TY - JOUR
T1 - Cybernetic Big Five Theory
AU - DeYoung, Colin G.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory attempts to provide a comprehensive, synthetic, and mechanistic explanatory model. Constructs that describe psychological individual differences are divided into personality traits, reflecting variation in the parameters of evolved cybernetic mechanisms, and characteristic adaptations, representing goals, interpretations, and strategies defined in relation to an individual's particular life circumstances. The theory identifies mechanisms in which variation is responsible for traits in the top three levels of a hierarchical trait taxonomy based on the Big Five and describes the causal dynamics between traits and characteristic adaptations. Lastly, the theory links function and dysfunction in traits and characteristic adaptations to psychopathology and well-being.
AB - Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory attempts to provide a comprehensive, synthetic, and mechanistic explanatory model. Constructs that describe psychological individual differences are divided into personality traits, reflecting variation in the parameters of evolved cybernetic mechanisms, and characteristic adaptations, representing goals, interpretations, and strategies defined in relation to an individual's particular life circumstances. The theory identifies mechanisms in which variation is responsible for traits in the top three levels of a hierarchical trait taxonomy based on the Big Five and describes the causal dynamics between traits and characteristic adaptations. Lastly, the theory links function and dysfunction in traits and characteristic adaptations to psychopathology and well-being.
KW - Big Five
KW - Characteristic adaptations
KW - Cybernetics
KW - Personality traits
KW - Plasticity
KW - Stability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.07.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938090726
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 56
SP - 33
EP - 58
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -