This book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which
seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes
particular insights from earlier models while permitting both
within-person and between-person comparisons. The C-SAP is based on an
assumption that a systems approach potentially might advance the core
concerns of personality psychology, with a priority on personality
coherence and incoherence. Within this approach the author postulates
the System of Regulation and Integration Stimulation-a hierarchically
organized control system-as a fundamental structure of personality
architecture, and provides a complete account of the integrative role of
the SRIS within the personality system. In addition, the author
introduces to this theory the affective traits (anxiety and depression)
as elements of intraindividual coherence/incoherence, with the intention
of offering a more complete explanation for the functional links between
negative affectivity and attentional processing. From the Foreword . . .
"In this detailed and thought-provoking book, Malgorzata Fajkowska
provides a novel perspective on personality and its expressions in
anxiety and depression. Her theory is well founded, resplendent in
factual description and theoretical nuance, and bound to stimulate new
thinking and research." Philip J. Corr, City University London
Prepublication praise . . . "This book represents a substantial advance.
The author develops a complex theoretical edifice that combines in a
judicial way the biological, psychological, and situational approaches.
I am certain that Fajkowska's new theory will exert much influence in
the years ahead." Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands
College "A masterpiece. This book includes many new ideas, presents new
material, and constitutes the platform for a new approach to
personality. Fajkowska has attempted a tour de force and has written a
book that will be difficult--if not impossible--for anyone interested in
personality to overlook." Shulamith Kreitler, University of Tel Aviv "In
this book Malgorzata Fajkowska presents her Complex-System Approach to
Personality, a pioneering attempt to integrate personality research that
proposes a model in which temperament traits and attentional processes
are functionally related. An original and unique contribution to the
literature on personality." Jan Strelau, University of Social Sciences
and Humanities
