1951 T. Parsons et al. in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils i. i. 18 The child's development of a ‘personality’..is to be viewed as the establishment of a relatively specific, definite, and consistent system of need-dispositions.
1980 N. Abercrombie et al. ii. 47 The cohesion of society (or of any social group or social unit) depends on the interpenetration of cultural patterns of general meaning, social institutions and need-dispositions at the personality level.