Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Marcus, Sander I.

Description

1. xiv, 397 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Seeks to change the status quo by providing an overall perspective on the relationship between personality and underachievement, and by giving precise descriptions of the different types of underachievers along with clear guidelines on how to diagnose each one. Focuses primarily on academic underachievers in high school and college.

Series statement

1. Wiley series on personality processes

Uniform title

1. Wiley series on personality processes

Subject

1. Underachievement
2. Underachievers > Mental health
3. Psychotherapy
4. Underachievers > Psychology
5. Difference (Psychology)
6. Achievement motivation
7. Academic achievement
8. Underachievement
9. Underachievers > Psychology
10. Achievement motivation
11. Academic achievement
12. Psychotherapy
13. Psychologie
14. Schulversagen
15. Studienabbrecher

Contents

1. Research on underachievement -- Variables which influence the achievement process -- Treatment approaches to underachievement -- The model of differential diagnosis -- The diagnostic interview -- Concepts of differential diagnosis -- The developmental theory model -- Research on the differential diagnostic model -- Nondifferential diagnostic research -- Differential diagnostic research -- Differential treatment research -- Personality types of underachievers -- The overanxious disorder underachiever -- The conduct disorder underachiever -- The academic problem underachiever -- The identity disorder underachiever -- The oppositional defiant disorder underachiever -- A final word on differential diagnosis and differential treatment.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 322-384.