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Personal Construct Theory

2009
The development of any discipline is related to the strength of its underpinning theoretical base. Wellestablished disciplines have a diversity of clearly stated and competing theoretical frameworks to describe and explain theoretical constructs.
Caputi, Peter, Hunter, M, Tan, Felix
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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)
E. Button
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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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Personal Construct Theory of George A. Kelly

The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2020
George Kelly was an influential psychologist who offered the Personal Construct Theory (1955) to the field of personality psychology. PCT proposed a theoretical perspective of how people make sense of their worlds through the continuous testing and ...
To, B, Wong, KK-Y
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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.
W. Warren
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Personal Construct Theory

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
G. Chiari
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Personal construct theory and the psychotherapeutic interview

Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1977
A good many years ago when I first set for myself the task of writing a manual of clinical procedures it was with the idea that psychologists needed to get their feet on the ground, and I was out to help them do it. Other scientists had gotten their feet on the ground; why couldn ' t we?
G. Kelly
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Unprecedented Times for Many But Not for All: Personal Construct Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic

, 2020
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are considered in terms of personal construct theory, including the diagnostic constructs proposed by George Kelly. The pandemic is seen to have caused transitions in people’s construing, experienced, for example, as ...
D. Winter, Nick Reed
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Personal Construct Theory

2020
The originator of the theory, George Kelly, is introduced and the basic concepts used in his psychology are outlined, including the Fundamental Postulate, the eleven corollaries, professional diagnostic constructs, and the cycles of construing.
Harry Procter, David A. Winter
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A Personalized Theory of Theory Construction

Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2004
This article describes my personal approach to theory construction. I liken the construction of a theory to the solution of a mathematical puzzle in which the answer is not in the back of the book. I touch on (a) the development of a theoretical perspective, (b) the identification of a specific problem, and (c) the development of a theory to address ...
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