Pura y Recupero: dos personalidades

Pura es persistente, empatica, llena de confianza en la vida y en los demas.
Recupero es depresivo a veces, suspicaz la mayor parte del tiempo, erratico en sus metas.

La siguientes notas son citas directas de un libro que trata sobre el desarrollo de la personalidad.
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Puras is persistent, empathetic, trusting person. Recupero is depressive but mostly suspicious and erratic in his goals for life.

The following direct quotations on the topic of personality development may be of interest to you.
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Notes from Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course
Book by Lea Pulkkinene, Avshalom Caspi, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 422, pgs.



"Development is defined as “selective age-related
change in adaptive capacity” (Baltes, Staudinger, and Lindenberger,
1999) and special attention is given to the developing person's con­
tribution to the creation of his or her own development (Brandtstädter,
1998). Individuals steer their physical, cognitive, social, and personality
development by constructing strategies for coping with various develop­
mental challenges, by setting goals, and by making choices. According
to Brandtstädter (this volume), such intentional self development over
the life span is geared to the realization and maintenance of normative
representations that individuals construct of themselves and their future".

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"The function and significance of goals and choices in successful deve­
lopment is especially apparent beyond childhood, and several chapters in
this volume are explicitly concerned with these topics in their efforts to
study successful development. Pulkkinen, Nurmi, and Kokko (this vol­
ume) discuss how individuals steer their development by setting goals
and making choices as responses to developmental challenges. On the
one hand, personal goals reflect major age-graded transitions and nor­
mative demands. On the other hand, individual differences in personal
goals reflect motivational orientations, such as security seeking or aim­
ing at personal growth, which result in intraindividual coherence in goal
patterns. With data from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality
and Social Development, Pulkkinen and her colleagues show that some
personal goals are so pervasive that they operate as unifying life themes
that define long-term successful and unsuccessful development".

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"Bouchard (1995) correctly argued that a purely sociocultural perspec­
tive on the life course “ignores the fact that life-histories themselves are
complex evolved adaptations, ” and suggests that an evolutionary perspec­
tive may complement the sociocultural perspective by exploring how per­
sonality variation is related to those adaptively-important problems with
which human beings have had to repeatedly contend".


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"An agentic conception of human nature is also central in Heckhausen's
work on control. Heckhausen (this volume) proposes that humans strive
to maximize primary control of their environment throughout life. How­
ever, control capacities undergo radical changes and losses and indivi­
duals have to disengage from unattainable goals and manage their own
emotional responses to such loss experiences. This type of control that
is directed at the internal world of the individual is referred to as sec­
ondary control. Heckhausen shows how the age-normative structure of
life-course transitions allows individuals to anticipate decremental
changes in the opportunities to attain developmental goals. For example,
an individual can increase primary control striving when approaching
“developmental deadlines” (e.g., union formation, health-maintenance
in old age) and use secondary control to compensate for potential neg­
ative affect and self-evaluation associated with failure to meet or resolve
developmental deadlines successfully."


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