Course: Personality psychology

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Course title Personality psychology
Course code PCH/91PPA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cakirpaloglu Panajotis, prof. PhDr. DrSc.
Course content
Students will be acquainted with key topics in the following areas: 1. Personality maturation and maturity (adaptation, integrity, individuality, self-actualization); 2. Basic personalities processes (perception, learning, memorization, motivation, attitudes, values); 3. Higher personality functions and processes (development of cognition, intelligence, thinking, emotional intelligence); 4. Self-concept and coping (stress, defense mechanisms, coping, locus of control, learned helplessness); 5. Personality styles and disorders (PSI classification of personality, self-regulation, self-development, styles and personality disorders); 6. Attachment (early development of relationship styles, types of attachment in adults, attachment and maladaptation); 7. Aggression and aggressiveness (origin and classification of aggression, traffic and aggression, workplace bullying).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide relevant knowledge of personality psychology related to the doctoral study of work and organization psychology and traffic psychology. Emphasis is placed on the psychological description and explanation of personality, the definition and use of key theories and concepts, the identification or study of professional and classical writings about personality, including the use of professional knowledge in practice.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam, Seminar Work

A seminar work dealing issues in personality psychology at the extent of 5 - 7 pages and its presentation in the seminar, including a discussion.
Recommended literature
  • Blustein, D. L. (Ed.). (2013). The Oxford handbook of the psychology of working. Oxford University Press..
  • Cakirpaloglu, P., Šmahaj, J., Cakirpaloglu, S., & Zielina, M. (2016). Šikana na pracovišti v České republice: teorie, výzkum a praxe. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci..
  • Cakirpaloglu, P. (2012). Úvod do psychologie osobnosti. Grada Publishing as..
  • Gagné, M. (Ed.). (2014). The Oxford handbook of work engagement, motivation, and self-determination theory. Oxford University Press, USA..
  • Hall, C. S., Lindzey, G., Loehlin, J. C., & Manosevitz, M. (1997). Psychológia osobnosti: úvod do teórií osobnosti. Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo..
  • Hřebíčková, M. (2011). Pětifaktorový model v psychologii osobnosti. Grada Publishing as..
  • Christiansen, N., & Tett, R. (Eds.). (2013). Handbook of personality at work. Routledge..
  • Phares, EJ; Chaplin, WF (1997). Introduction to personality (Fourth ed.). New York: Longman..
  • Praško, J. (2003). Poruchy osobnosti. Portál..
  • Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2016). Theories of personality. Cengage Learning..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Work & Organizational Psychology and Traffic Psychology (2020) Category: Psychology courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Work & Organizational Psychology and Traffic Psychology (2020) Category: Psychology courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer