Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. John, Oliver P.

Description

1. xxiii, 578 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subject

1. Personality > Textbooks
2. Personality
3. Personality
4. Persönlichkeitspsychologie
5. Persönlichkeitstheorie
6. Persoonlijkheidstheorieën

Genre/Form

1. Textbooks.

Contents

1. Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories -- Why the Study of Personality? -- Defining Personality -- Personality Theory as an Answer to the Questions of What, How, and Why -- Structure -- Process -- Growth and Development -- Genetic Determinants -- Environmental Determinants -- Relations Between Genetic and Environmental Determinants -- Psychopathology and Behavior Change -- Important Issues in Personality Theory -- Philosophical View of the Person -- Internal and External Determinants of Behavior -- Consistency Across Situations and Over Time -- The Unity of Behavior and the Concept of the Self -- Varying States of Awareness and the Concept of the Unconscious -- Relationships Among Cognition, Affect, and Overt Behavior -- The Influence of the Past, Present, and Future on Behavior -- Evaluation of Theories -- Comprehensiveness -- Parsimony -- Research Relevance -- Theory and the Study of Personality -- The Scientific Study of People -- The Data of Personality Psychology -- Goals of Research: Reliability, Validity, Ethical Behavior -- Reliability -- Validity -- The Ethics of Research and Public Policy -- Three General Approaches to Research -- Case Studies and Clinical Research -- Reactions to Battle Stress -- Laboratory Studies and Experimental Research -- Learned Helplessness -- Personality Questionnaires and Correlational Research -- Internal-External Locus of Control -- Causal Attributions: Explanatory Style -- Evaluating Alternative Research Approaches.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.