The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment

Personality Theories and Models (Volume 1)

Gregory J Boyle,Gerald Matthews,Donald H Saklofske

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Anno: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781446246061
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Psychologie
• Categoria: Persönlichkeit in der Psychologie

This Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment 2-Volume Set constitutes an essential resource for shaping the future of the scientific foundation of personality research, measurement, and practice.

It reviews the major contemporary personality models (Volume 1) and associated psychometric measurement instruments (Volume 2) that underpin the scientific study of this important area of psychology.

With contributions from internationally renowned academics, this work will be an important reference work for a host of researchers and practitioners in the fields of individual differences and personality assessment, clinical psychology, educational psychology, work and organizational psychology, health psychology and other applied fields as well.

Volume 1: Personality Theories and Models.

Deals with the major theoretical models underlying personality instruments and covers the following broad topics, listed by section heading:

"Explanatory Models For Personality

"Comprehensive Trait Models

"Key Traits: Psychobiology

"Key Traits: Self-Regulation And Stress

"New Trait And Dynamic Trait Constructs

"Applications

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Personality Theories and Models: An Overview
• PART I EXPLANATORY MODELS FOR PERSONALITY
• 2 Psychophysiological and Biochemical Correlates of Personality
• 3 Personality and Information Processing: A Cognitive-Adaptive Theory
• 4 Explanatory Models of Personality: Social-Cognitive Theories and the Knowledge-and-Appraisal Model of Personality Architecture
• 5 Developmental Perspectives
• 6 Personality: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• 7 Behavioral Genetic Studies of Personality: An Introduction and Review of the Results of 50+ Years of Research
• 8 Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality Psychology
• 9 Modern Personality Theories: What Have We Gained? What Have We Lost?
• PART II COMPREHENSIVE TRAIT MODELS
• 10 Eysenck’s Model of Individual Differences
• 11 J.A. Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of Personality
• 12 Simplifying the Cattellian Psychometric Model
• 13 Empirical and Theoretical Status of the Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits
• 14 Critique of the Five-Factor Model of Personality
• PART III KEY TRAITS: PSYCHOBIOLOGY
• 15 Approach and Avoidance Temperaments
• 16 Biological Substrate of Personality Traits Associated with Aggression
• 17 Psychoticism and Impulsivity
• 18 Personality and Sensation Seeking
• 19 Schizotypal Personality Models
• PART IV KEY TRAITS: SELF-REGULATION AND STRESS
• 20 Anxiety Revisited: Theory, Research, Applications
• 21 A Multidimensional, Hierarchical Model of Self-Concept: An Important Facet of Personality
• 22 Optimism and Pessimism as Personality Variables Linked to Adjustment
• 23 Self-Consciousness and Similar Personality Constructs
• 24 Personality and the Coping Process
• PART V NEW TRAIT AND DYNAMIC TRAIT CONSTRUCTS
• 25 Motivational Traits: New Directions and Measuring Motives with the Multi-Motive Grid (MMG)
• 26 Processes on the Borderline Between Cognitive Abilities and Personality: Confidence and its Realism
• 27 Culture: Ways of Thinking and Believing
• 28 Emotional Intelligence
• PART VI APPLICATIONS
• 29 Personality Disorders and the DSM: A Critical Review
• 30 Personality and Treatment Planning for Psychotherapy: The Systematic Treatment Selection Model
• 31 Personality and Health: Current Evidence, Potential Mechanisms, and Future Directions
• 32 Anxiety, Depression, and Anger: Core Components of Negative Affect in Medical Populations
• 33 Personality and Alcohol Use
• 34 Personality, Stress and the Determination of Smoking Behaviour in Adolescents
• 35 Personality Assessment in Organizations
• Subject Index
• Name Index