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Offers an introduction to the various theories of personality. Providing psychological history, this book illustrates various theories and analyzes the strengths and limitations of different approaches.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories.
Chapter 2. The Scientific Study of People.
Chapter 3. A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality.
Chapter 4. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 5. A Phenomenological Theory: Carl Roger's Person-Centered Theory of Personality.
Chapter 6. Rogers's Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 7. Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
Chapter 8. Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model;
Applications and Evaluation of Trait Approaches to Personality.
Chapter 9. Biological Foundations of Personality.
Chapter 10. Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches To Personality.
Chapter 11. A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly's Personal Construct Theory of Personality.
Chapter 12. Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel.
Chapter 13. Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 14. Personality in Context: Iinterpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development Across the Course of Life.
Chapter 15. Assessing Personality Theory and Research.
