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Further Detail: Fieldwide Frameworks of Personality Psychology

What are Fieldwide Frameworks: An Introduction

• What is a Fieldwide Framework? (Begin Here)
• Are Fieldwide Frameworks Important?

Frameworks Popular Between 1957 and the Present

• Theory-by-Theory Framework (c. 1957)
• Maddi's Comparative Theories Framework (c. 1968)
• Perspective-by-Perspective Framework (c. 1978)

New Frameworks for the Field

• McAdams' "Levels of Knowing" Framework (c. 1996)
• The Systems Framework: A New Vision (c. 1994; 1998; 2005)
• Lluís-Font's Systems Net Framework (c. 2006)

Perspective-by-Perspective Framework (c. 1978)

The dominant framework in the field today is the perspective-by-perspective framework. It envisions the field as a series of theoretical perspectives on the personality system. Some common theoretical perspectives are the:

1. psychodynamic
2. psychoevolutionary
3. trait
4. social cognitive

and so on.

Some spirited arguments for a perspectives framework can be found in the textbook by David Funder, "The Personality Puzzle."