Personality as an Affect-Processing System: Toward an Integrative Theory

ISBN-13: 9780805839128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Jack Block;Block

Opis

This work looks at debates and finds common ground on which to construct an integrative model on personality. The author elaborates his vision of personality as an adaptive system that enables the individual to maintain equilibrium in an environment that is both threatening and engaging. Taking in and organizing information and maintaining nondisruptive levels of anxiety while responding to outer and inner demands are the tasks of this system, which consists of a perceptual apparatus and a control apparatus operating in delicate balance. After presenting his model of personality, the author discusses its intellectual history and its connections to major current alternatives.

Recenzje

"This book represents Block's attempt to integrate and expand the ideas that have stimulated him throughout his career....the book is ultimately very thought-provoking and filled with ideas that are resilient in their enduring relevance and broad applicability to the study of personality."
—Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction and Orientation. Some Logical, Psycho-Logical, and Definitional Matters. Theoretical Orientation and Aspiration. A First Characterization of the Personality System. A Beginning Discussion of Drive, Percept, and Anxiety. Drives, Tension, and Control. Percept, Environment, and Perceptualizing. Closing the Ring. Clinical Implications. Connections to Theoretical Alternatives. Prescript: Developmental Aspects of Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency.

O autorze

Block, Jack