The interpersonal dimension of personality.

The article focuses on the comprehensive schema for a much required facet of psychology, that is, total personality. The reason for this presentation requirement is that current conceptual systems in psychology usually emphasize only one of several areas of personality like behavioral traits, central urges, etc, and relationships among different areas and levels are but imperfectly dealt with. The total personality has three separate areas which are public, the conscious and the private levels. These variables have been selected for the scheme because they are capable of systematic relationship to one another and each variable possess interpersonal reference. Four types of personality variables have been developed for systematic handling of data at each of these three levels and for dealing with the relationships among the levels. These are the interpersonal mechanism, the interpersonal trait, the interpersonal mechanism, and the personal mechanism. The public level of personality data consists of ratings of how an individual behaves, ratings of the effect an individual has upon others.