Psicología y Salud (II): tendiendo puentes entre la Psicología Básica y la Aplicada. El rol del fenómeno de personalidad

Abstract

An important part of the psychological aspect in health and sickness has to do with the conduct of a person
as an indidual, that is to say, with the phenomenon of personality. Without an appropriate characterization
of this phenomenon, compliance with two fundamental tasks in psychology and health is made difficult.
These are 1) to
identify
and
evaluate
what a person has done in the past in a stable and consistent way over
a period of time and between situations, and 2) to
translate
the findings
into programs of primary prevention,
able to be reproduced under different conditions and in different scenarios. With the purpose of following up
what was stated in a previous article (Piña, Ybarra, Alcalá y Samaniego, 2010), this study was proposed with
the objective of discussing why, in the context of health, it is fundamental that theoretical models include
a properly coordinated set of categories and concepts which allow basic and applied levels to be linked, as
well as the psychological aspect with the phenomena of health and sickness, among those which highlight
personality.