Managing Personality

ISBN-13: 9780202362601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 340 str.

Donald Fiske

Opis

Managing Personality is grounded in the conviction that scientific understanding of personality requires measurement in order to describe phenomena in an objective, systematic fashion and to test theories. Many have argued that science progresses with improvements in instrumentation and methodology. Th e critical issue in the study of personality is being sure that each concept or theoretical term is measurable, with procedures that can be specifi ed and observed. Th is book is concerned with tactics and strategies for improving the relationships between ideas and observations.

Spis treści

One: What Do We Measure?; Introduction; One: The Roots of Personality Measurement; Two: Orientations and Themes; Three: Personality, Process, and Systematic Observations; Four: The Observational Data of Personology; Five: The Modes of Measuring Personality; Six: The Specification of Constructs; Two: Measuring; Introduction; Seven: Some Fundamentals of Measurement; Eight: Indices: Their Models and Their Evaluation; Nine: Behaving and Changing; Ten: A Human Being Takes a Test; Eleven: The Specificity of Behaviors and of Measurements; Twelve: Measuring a Personality Construct Today; Thirteen: Prospects and Issues

O autorze

Donald W. Fiske