... personality was centered on the idea of self-concept. Roger's believed that we all have a self-concept about ourselves, which contains information about ourselves, our attitudes, and our beliefs. The Q-sort method was generally used to examine an individual's self-concept, it involved giving the participant cards which contained statements on the personality, such as ' I find it hard to get over things'. The participant works through the cards dividing them into three separate sets: one which best describes the participant; one for the less applicable statements and one for those statements which are not consistent with their ideas about their self. The participant then rates his/her self, using the grouped statements. Roger's stipulated that it is our self-concept, which determines the individual's behaviour. Many psychologists have tried to provide an extensive description of the personality. Cattell (1943) attempted this by gathering all the personality terms in the dictionary. He reduced ...

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