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Personality Functioning Cannot Only Be One Thing: A Call For Theoretical Pluralism

2026-04-19

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<p>Since its origins in recent diagnostic perspectives, the concept of personality functioning has been exclusively defined as a general factor of personality (pathology). Researchers have justified this definition by appealing to descriptive empirical findings (e.g., positive correlations among various personality disorder indicators) or traditional psychoanalytic theories (e.g., ego psychology). In this review,...

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Literature Corpus work: 37be51fb-19bd-5a1e-9563-066e8455322a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a8rdk_v1

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