Political Psychology and Personality

Authors

Aubrey Immelman, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2005

Disciplines

American Politics | International Relations | Leadership Studies | Other Political Science | Other Psychology | Personality and Social Contexts

Abstract

Following a brief overview of historical approaches to personality-in-politics inquiry, this book chapter reviews the current state of the field – specifically, psychodynamic approaches, trait/motivational perspectives, and cognitive models – and argues that Theodore Millon’s personological model offers an integrative framework for assessing personality in politics and building a conceptual bridge between personality patterns and political leadership styles.

Millon’s model accounts for structural and functional personality attributes at the behavioral, phenomenological, intrapsychic, and biophysical levels of analysis and provides a theoretically coherent framework for studying personality in politics consonant with established principles in the adjacent sciences and integrative with respect to accommodating a diversity of politically relevant personal characteristics.

Comments

Volume details: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Handbook+of+Personology+and+Psychopathology-p-9780471693123

Find this book in a library: https://worldcat.org/title/55474871

Related publications by the author

Immelman, A. (2003). Personality in political psychology. In I. B. Weiner (Series Ed.), T. Millon & M. J. Lerner (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 5. Personality and social psychology(pp. 599–625). Wiley. Full text available at https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/51/

Immelman, A., & Millon, T. (2003, June). A research agenda for political personality and leadership studies: An evolutionary proposal. Unpublished manuscript, Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, Collegeville and St. Joseph, MN. Digital Commons. http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/124/

Immelman, A. (1993). The assessment of political personality: A psychodiagnostically relevant conceptualization and methodology. Political Psychology, 14(4), 725–741. https://doi.org/10.2307/3791383

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Recommended Citation

Immelman, A. (2005). Political psychology and personality. In S. Strack (Ed.), Handbook of personology and psychopathology (pp. 198–225). Wiley.