Personality psychology has long focused on structural trait models, but it can also offer a rich understanding of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of individual differences or entire persons. The field of personality dynamics, which works towards such an understanding, has experienced a renaissance in the last two decades. This review article seeks to act as a primer of that field. It covers its historical roots, summarizes current research strands – along with their theoretical backbones and methodologies – in an accessible way, and sketches some considerations for the future. In doing so, we introduce relevant concepts, give an overview of different topics and phenomena subsumed under the broad umbrella term ‘dynamics’, and highlight the interdisciplinarity as well as applied relevance of the field. We hope this article can serve as a useful overview for scholars within and outside of personality psychology who are interested in the dynamic nature of human behaviour and experience.

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人格的动态，过程，机制和功能：该领域的概述

人格心理学长期以来一直专注于结构特征模型，但它也可以提供对个体差异或整个人的动态，过程，机制和功能的丰富理解。在过去的二十年里，致力于实现这种理解的人格动态领域经历了复兴。这篇评论文章旨在充当该领域的入门。它涵盖了其历史根源，以一种易于访问的方式总结了当前的研究领域以及其理论主干和方法论，并勾勒了对未来的一些考虑。在此过程中，我们介绍了相关概念，概述了广义术语“动力学”中包含的不同主题和现象，并强调了该学科的跨学科性和相关性。