The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology

The aim of this Handbook is to assist researchers, practitioners and students to regard the larger picture of personality research. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in personality, directed along lines of research that sometimes converge and sometimes seem to diverge.

Authors motivation in compiling this Handbook was to provide a general overview of the many areas of study that together define this branch of psychological science – that many of us consider to be becoming increasingly relevant and important in psychology more generally.

The contributors to this Handbook rose to their task admirably, producing relatively brief summaries of their respective areas of expertise in an accessible style that are intended to inform and stimulate, and at times provoke.

CONTENTS

Part I. Foundation Issues

  • Conceptual issues in personality theory
  • Personality psychology of situations
  • Personality: traits and situations
  • Personality and emotion
  • The characterization of persons: some fundamental conceptual issues

Part II. Personality Description and Measurement

  • The trait approach to personality
  • Methods of personality assessment
  • Structural models of personality
  • The Five-Factor Model of personality traits: consensus and controversy
  • Personality and intelligence

Part III. Development Health and Personality Change

  • Childhood temperament
  • The development of personality across the lifespan
  • Models of personality and health
  •  Attachment theory: I. Motivational, individual-differences and structural aspects
  •  Attachment theory: II. Developmental, psychodynamic and optimal-functioning aspects

Part IV. Biological Perspectives

  •  Evolutionary theories of personality
  • Animal models of personality and cross-species comparisons
  • Behavioural genetics: from variance to DNA
  • Neuroimaging of personality
  • Personality neuroscience: explaining individual differences in affect, behaviour and cognition
  •  The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality

Part V. Cognitive Perspectives

  • Semantic and linguistic aspects of personality
  • Personality and performance: cognitive processes and models
  • Self-regulation and control in personality functioning
  • Self-determination theory: a consideration of human motivational universal
  • Traits and the self: toward an integration
  •  Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system

Part VI. Social and Cultural Processes

  •  The storied construction of personality
  •  Personality and social relations
  • Personality and social support processes
  • Social pain and hurt feelings
  • Personality in cross-cultural perspective
  •  Culture and personality
  •  Personality and politics

Part VII. Psychopathology

  •  Mood and anxiety disorders: the hierarchical structure of personality and psychopathology
  •  Personality and psychosis
  • Diagnosis and assessment of disorders of personality
  •  Psychopathy and its measurement
  •  Personality and eating disorders
  •  Personality and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Part VIII. Applied Personality Psychology

  • Personality in school psychology
  • Personality in educational psychology
  • Personality at work
  • Workplace safety and personality
  • Personality and crime
  • Treatment of personality disorders

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