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In this chapter the author considers more directly what personality is. He considers some of the basic qualities and structures of personality the most theorists regard as fundamental and which they incorporate in their theories in one form or another. In the first section, he takes up the fundamental qualities, which include consistency, development of structure, potentiality for change, and integration;. The second section covers two specific typical personality constructs: motivation and control. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)