Overview
The Assignment:
In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:
- Identify your selected contemporary theory (either self-determination or personality systems interaction). Present a brief overview of how the selected theory and Rogers’ phenomenological theory each view human personality.
- Provide a brief analysis of your own personality based on both Rogerian and your selected contemporary approach (i.e., self-determination or personality systems interaction). Use at least three of the following dimensions in your analysis:
- Philosophical view of the person
- Internal and external determinants of behavior
- Consistency across situations and over time
- The unity of experience and action
- Varying states of awareness
- Influence of past, present, and future on behavior
- Identify and justify which of these two theories you believe best explains your personality.
- What aspects of these theories could be combined to best explain who you are?
- Support your responses with scholarly literature.