System-Functional Model of Personality Traits

The article presents the theoretical basis and the essence of the System-Functional Model of the Personality Traits. This Model is based on the major theoretical propositions and constructs formulated in Russian psychology. The System-Functional Model of the organization of the personality traits, including two subsystems (motivational-semantic and regulatory-dynamic), eight components and sixteen variables which has been realized in the complex researches of sociability, persistence, inquisitiveness, self-organization (orderliness), responsibility, initiative, diligence, confidence, aggressiveness in various age, gender, professional, ethnic groups is described in detail.The system-functional model of the organization of the personality traits has been realized in the complex studies of sociability, persistence, inquisitiveness, self-organization (orderliness), responsibility, initiative, diligence, confidence, aggressiveness in various age, gender, professional, ethnic groups. This model has been applied by the Russian scientists in more than fifty Ph.D. theses.The program of systematic studying of the personality traits is considered. The special attention is given to the comparative research of personality traits within the framework of the system-functional approach that gives the possibility to conduct the most complex investigation of the individual distinctions between the people, which meets the requirements of the education, vocational guidance, psychological consultation and correction. The examples of concrete comparative empirical research are submitted and their basic results are analyzed.