The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Models and Theories
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The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Models and Theories
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Volume 1, Models and Theories of The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (EPID) is organized into four volumes that look at the many likenesses and differences between individuals. Each of these four volumes focuses on a major content area in the study of personality psychology and individuals' differences. The first volume, Models and Theories, surveys the significant classic and contemporary viewpoints, perspectives, models, and theoretical approaches to the study of personality and individuals' differences (PID). The second volume on Measurement and Assessment examines key classic and modern methods and techniques of assessment in the study of PID. Volume III, titled Personality Processes and Individuals Differences, covers the important traditional and current dimensions, constructs, and traits in the study of PID. The final volume discusses three major categories: clinical contributions, applied research, and cross-cultural considerations, and touches on topics such as culture and identity, multicultural identities, cross-cultural examinations of trait structures and personality processes, and more.
- Each volume contains approximately 100 entries on personality and individual differences written by a diverse international panel of leading psychologists
- Covers significant classic and contemporary personality psychology models and theories, measurement and assessment techniques, personality processes and individuals differences, and research
- Provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the field of personality psychology
The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences is an important resource for all psychology students and professionals engaging in the study and research of personality.
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- ABEPP. See American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology
- Abma, T. A. 365
- Abraham, Karl 67
- accuracy, theory of 393–5. See also Realistic Accuracy Model
- acquaintanceship effect 345
- active listening, in individual psychology 114
- actual self 69
- adaptation
- environmental, Cattell’s trait theory lexical analysis and 137
- hedonic, of SWB 40, 358
- observable phenomena of motivational control and resourceful adaptation 18
- adaptations
- characteristic, McAdams on 83, 85, 288–9
- evolutionary psychology and 186, 209
- phenotypes and 186
- positive, resilience and 357–9
- ADHD, frequency-dependent selection and 192
- Adler, Alfred, individual psychology of 111–14
- affection, as neurotic trend 68
- affective channel, for self-efficacy 377
- affectothymia-sizothymia (warm-cool orientation), Cattell’s trait theory lexical analysis and 137
- age-based rejection sensitivity 353
- Age Differences in Personality Structure (Costa and McCrae) 26
- agency
- interpersonal circumplex and 141–5
- McAdams and 84
- aggression
- in animal personalities 117–18, 119, 121
- Baumeister on 14
- deindividuation and 3...