Personality and Adaptation
Published on 1. January 1979
227 pages
978-0-08-086656-7 (ISBN)
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Personality and Adaptation
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P.J. Hettema
Personality and Adaptation
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10/1979
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- Front Cover
- Personality and Adaptation
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. CONCEPTIONS OF PERSONALITY: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
- 1.1 Early developments in personality psychology
- 1.2 Interactionism
- 1.3 Personality as process
- 1.4 Outline of an open-system conception of personality
- CHAPTER 2. ADAPTATION
- 2.1 Personality and adaptation: the classical conceptions
- 2.2 Synthetic evolution theory and adaptation
- 2.3 Psychological adaptation
- 2.4 The continuity of behavior
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER 3. INFORMATION
- 3.1 Culture and personality: a critical review
- 3.2 The interior of personality
- 3.3 Language, culture and information transmission
- 3.4 The situation
- 3.5 Information processing
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER 4. CONTROL
- 4.1 The dimensionality of directed action
- 4.2 The control-paradigm
- 4.3 Disequilibrium and short-term adaptation
- 4.4 Long-term adaptation
- CHAPTER 5. PERSONALITY
- 5.1 The open-system theory of personality
- 5.2 Individuality
- 5.3 Assessment and prediction: personality as a strategic-tactical coalition
- 5.4 Psychological adaptation and mental health
- Footnote
- REFERENCES
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
