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Shahar G. The subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS): Introduction to the special issue on self, identity, and psychopathology. J Pers. 2019;88(1):5-13doi: 10.1111/jopy.12497.
Shahar, G. (2020). The subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS): Introduction to the special issue on self, identity, and psychopathology. Journal of personality, 88(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12497
Shahar, Golan. "The subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS): Introduction to the special issue on self, identity, and psychopathology." Journal of personality vol. 88,1 (2020): 5-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12497
Shahar G. The subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS): Introduction to the special issue on self, identity, and psychopathology. J Pers. 2020 Feb;88(1):5-13. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12497. Epub 2019 Jul 16. PMID: 31206666.
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J Pers. 2020 Feb;88(1):5-13. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12497. Epub 2019 Jul 16.

The subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS): Introduction to the special issue on self, identity, and psychopathology.

Journal of personality

Golan Shahar

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

PMID: 31206666 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12497

Abstract

This special issue is predicated upon the premise that there exists a subjective-agentic personality sector (SAPS) that is crucially relevant to the understanding and treatment of psychopathology. SAPS is often overlooked by "trait" models in personality psychology. It is comprised of "hot" cognitions about one's self and identity as they unfold throughout the life span and are brought to bear on interpersonal relationships. There are four ways in which SAPS may be involved in psychopathology: (a) inherently, as a component of psychiatric disorders, (b) as a passive vulnerability dimension, namely by interacting with life stress, (c) as an active vulnerability dimension, that is, by propelling external situations that culminate in psychopathology, and (d) by constituting a central consequent of psychopathology (i.e., the scarring pattern, see below). In this Journal of Personality special issue, experts in personality and psychopathology demonstrate the centrality of SAPS in unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar spectrum disorder, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, complex trauma and borderline personality disorder, social anxiety disorder, suicidality in the context of mood disorders, and recovery from schizophrenia. A commentary by Dan McAdams, a leader in the study of self and identity, concludes this special issue.

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keywords: identity; psychopathology; self; subjective-agentic

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