Handbook of personality : theory and research /
edited by Lawrence A. Pervin.
- New York : Guilford Press, �1990.
- xiv, 738 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief history of modern personality theory / Psychoanalytic approaches to personality / The "big five" factor taxonomy : dimensions of personality in the natural language and in questionnaires / Advances in Cattellian personality theory / Personality dispositions revisited and revised : a view after three decades / Personality, cognition, and purposive behavior / Cognitive-experiential self-theory / Personality development from an interactional perspective / Behavioral genetics and personality / Biological dimensions of personality / Self-knowledge and social development in early life / Personality, social psychology, and person-situation relations : standards and knowledge activation as a common language / The disorders of personality / Personality change and psychotherapy / The semiotic subject of cultural psychology / Personality and private experience : individual variations in consciousness and in attention to subjective phenomena / The psychological unconscious / Attribution in personality psychology / Sex, gender, and the individual / Perspectives on competence motivation / Personality continuity and change across the life course / The interpersonal self / Emotion and adaptation / Personality and health / Personality and politics / Personality assessment : a conceptual survey / Personality theory and research : prospects for the future / Lawrence A. Pervin -- Drew Westen -- Oliver P. John -- Raymond B. Cattell -- Walter Mischel -- Nancy Cantor and Sabrina Zirkel -- Seymour Epstein -- David Magnusson -- Robert Plomin, Heather M. Chipuer, and John C. Loehlin -- Hans J. Eysenck -- Michael Lewis -- E. Tory Higgins -- Theodore Millon -- Stanley B. Messer and Seth Warren -- Richard A. Schweder and Maria A. Sullivan -- Jerome L. Singer and George A. Bonanno -- John F. Kihlstrom -- Bernard Weiner -- Richard D. Ashmore -- Richard Koestner and David C. McClelland -- Avshalom Caspi and Daryl J. Bem -- Hazel Markus and Susan Cross -- Craig A. Smith and Richard S. Lazarus -- Richard J. Contrada, Howard Leventhal, and Ann O'Leary -- Dean Keith Simonton -- Leonard G. Rorer -- Lawrence A. Pervin.