognition, and self-control: these may be characterized by relevant psychiatric symptoms, personality traits, and individual test scores such as those on the MMPI-2-RF and Rorschach-Performance Assessment System. The Personality Systems Framework for Assessment (PSF-A) can support the assessment process by organizing information about both an individual’s context and personality function, freeing the professional to optimally focus on characterizing their clients.
Department
UNH Personality Lab
Publication Date
2018
Journal Title
Journal of Personality Assessment
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Mayer, John D., "An Integrated Approach to Personality Assessment Based on the Personality Systems Framework" (2018). Journal of Personality Assessment. 3.
https://scholars.unh.edu/faculty_pubs/3
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment in 2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hjpa20