"fundamental personality" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to someone's enduring, persistent underlying characteristics, as opposed to superficial traits that they may choose to present to the world. For example, "Despite presenting a confident public image, her fundamental personality was fragile and insecure."
At the core of Azoulay's presentation was a distinction between two fundamental personality types: the extrovert and the introvert.
And no one yet knows how fundamental personality factors, like neuroticism or extraversion, shape the content of life stories or their component scenes.
It hints that the roots of political judgments may lie partly in fundamental personality types and even in the hard-wiring of our brains.
Behaviour-therapy techniques differ from psychiatric methods, particularly psychoanalysis, in that they are predominately symptom (behaviour) oriented and show little or no concern for unconscious processes, achieving new insight, or effecting fundamental personality change.
This leads to Homer making note of their fundamental personality differences, causing him to question if Marge is truly his soulmate, and he leaves.
There is some relief in learning that some of our regretful purchasing decisions may have been caused by unavoidable mental fatigue, and not a fundamental personality flaw. .
Attribution theory — the way an individual attaches meaning to events and behaviors — is fundamental to personality, but in this novel, almost everyone comes to essentially the same conclusion: looking for causality in the human condition is futile.
On fundamental points that go beyond personality conflicts the books also offer clashing views.
For Kiril — the only mind we get access to — these disjunctions are fundamental to his personality.
Within this approach I postulate the System of Regulation and Integration Stimulation (SRIS) as a fundamental structure of personality architecture.
Many psychologists endorse what is known as the five-factor model which describes five fundamental dimensions of personality (i.e., neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and openness to experience; McCrae and John 1992).
