Psychology of Personality

Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications introduces students to many important figures in the field, including Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson, Maslow, Allport, Cattell, Bandura, Mischel, and others. The book not only covers classic issues and research in personality, but also looks at genetics and personality, neurological considerations in personality, the evolutionary perspective, the Big Five model of personality, and other contemporary issues. The 3rd Edition reflects significant changes in the field but retains much of the information and special features that made it a textbook from which instructors found it easy to teach and students found it easy to learn.

A Message to Students (and Instructors, Too): A Personalized Preface xxiii Acknowledgments: Some Words of Thanks xxix Part I The Scope and Methods of Personality: An Introduction to the Psychology of Personality 1 1 The Psychology of Personality: An Overview 3 2 Personality Assessment: An Introduction to the Measurement of Personality 35 Part II The Intrapsychic Viewpoints: The Expression of Personality as Dynamic Processes 71 3 The Psychodynamic Viewpoint: Forging Personality Out of Conflict Resolution 73 4 The Direct Reactions to the Psychodynamic Viewpoint: Classic Responses and Contemporary Considerations 123 5 Extending the Reactions to the Psychodynamic Viewpoint: Contemporary Responses and Considerations 169 Part III The Trait Viewpoints: The Psychological Units and Underlying Structure of Personality 219 6 The Classic Trait Viewpoint: Psychological Dispositions of Personality 221 7 The Elaboration of the Trait Viewpoint: Contemporary Considerations 255 Part IV The Biological Viewpoints: The Biological Processes of Personality 285 8 The Behavioral Genetics Viewpoint: The Basic Biological Unit of Personality 287 9 The Psychophysiological Viewpoint: Neurological and Cortical Considerations in the Study of Personality 309 10 The Evolutionary Viewpoint: Personality as an Adaptive Process 331 Part V The Cognitive/Intrapersonal Viewpoints: Selective Expressions of Personality Processes 367 11 The Social-Cognitive Viewpoint: Cognitive Processes and Personality 369 12 Self-Concept:The Core of Personality 417 13 Gender and Personality: A Special Topic in the Study of the Self-Concept 451 14 Anxiety: An All-Encompassing Intrapersonal Process of Personality 495 References 529 Index 605