Personality
Theory and Research
11th Edition
Published on 18. November 2009
Book
Hardback
624 pages
978-0-470-48506-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition has successfully captured the mystery of human personality and the efforts of psychologists to unravel it. Cervone enhances the coverage of contemporary researching findings in the field. The chapters have been streamlined to present more balanced coverage of the competing theories. It integrates theory and research to emphasize how theory and research inform one another. Psychologists will also find that rich case material is used to clearly illustrate the theory.
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Edition
11th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 257 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1192 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-48506-4 (9780470485064)
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Content
CHAPTER 1: PERSONALITY THEORY. CHAPTER 2: THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF PEOPLE. CHAPTER 3: A PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY: FREUD'S PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF PERSONALITY. CHAPTER 4: FREUD'S PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY: APPLICATIONS, RELATED THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH. CHAPTER 5: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY: CARL ROGERS'S PERSON-CENTERED THEORY. CHAPTER 6: ROGERS'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY: APPLICATIONS, RELATED THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH. CHAPTER 7: TRAIT THEORIES OF PERSONALITY: ALLPORT, EYSENCK, AND CATTELL. CHAPTER 8: TRAIT THEORY: THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; APPLICATIONS AND EVALUATION OF TRAIT APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY. CHAPTER 9: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY. CHAPTER 10: BEHAVIORISM AND THE LEARNING APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY. CHAPTER 11: A COGNITIVE THEORY: GEORGE A. KELLY'S PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY OF PERSONALITY. CHAPTER 12: SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: BANDURA AND MISCHEL. CHAPTER 13: SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: APPLICATIONS, RELATED THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH. CHAPTER 14: PERSONALITY IN CONTEXT: INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, CULTURE, AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE COURSE OF LIFE. CHAPTER 15: ASSESSING PERSONALITY THEORY AND RESEARCH. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. PHOTO CREDITS. NAME INDEX. SUBJECT INDEX.