The Actualizing and Formative Tendencies: Prioritizing the motivational constructs of the person-centered approach / Die Aktualisierungstendenz und die formative Tendenz: Prioritäten setzen bei den motivationalen Konstrukten des Personzentrierten Ansatzes / Las Tendencias Actualizante y Formativa: Priorizando los constructos motivacionals del enfoque centrado en la persona / Les Tendances Actualisantes et Formatives: Quelle priorité pour les concepts motivationnels de l'approche centrée sur la personne? / Tendência Actualizante e Tendência Formativa: a primazia dos constructos motivacionais na Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa /

Abstract

The article advocates for the equal prioritization of the formative and actualizing tendencies as motivational constructs in the person-centered approach. It describes a rationale, including problems with self-determination, varied identity ideas, and the ever-changing global context. The actualizing tendency roots growth in the maintenance and enhancement of the single human individual while the formative tendency is broader and both subsumes and exists in dialogue with the actualizing tendency. The formative tendency applies to all life processes, whether individual or group, organic or inorganic. It posits growth as fundamentally interconnected. Explicit prioritizing of both tendencies aids a multicultural and ethical understanding of person-centered theory where compromise and wider applications are necessary.

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