Investigación en psicología de la personalidad. Líneas de evolución y situación actual
ISSN: 0212-8179
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 74
Pages: 39-78
Type: Article
More publications in: Boletín de psicología
Abstract
This paper discusses trends in personality research for the last decades, paying special attention to its current status. To achieve this objective, we include a review of papers published, from January 2000 to June 2001, in five prominent journals. Each article was assessed in terms of content and methodology; the results are compared with reviews done in the 90s, and differences between European and North-American journals are examined. These data allow us to analyze the research fields which seem to consolidate; we also identify some methodological limitations which seem to persist, and we reflect on the probable and desirable futures of personality research.