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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Toward a model of personality competencies underlying social and emotional skills: Insight from the circumplex of personality metatraits
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jan Cieciuch
  • Włodzimierz Strus
Item Subtype Further Contribution (e.g. review article, editorial)
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher Frontiers Research Foundation
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1664-1078
Volume 12
Number 711323
Page Range 711323
Date 2021
Abstract Text In recent years, there has been a growing interest in social and emotional skills (SES) both in the scientific literature and in social practice. The paper presents an overview of the ways of understanding what SES are and the catalogs thereof. There are some attempts in the literature to organize these catalogs within the Big Five traits that for a long time was claimed to be the most sound model of basic orthogonal dimensions of personality. However, further research on personality structure revealed that two metatraits can be found above the Big Five traits. These two metatraits form the basis of the Two Factor Model of personality, which was later developed into the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits. It turned out that in certain aspects models based on metatraits have a greater theoretical potential than those based on the Big Five traits. The paper presents a proposal for describing SES from the perspective of the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits rather than the Big Five. In this framework, we distinguish the concept of personality competences that underlie and organize many specific SES and identify the core personality competencies on the basis of the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits model.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.711323
Other Identification Number merlin-id:21665
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