Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials

ISBN-13: 9780521587488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 506 str.

Gian Vittorio Caprara; Daniel Cervone

Opis

Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials is a comprehensive survey of contemporary research and theory in personality psychology. The book provides balanced coverage of biological, cognitive, affective, social, and interpersonal determinants of personality functioning and individual differences. The authors organize these factors within an overarching theoretical framework that highlights the dynamic transactions between individuals and the sociocultural environment, and the human capacities for self-reflection and self-regulation. The book's broad, integrative approach to the study of personality reveals how advances throughout the psychological sciences illuminate the classic questions of personality psychology.

Recenzje

'This is a big book. In every sense … It is the scope of the book that provides the main 'bigness'. … There is no other book like it in the field. Psychological Medicine

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction to Personality Psychology: Prologue: personality psychology as an integrative discipline; 1. The domain of personality psychology; 2. Origins, history, and progress; Part II. Description and Explanation: 3. Individual differences: traits, temperament, and intelligence; 4. Personality coherence and individual uniqueness: interactionism and social-cognitive systems; Part III. The Development of Personality: 5. Personality development across the course of life; 6. Genetics, brain systems, and personality; 7. Interpersonal relations; 8. Social contexts and social constructions: work, education, family, and gender; Part IV. The Dynamics of Personality: 9. Knowledge structures and interpretive processes; 10. Affective experience: emotions and mood; 11. Unconscious processes and conscious experience; 12. Motivation and self-regulation; Part V. Epilogue.