Person-Situation Transactions can Illuminate Personality Dynamics and Processes

In this comment on Baumert and colleagues' article, I zoom in on personality dynamics and processes sensu how short-term personality states and situational variables are interwoven and transact across measurement points in complex manners. A process-focused personality psychology will have to understand better how people navigate from situation to situation in order to explain and predict behavior enacted in situ. Situation management strategies-or how people navigate their situations (person. situation transactions)-can be important explanatory variables of how and why certain people are in certain situations in the first place as well as what people do to the situations they are in. I sketch different situation management strategies and highlight their importance for moving the filed forward. Copyright (C) 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology