An Introduction to Theories of Personality

An Introduction to Theories of Personality
Author: Robert Ewen B
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2003-04-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135629889

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction to Theories of Personality

Introduction to Theories of Personality
Author: Calvin S. Hall
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1985-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780471089063

A comprehensive, clearly written text designed for undergradauate courses in introductory personality. Describes and interprets the major theories of personality. Emphasizes each theory's significance and application. Includes figures, tables, summaries, and boxed inserts featuring biographies and applications of theory to research.

An Introduction to Theories of Personality

An Introduction to Theories of Personality
Author: Robert B. Ewen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317740726

This 7th Edition helps students unravel the mysteries of human behavior through its highly readable introduction to the ideas of the most significant personality theorists. Engaging biographical sketches begin each chapter, and unique capsule summaries help students review key concepts. Theories come alive through the inclusion of quotations from the theorists’ writings and numerous applications such as dream interpretation, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Significant changes in the 7th edition include an extended discussion of the practical applications of personality theory, with an emphasis on guidelines that can help people increase their self-knowledge, make better decisions, and live more fulfilling lives. Fictionalized but true-to-life examples illustrating the perils of inadequate self-knowledge include college students, parents, terrorists, business executives, and politicians, while other examples show the positive outcomes that can result from a better understanding of one’s unconscious. This 7th edition also includes a more extensive discussion of how a lack of self-understanding caused difficulties for such noted theorists as Freud and Erikson, and a new section that explains how behavior can be strongly influenced by the situation as well as by one’s personality. Finally, a new interactive web site provides practice test questions and other topics of interest.

Theories of Personality

Theories of Personality
Author: Duane P. Schultz
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780534551070

This revision of the Schultz's popular text surveys the field, presenting theory-by-theory coverage of the major theorists who represent the psychoanalytic, neopsychoanalytic, life-span, trait, humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and social-learning approaches, as well as clinical and experimental work. Where warranted, the authors show how the development of certain theories was influenced by events in a theorist's personal and professional life. This thoroughly revised Seventh Edition now incorporates more examples, tables, and figures to help bring the material to life for students. The new content in this edition reflects the dynamism in the field. The text explores how race, gender, and culture issues figure in the study of personality and in personality assessment. In addition, a final integrative chapter looks at the study of personality theories and suggests conclusions that can be drawn from the many theorists' work.

Beneath the Mask

Beneath the Mask
Author: Christopher F. Monte
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Total Pages: 758
Release: 1980
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Theories of Personality

Theories of Personality
Author: David Lester
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429643667

Designed as a text for both graduate and undergraduate students, this book, originally published in 1995, presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour – concepts based on psychological processes and ‘structures’ within the mind. In this context, a unique treatment of personality theory is introduced. It focuses on Freud, Kelly and Angyal: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality based on desires, Kelly’s personal construct theory for thinking, and Angyal’s holistic concepts of personality. Each theory is given a detailed analysis in separate chapters. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is cast as a theory of motivation, Kelly’s personal construct theory as a theory of cognition, and then it is noted that there is no comprehensive theory of personality based on emotion. Although Angyal’s holistic theory is rarely described in modern textbooks, Lester includes this because none of the other holistic theorists rival Angyal in their range of hypothetical constructs or descriptive terms. Then, in sections dealing with alternative viewpoints, the author shows how other personality theorists actually endorse and expand upon the ideas expressed by the aforementioned three, albeit with different terminology. Recognizing the diversity of holistic views in theories of personality, several counterpoint chapters are devoted to the holistic ideas. Lester separates these into three major areas: theorists who have focused on the split in the mind between the real and ideal self; recent theorists who explore the possibility that the mind is a ‘multiplicity of selves’; and theorists who, though not having their viewpoints sufficiently articulated in the literature, are still well established in the history of psychology. Other features include a presentation of the material in modern viewpoints, instead of the precise and perhaps outdated style as written by the individual theorists, and boxed highlights in each section, providing students with practical capsule information for easy reading.

Theories of Personality

Theories of Personality
Author: Duane Schultz
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2004-07-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Presenting coverage of the major theorists who represent different aspects of the approaches to personality, this text also looks at the study of personality theories, suggesting conclusions that can be drawn from many theorists' work.

Beneath the Mask

Beneath the Mask
Author: Christopher F. Monte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1977
Genre: Personality
ISBN: 9780030336966

Theories of Personality

Theories of Personality
Author: Jess Feist
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Personality
ISBN: 9780072316797

Accurate and authoritative, Theories of Personality by Jess and Gregory Feist presents 23 leading theories of personality in a thorough, interesting and logical manner. The book begins with an introductory chapter designed to acquaint students with the meaning of personality and provide them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory and its crucial contributions to science. The next seventeen chapters present twenty-three major theories with a fresh approach and a more complete view encompassing, a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research and applications to real life. When appropriate, the authors point out ways in which the theorists' life experiences may have helped shape her or his theory.