Personality: Theory and Research

Name: Personality: Theory and Research
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by Daniel Cervone, Lawrence A. Pervin

15th Edition

Publisher: Wiley

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Print ISBN	9781119891673
eText ISBN	9781119891635
Publisher	Wiley
Publishing Year	2022
Edition	15th Edition
Language	English
Pages	560

Personality: Theory and Research, 15th Edition offers systematic academic coverage of core psychological principles, empirical research methods, and conceptual models. Co-authored by Daniel Cervone and Lawrence A. Pervin, this foundational textbook delivers theory-by-theory analysis of personality structures, internal processes, and individual development across major historical and modern academic frameworks.

The text synthesizes major theoretical perspectives to clarify how individual behavioral patterns, thoughts, and emotional dynamics are conceptualized and measured. Readers examine psychodynamic theory and psychoanalysis alongside phenomenological theory and self theory, moving into trait theories of personality to compare how different traditions define personal consistency, motivation, and individual variation.

To accommodate different syllabus arrangements and teaching preferences, the text adopts a modular structure giving instructors flexibility when ordering individual personality theories. This adaptable format supports academic coursework for undergraduate students of psychology and advanced students of psychology, while offering a clear reference for psychology practitioners, professionals, and researchers.

Chapter 1: Personality Theory: From Observation to Scientific Explanation
- • Defining Personality
- • Three Goals for the Personality Theorist
- • Answering Questions about Persons Scientifically: Understanding Structures, Processes, Development, and Therapeutic Change
- • Important Issues in Personality Theory
- • Evaluating Personality Theories
- • The Personality Theories: An Introduction
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 2: The Scientific Study of People
- • Personality Research: The Data
- • Personality Research: Research Designs
- • Contemporary Developments in Personality Research: Social Media and Language-Based Assessments
- • Personality Assessment and the Case of Jim
- • Vive la Différence: Conceptual Distinctions in Personality Research
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 3: A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
- • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): A View of the Theorist
- • Freud's View of the Person
- • Freud's View of the Science of Personality
- • Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 4: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
- • Psychodynamic Personality Assessment: Projective Tests
- • Psychopathology
- • Psychological Change
- • The Case of Jim
- • Related Theoretical Conceptions
- • Contemporary Developments in Personality Theory: Neuropsychoanalysis
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 5: A Phenomenological Theory: The Personality Theory of Rogers
- • Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987): A View of the Theorist
- • Rogers's View of the Person
- • Rogers's View of the Science of Personality
- • The Personality Theory of Carl Rogers
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 6: Rogers's Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
- • Clinical Applications
- • The Case of Jim
- • Related Conceptions: Human Potential, Positive Psychology, and Existentialism
- • Developments in Research: The Self and Authenticity
- • Contemporary Developments in Personality Theory: Personality Systems Interaction Theory and the Integrated Self
- • Personality Systems Interaction Theory
- • Illustrative Research
- • Implications for Rogers's Self Theory of Personality
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 7: Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
- • A View of the Trait Theorists
- • Trait Theory's View of the Person
- • Trait Theory's View of the Science of Personality
- • Trait Theories of Personality: Basic Perspectives Shared by Trait Theorists
- • The Trait Theory of Gordon W. Allport (1897-1967)
- • Identifying Primary Trait Dimensions: Factor Analysis
- • The Factor-Analytic Trait Theory of Raymond B. Cattell (1905-1998)
- • The Three-Factor Theory of Hans J. Eysenck (1916-1997)
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 8: Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Developments
- • On Taxonomies of Personality
- • The Five-Factor Model of Personality: Research Evidence
- • Five-Factor Theory
- • Maybe We Missed One? The Six-Factor Model
- • Cross-cultural Research: Are the Big Five Dimensions Universal?
- • Contemporary Developments in Trait Theory: Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory
- • The Case of Jim--Factor-Analytic Trait-Based Assessment
- • The Person-Situation Controversy
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 9: Behaviorism and The Learning Approaches To Personality
- • Behaviorism's View of the Person
- • Behaviorism's View of the Science of Personality
- • Watson, Pavlov, and Classical Conditioning
- • Skinner's Theory of Operant Conditioning
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 10: A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly's Personal Construct Theory of Personality
- • George A. Kelly (1905-1966): A View of the Theorist
- • Kelly's View of the Science of Personality
- • Kelly's View of the Person
- • The Personality Theory of George A. Kelly
- • Clinical Applications
- • The Case of Jim
- • Related Points of View and Recent Developments
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 11: Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
- • Relating Social-Cognitive Theory to Historically Prior Theories
- • A View of the Theorists
- • Social-Cognitive Theory's View of the Person
- • Social-Cognitive Theory's View of the Science of Personality
- • Social-Cognitive Theory of Personality: Structure
- • Social-Cognitive Theory of Personality: Process
- • Social-Cognitive Theory of Growth and Development
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 12: Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Developments
- • Beliefs About the Self and Self-Schemas
- • Standards of Evaluation and Self-Discrepancies
- • Contemporary Developments in Personality Theory: The KAPA Model
- • Clinical Applications
- • Stress, Coping, and Cognitive Therapy
- • The Case of Jim
- • Critical Evaluation
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 13: Culture, Interpersonal Relations, and the Social Foundations of Personality and Its Development
- • Persons in Cultures
- • Broad Cultural Differences: Western and Eastern Views of Self
- • Societies within Cultures: Social Practices and Personality Development
- • Personality Development in Socioeconomic Context
- • Personality Functioning Across the Life Span
- • Interpersonal Relationships
- • Putting Personality in Context into Practice
- • Summary
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 14: Genes, Brains, and Biological Bases of Personality and its Development
- • Temperament
- • Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, and Personality
- • Mood, Emotion, and the Brain
- • Plasticity: Biology as Both Cause and Effect
- • Neuroscientific Investigations of "Higher-Level" Psychological Functions
- • Summary
- • Major Concepts
- • Review
Chapter 15: Assessing Personality Theory and Research
- • The Personality Theories: Similarities, Differences, and Integration
- • What an Integrative Theory Might Look Like
- • How Did They Do? A Critical Evaluation of the Personality Theories and Their Research
- • A Final Summing Up: Theories as Toolkits
- • Review