Journal of Personality

Journal of Personality is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, founded in 1932 as Character and Personality and renamed in 1945. Its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.（Journal of Personality）是由（Wiley）出版的双月刊，1932 年以（Character and Personality）之名创办，1945 年更名。其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal is devoted to scientific investigations in the field of personality.该刊致力于人格领域的科学研究。
• It focuses particularly on personality and behaviour dynamics, personality development, and individual differences.尤重人格与行为动力学、人格发展以及个体差异。
• Individual differences are studied in the cognitive, affective and interpersonal domains.个体差异研究覆盖认知、情感与人际领域。
• Articles must make a substantial empirical contribution, and literature reviews, purely theoretical papers and test-validation studies are ordinarily not considered.论文须有实质的实证贡献；综述、纯理论论文与测验验证研究通常不予考虑。
• The scope is deliberately open so as to reflect all areas of significant current research, and free-format submission is offered to authors.收稿范围刻意保持开放，以反映当前各重要研究领域，并为作者提供自由格式投稿。

History

• The journal was founded in 1932 as Character and Personality, an international psychological quarterly issued by Duke University Press.该刊 1932 年以（Character and Personality）之名创办，是由（Duke University Press）发行的国际心理学季刊。
• Its founding editor was Robert Saudek in London, with Karl Zener at Duke as associate editor.首任主编为（London）的 Robert Saudek，副主编为（Duke）的 Karl Zener。
• As the Second World War ended, the editorial board announced its first reorientation and the title changed to Journal of Personality in 1945, with volume numbering continuing.第二次世界大战结束之际，编委会宣布首次改版，1945 年更名（Journal of Personality），卷号延续不断。
• It is now published by Wiley and has appeared without interruption since its founding.该刊现由（Wiley）出版，自创刊以来连续刊行未断。

Editors

• The editor is Howard Tennen of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.现任主编为（University of Connecticut School of Medicine）的 Howard Tennen。
• William Chopik of Washington University in St Louis serves as an associate editor, and the board includes scholars from many countries.（Washington University in St Louis）的 William Chopik 任副编辑，编委包含多国学者。
• There are dedicated action editors for registered reports and for occasional papers in quantitative methods.该刊为注册报告与定量方法专题论文设有专职处理编辑。
• The journal reflects and stimulates interest in new theoretical and methodological approaches in personality psychology.该刊反映并推动人格心理学新理论与新方法的兴起。