Personality : theory and research / Daniel Cervone, Lawrence A. Pervin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Tenth editionDescription: xxii, 645 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0471742414
- 9780471742418
- Theory and research
- 155.2 22
- BF698 .P375 2008
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Pervin's name appears first on the earlier edition.
Prevised edition entered under Pervin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Personality theory : from everyday observations to systematic theories -- Ch. 2. The scientific study of people -- Ch. 3. A psychodynamic theory : Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality -- Ch. 4. Freud's psychoanalytic theory : applications, delated theoretical conceptions, and contemporary research -- Ch. 5. A phenomenological theory : Carl Rogers's person-centered theory of personality -- Ch. 6. Rogers's phenomenological theory : applications, related theoretical conceptions, and contemporary research -- Ch. 7. Trait theories of personality : Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell -- Ch. 8. Trait theory : the five-factor model; applications and evaluation of trait approaches to personality -- Ch. 9. Biological foundations of personality -- Ch. 10. Behaviorism and the learning approaches to personality -- Ch. 11. A cognitive theory : George A. Kelly's personal construct theory of personality -- Ch. 12. Social-cognitive theory : Bandura and Mischel -- Ch. 13. Social-cognitive theory : applications, related theoretical conceptions, and contemporary research -- Ch. 14. Personality in context : interpersonal relations, culture, and development across the course of life -- Ch. 15. Assessing personality theory and research.
Both scholarly and manageable, this text offers an unbiased introduction to the major theories of personality, and successfully integrates theory with research. The authors illustrate each theory with a case, and analyse the strengths and limitations of each approach.
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