PERSONALITY THEORY AND ADULT DEVELOPMENT

Personality Theory and Adult Development

Personality Theory and Adult Development

Summary of the Article

I found the article Determinants and Mechanisms in Ego Identity Development: A Review and Synthesis by Bosma and Kunnen (2001) highly informative and relevant to my course study.

The article is very qualitative in terms of its content. It discusses that the topic of personality development lies at the interface of two larger and more familiar topics: personality theory and developmental psychology. However, as the present summary will demonstrate, most explorations of personality development focus on broad issues of identity and not on the narrower personality traits ...