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Is Personality Functioning Unitary or Dialectic? A Dynamical Systems Analysis

2026-04-13

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<p>Since its conceptual origins in recent diagnostic perspectives, the concept of “personality functioning” has sparked heated debate about the structure and development of personality (pathology). Specifically, researchers have disagreed about whether ‘personality functioning’ represents a single general personality factor as well as whether it provides any meaningful information beyond more established construct...

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