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In my reply to Mervielde first of all I will clarify my basic conception of personality. The assumptions from which my reasoning derives imply that personality is an open system whose main properties are to be self reflexive and self regulatory. In great part these properties emerge from the encounters of the individual open system with other analogous open systems in the realm of the social environment. In this view focusing on “process” does not imply underestimating stable dispositions or predispositions. Rather, the dynamic properties of traits as emerging characteristics of individuation are underlined. The construction of personality appears to be the result of bio-social processes which are in great part transactional and irreversible.
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Caprara, G.V. (1993). Reply to I. Mervielde. In: Hettema, J., Deary, I.J. (eds) Foundations of Personality. NATO ASI Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1660-2_20
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