Individual Differences and Personality

Designed for upper level undergraduate and graduate level students inquiring about the psychology of personality and individual differences, this textbook focuses on the personality traits and related characteristics that make each person unique. Basic principles of personality measurement are explained and crucial scientific questions of personality psychology are examined via a reader-friendly style and various boxes of interesting asides to keep students' attention.

Unlike lower-level texts written from a historical perspective that concentrate solely on theory, this textbook summarizes and integrates the contemporary research available about individual differences.

• Emphasizes current research

Autorentext

Michael C. Ashton is a professor of psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1998. As a grad student in the late 1990s, together with Kibeom Lee, he did some cross-cultural research to find out whether the "Big Five personality dimensions found in North America could be recovered in other cultures. Using their own work and that of other researchers, they found that there were actually six personality dimensions. The "new one was the H factor, or the Honesty-Humility Factor, was discovered and is now considered one of the six dimensions of human personality. In addition to the second edition of the textbook, Individual Differences and Personality, he is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals, and co-authored with Kibeom Lee The H Factor of Personality.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts in Psychological Measurement
Chapter 2: Personality Traits and the Inventories That Measure Them
Chapter 3: Personality Structure: Classifying Traits
Chapter 4: Developmental Change and Stability of Personality Traits
Chapter 5: Biological Bases of Personality
Chapter 6: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality
Chapter 7: The Evolution of Personality Variation
Chapter 8: Personality Disorders
Chapter 9: Personality and Life Outcomes
Chapter 10: Mental Ability
Chapter 11: Religion and Politics
Chapter 12: Sexuality
Conclusion
References