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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY AND RESIDENTIAL CHOICE*

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1981
ABSTRACT Personal construct theory is a cognitive theory of personality that provides a theoretical and methodological framework for examining four major research issues in the behavioral approach to residential choice. The theory elucidates the content and structure of residential cognition at the level of the individual.
VALERIE PRESTON, S. MARTIN TAYLOR
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Constructive Alternativism: George Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory.

2020
George Kelly’s professional focus was on supporting people who were struggling with the stresses of their lives. Finding that the Freudian ideas he had been offered as tools in his own professional training offered little in working towards change with many of his clients, Kelly developed his own approach based upon a constructivist perspective of ...
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On ethics in personal construct theory.

The Humanistic Psychologist, 1995
Abstract In personal construct theory, people interpret the world in unique ways. Constructions are subjective representations rather than objective truths. This means that our ethical constructions are (a) potentially wrong, if there is an external moral reality we cannot access, or (b) no more inherently defensible than others’ ethical constructions,
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Humanistic psychology and personal construct theory.

The Humanistic Psychologist, 1992
Abstract This article describes the strong bond which exists between humanistic psychology and George Kelly's personal construct psychology. First, it examines humanistic concepts found in personal construct psychology such as constructive alternativism, the credulous approach, role relationships, the invitational mood, transitive diagnosis and the ...
Franz R. Epting, Larry M. Leitner
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Deconstructing Constructs: Pitfalls in Personal Construct Theory

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1993
(1993). Deconstructing Constructs: Pitfalls in Personal Construct Theory. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 71-82.
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Personal construct theory and psychological well‐being*

British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1983
The concept of ‘psychological well‐being’ (as opposed to ‘psychological disorder’) is considered from the standpoint of George Kelly's personal construct theory (Kelly, 1955). It is argued that the origin of psychological disorder lies in a difficulty in ‘person construing’, with particular reference to ‘self‐construing’. For some (like schizophrenics)
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A personal construct theory of bulimia

1990
Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology.; Thesis (Ph.D) - La Trobe University, 1990.
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Concepts, Constructs, Cognitive Psychology, and Personal Construct Theory

The Journal of Psychology, 1991
ABSTRACT In this article, I have addressed the efforts to locate and integrate personal construct psychology with other perspectives in psychology (Neimeyer, 1985). The general domain is cognitive psychology, but with a focus on the basic building block of the cognitive perspective, the concept. Personal construct psychology is particularly interesting
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Humanistic Theory and Personal Constructs

1985
It often is contended that prior to the 1960’s there were two main movements in psychology: psychoanalytic and behavioristic. Sociologists of science suggest that the development of both these theoretical perspectives was greatly influenced by cultural factors.
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Personal construct theory and mental health

International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1992
Abstract Although it has been an illusive and controversial concept, mental health is likely to continue to have currency in the presently high-profile debates on health and health education. In this article, I consider the manner in which personal construct theory deals with the concept of mental health.
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