中国科学院心理研究所机构知识库

个体自身内在行为变异(个体在不同情境中行为的变化)蕴含着有关个体特征的大量信息,并且具有时间稳定性。这种稳定的变化模式被称为个体的“行为识别标志”,它刻画了个人行为的稳定性和独特性。相对于特质范式的静止性和流于现象学描述而言,自身内在变异规律可能从另一个侧面反映了人格的内在机制和动力过程。作者以模拟情境研究为例,介绍了人格学家在使用系统化、数量化方法揭示上述内在机制和动力过程方面所做的尝试。

The pattern of intra-individual variation may not change across situations and over time, therefore it contains a large amount of significant information about a person's personality. The stable variation pattern is called a person’s “behavioural signature”, which characterizes stability and uniqueness in each individual behaviour to certain characteristics of a situation. Compared to the trait paradigm which dwells on motionless and phenomenological description, the rule of intra-individual variation, from the dynamic perspective, may reflect an inner cognitive pattern and mechanism. The paper briefly introduces to the Chinese psychologists the simulated situations approach, which can help personality researchers understand and find out the pattern of intra-individual variation.