
Optimal Human Being
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Optimal Human Being features a multi-level model that moves from biologically based levels of analysis to higher, socially based levels, and demonstrates how these different levels interact to determine behavior. The author then proposes a new way of looking at personality by examining four "tiers": organismic foundations, personality traits, goals/intentions, and self-concepts, and demonstrates how these levels relate to the state of optimal human being. The book concludes with two higher levels of analysis relevant to personality-social interaction and culture-and proposes a new profile of optimal human being.
Intended for researchers and students in social and personality, clinical, developmental, and industrial psychology and other social sciences, the book will also serve as a supplement in a variety of courses including personality, positive psychology, well being, personal development, and motivation.
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"...proposes a novel conceptual framework for personality psychology and its relation to other human sciences."-Book News
"The book provides a well-documented argument for an integration of ideas from the human sciences....exceptionally well referenced, and includes both an author and a subject index, making it especially useful as a supplemental textbook."
-Journal of Occupational Science
"...this book provides a valuable organizational framework for conceptualizing positive psychology as it relates to personality research."
-Journal of Personality Assessment
"Ken Sheldon takes on what is arguably the most important question in all of the social sciences: What is optimal human living? The answers he provides are convincing, and they are grounded in solid empirical research. Sheldon offers a compelling psychological model for understanding the different levels of personality and situating the person within a complex biological and cultural context...a conceptual tour de force that should be read by academics, researchers, clinicians, and others who look to psychological science to make sense of human nature."
-Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
"Ken Sheldon proposes a model to integrate the human sciences with the biological and physical sciences....this convincing scholarly effort derives a value-free view of optimal functioning from the theoretical model."
-Ed Diener, Ph.D.
Alumni Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign
" The author...presents the nuances and intricacies of many theories better than the originators of the theories themselves....The book should be required reading for professors and students interested in personality and/or optimal human functioning..."
-Richard Koestner, Ph.D.
McGill University
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