Personal Construct Theory
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The study of personal constructs of death and fear of death among Taiwanese adolescents.

30 Oct 2009 This study administered an open-ended questionnaire about death and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MFODS) to explore the relationships between personal constructs about death and fears of death among Taiwanese adolescents. The sample ... Read more...

Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults.

3 Oct 2009 Understanding older adults' social functioning difficulties requires insight into their recognition of emotion processing in voices and bodies, not just faces, the focus of most prior research. We examined 60 young and 61 older adults' recognition ... Read more...

Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge.

30 Jul 2009 This study examined an ecological perspective on the development of antisocial behavior during adolescence, examining direct, additive, and interactive effects of child and both parenting and community factors in relation to youth problem behavior. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personal Construct Theory'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The study of personal constructs of death and fear of death among Taiwanese adolescents. 30 Oct 2009
• Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults. 3 Oct 2009
• Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Attention moderates the processing of inhibitory information in primary psychopathy. 30 Jul 2009
• The relationship between counterfactual thinking and emotional reactions to event outcomes: does one account fit all? 30 Jul 2009
• A classification of controlled interpersonal affect regulation strategies. 30 Jul 2009
• Unpacking the informational bases of empathic accuracy. 30 Jul 2009
• The rapid development of explicit gaze judgment ability at 3 years. 26 Jul 2009
• Individual differences in the theory of mind and superior temporal sulcus. 22 Jul 2009
• Impaired self-reflection in psychiatric disorders among adults: a proposal for the existence of a network of semi independent functions. 14 Jul 2009
• Deconstructing the "reign of error": interpersonal warmth explains the self-fulfilling prophecy of anticipated acceptance. 29 Jun 2009
• Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behavior. 29 Jun 2009
• The "me" I claim to be: cultural self-construal elicits self-presentational goal pursuit. 29 Jun 2009
• Intrasexual vigilance: the implicit cognition of romantic rivalry. 29 Jun 2009
• Source entitativity and the elaboration of persuasive messages: the roles of perceived efficacy and message discrepancy. 29 Jun 2009
• Egocentric pattern projection: how implicit personality theories recapitulate the geography of the self. 29 Jun 2009
• Goals, intentions and mental states: challenges for theories of autism. 3 Jun 2009
• The role of empathic accuracy in adolescents' peer relations and adjustment. 2 Jun 2009
• Characteristics and needs of people with intellectual disability who have higher IQs. 30 May 2009
• Career success implications of political skill. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Personal Construct Theory'

Definition: A psychological theory based on dimensions or categories used by a given person in describing or explaining the personality and behavior of others or of himself. The basic idea is that different people will use consistently different categories. The theory was formulated in the fifties by George Kelly. Two tests devised by him are the role construct repertory test and the repertory grid test. (From Stuart Sutherland, The International Dictionary of Psychology, 1989)

Descriptor UI: D018187

Alternative terms: Personal Construct Theory; Construct Theories, Personal; Construct Theory, Personal; Personal Construct Theories; Theories, Personal Construct; Theory, Personal Construct;

Tree Number: F02.739.660;

History Note: 94

Technical Notes: no qualif; includes personal construct, personal construct method, personal construct organization, etc.; for personal construct ther, coord IM with PSYCHOTHERAPY (IM)