CARVALHO, Lucas de Francisco; PIANOWSKI, Giselle; REIS, Ana Maria    SILVA, Rosiane Gonçalves Coelho. PERSONALITY: THE NATIONAL PANORAMA FROM THE STANDPOINT OF INTERNATIONAL DEFINITIONS. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2017, 23, 1, pp.123-146. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2017v23n1p123-146.

This study aims to investigate how personality has been understood in Brazil by expert researchers in the field and based on scientific publications of recent years. Participated of the research 11 PhDs in psychology who answered a questionnaire developed by the authors of this study about the definition of the construct. Furthermore, a search was performed on the Scientific Electronic Library Online Brasil (SciELO-Brasil) database, including the years 2000 to 2013, with the descriptor personality. With regard to the points of convergence by national experts on the definition of the construct, having found among the most frequent terms, personality traits, behavioral patterns and stability. Firstly, there are a significant number of national publications in the area of personality; on the other hand, little is published dealing with the definition of this construct. The works found are presented and discussed

: Psychological assessment; Personality traits; Individual differences.

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