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- Abstract
- Historical Accounts of the Healthy Personality
- Positive Psychology
- Trait Psychology
- Overview
- Study 1: What Is the Personality Profile of a Psychologically Healthy Individual?
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- Expert rater profile of the healthy personality
- Agreement with positive psychology experts and college students
- Does interest in positive psychology matter?
- What do students think?
- Correlation with expert-generated profiles of personality pathology
- Summary
- Study 2: How Well Does the Healthy FFM Profile Capture Psychological Health?
- Study 2a: How Dependable Is the Healthy Personality Across 2 Weeks?
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- Descriptives
- Test–retest reliability
- Study 2b: What Is the Inter-Rater Consistency, Rank-Order Stability, and Heritability of the Healthy Personality?
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- Descriptives
- Cross-rater reliability
- Longitudinal stability
- Heritability
- Study 2c: Is the Healthy Personality Associated With Health-Related Criterion Variables?
- Method
- Samples
- Criterion measures
- Well-being
- Self-esteem
- Core self-evaluations
- Need for cognition
- Optimism
- Self-concept clarity
- Planful competence
- Self-control
- Aggression
- Narcissism
- Psychopathy
- Results and Discussion
- Study 2d: Is the Healthy Personality Related to But Also Distinct From a Normative Personality Profile?
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- General Discussion
- What Basic Personality Traits Characterize the Psychologically Healthy Individual?
- Assessing Healthy Personality Functioning With the Healthy FFM Profile
- Implications
- Limitations
- Conclusion
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Abstract
What basic personality traits characterize the psychologically healthy individual? The purpose of this article was to address this question by generating an expert-consensus model of the healthy person in the context of the 30 facets (and 5 domains) of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) system of traits. In a first set of studies, we found that the healthy personality can be described, with a high level of agreement, in terms of the 30 facets of the NEO-PI-R. High levels of openness to feelings, positive emotions, and straightforwardness, together with low levels on facets of neuroticism, were particularly indicative of healthy personality functioning. The expert-generated healthy personality profile was negatively correlated with profiles of pathological personality functioning and positively correlated with normative personality functioning. In a second set of studies, we matched the NEO-PI-R profiles of over 3,000 individuals from 7 different samples with the expert-generated healthy prototype to yield a healthy...