Brief Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Personality Psychology
2. Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design
PART I
The Dispositional Domain
3. Traits and Trait Taxonomies
4. the oretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
5. Personality Dispositions over Time: Stability, Coherence, and Change
PART II
The Biological Domain
6. Genetics and Personality
7. Physiological Approaches to Personality
8. Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality
PART III
The Intrapsychic Domain
9. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
10. Psychoanalytic Approaches: Contemporary Issues
11. Motives and Personality
PART IV
The Cognitive/Experiential Domain
12. Cognitive Topics in Personality
13. Emotion and Personality
14. Approaches to the Self
PART V
The Social and Cultural Domain
15. Personality and Social Interaction
16. Sex, Gender, and Personality
17. Culture and Personality
PART VI
The Adjustment Domain
18. Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health
19. Disorders of Personality
CONCLUSION
20. Summary and Future Directions
Chapter
Introduction to Personality Psychology
Personality Defined
Personality Is the Set of Psychological Traits . . .
And Mechanisms . . .
Within the Individual . . .
That Are Organized and Relatively Enduring . . .
And That Influence . . .
His or Her Interactions with . . .
And Adaptations to . . .
The Environment
Three Levels of Personality Analysis
Human Nature
Individual and Group Differences
Individual Uniqueness
A Fissure in the Field
Grand Theories of Personality
Contemporary Research in Personality
Six Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature
Dispositional Domain
Biological Domain
Intrapsychic Domain
Cognitive-Experiential Domain
Social and Cultural Domain
Adjustment Domain
The Role of Personality theory
Standards for Evaluating Personality theories
Is h ere a Grand Ultimate and True theory of Personality?
Key Terms
Chapter
Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design
Sources of Personality Data
Self-Report Data (S-Data)
Observer-Report Data (O-Data)
Test Data (T-Data)
Life-Outcome Data (L-Data)
Issues in Personality Assessment
Evaluation of Personality Measures
Reliability
Response Sets
Validity
Generalizability
Research Designs in Personality
Experimental Methods
Correlational Studies
Case Studies
When to Use Experimental, Correlational, and Case Study Designs
Summary and Evaluation
Key Terms
PART I
The Dispositional Domain
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