سمات الشخصية حسب نظرية كلود روبرت كلونينجر

Abstract EN

The biopsychosocial and spiritual theory of Claude Robert Cloninger, is one of the most modern theories about personality since its appearance in the mid-eighties of the last century, as it formed the subject of research for thousands of researchers in western societies.

despite this wide spread, it is not known in Arabic studies in general and Algerian studies in particular.

therefore, this paper came to introduce this global theorist and his theory, to promote the latter and open the field of research about it in the Arab and Algerian academic spaces.

we have relied on the inductive method in collecting scientific material from articles and books that dealt with the theory, then reading and analyzing it.

we have concluded that Cloninger presented a general model of personality with the aim of providing happiness and well-being for the human being; he did not stop at studying disorders like others.

it also dealt with man in all its biological, psychological, social and spiritual aspects, based on research and studies about man in various sciences such as genetics, neuroscience, phylogeny, psychology and psychiatry, which made his results more accurate.

Cloninger suggests that personality consists of two factors, temperament and character, and seven dimensions of non-linear relationships fall under them, represented in four dimensions of temperaments: novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, and persistence.

the three dimensions of character are self- directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence.

these traits are measured by the revised temperament and character inventory (TCI-R).