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The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment
Personality Measurement and Testing (Volume 2)

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June 2008 | 744 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
A definitive, authoritative and up-to-date resource for anyone interested in the theories, models and assessment methods used for understanding the many factes of Human personality and individual differences

This brand new Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment 2-Volume Set constitutes an essential resource for shaping the future of the scientific foundation of personality research, measurement, and practice. There is need for an up-to-date and international Handbook that reviews the major contemporary personality models Vol. 1 and associated psychometric measurement instruments Vol. 2 that underpin the scientific study of this important area of individual differences psychology, and in these two Handbooks this is very much achieved.

Made unique by its depth and breadth the Handbooks are internationally edited and authored by Professors Gregory J. Boyle, Gerald Matthews, and Donald H. Saklofske and authored by internationally known academics, this work will be an important reference work for a host of researchers and practitioners in the fields of individual differences and personality assessment, clinical psychology, educational psychology, work and organizational psychology, health psychology and other applied fields as well.

Volume 2: Personality Measurement and Assessment.

Covers psychometric measurement of personality and has coverage of the following broad topics, listed by section heading:

" General Methodological Issues

" Multidimensional Personality Instruments

" Assessment of Biologically-Based Traits

" Assessment of Self-Regulative Traits

" Implicit, Projective And Objective Measures Of Personality

" Abnormal Personality Trait Instruments

" Applications of Psychological Testing

1 Personality Measurement and Testing: An Overview

Gregory J. Boyle, Gerald Matthews and Donald H. Saklofske
 
PART I GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
2 Measures of the Personality Factors Found Recurrently in Human Lexicons

Gerard Saucier
3 Cross-Cultural Personality Assessment

Fons J.R. van de Vijver and Dianne A. van Hemert
4 Measurement Issues Concerning a Personality Model Spanning Temperament, Character, and Experience

Chris J. Jackson
 
PART II MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY INSTRUMENTS
5 The California Psychological Inventory - 434- and 260-item Editions

Douglas P. Boer, Nicola J. Starkey and Andrea M. Hodgetts
6 The Comyrey Personality Scales

Andrew L. Comrey
7 The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)

Heather E.P. Cattell and Alan D. Mead
8 Contribution of Cattellian Personality Instruments

Gregory J. Boyle and Keith Barton
9 The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R)

Paul T. Costa, Jr. and Robert R. McCrae
10 The Eysenck Personality Measures: Fifty Years of Scale Development

Adrian Furnham, Sybil B.G. Eysenck and Donald H. Saklofske
11 Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ): An Operational Definition of the Alternative Five Factorial Model of Personality

Marvin Zuckerman
12 The HEXACO Model of Personality Structure

Michael C. Ashton and Kibeom Lee
13 Exploring Personality Through Test Construction: Development of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

Auke Tellegen and Niels G. Waller
 
PART III ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICALLY BASED TRAITS
14 Psychophysiological Window on Personality: Pragmatic and Philosophical Considerations

John J. Furedy
15 Psychophysiological Measurement of Personality

Eco de Geus and David L. Neumann
16 Genomic Imaging of Personality: Towards a Molecular Neurobiology of Impulsivity

Eliza Congdon and Turhan Canli
17 Temperament From a Psychometric Perspective: Theory and Measurement

Jan Strelau and Bogdan Zawadzki
 
PART IV ASSESSMENT OF SELF-REGULATIVE TRAITS
18 From Situation Assessment to Personality: Building a Social-Cognitive Model of a Person

Vivian Zayas, Donna D. Whitsett, Jenna J.Y. Lee, Nicole Wilson and Yuichi Shoda
19 The Angry Personality: A Representation on Six Dimensions of Anger Expression

Ephrem Fernandez
20 Interpersonal Theory and the Measurement of Interpersonal Constructs

Leonard M. Horowitz, Bulent Turan, Kelly R. Wilson and Pavel Zolotsev
21 Measuring Emotional Intelligence as a Mental Ability in Adults and Children

Susan E. Rivers, Marc A. Brackett and Peter Salovey
22 The Measurement of Emotional Intelligence: A Decade of Progress?

Richard D. Roberts, Ralf Schulze and Carolyn MacCann
 
PART V IMPLICIT, PROJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF PERSONALITY
23 The Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire and the Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire

Ryan Y. Hong and Sampo V. Paunonen
24 Using Implicit Association Tests for the Assessment of Implicit Personality Self-Concept

Konrad Schnabel, Jens B. Asendorpf and Anthony G. Greenwald
25 The Objective-Analytic Test Battery

James M. Schuerger
26 Behavioral Measures of Personality in Children

Ellen W. Rowe, Alyssa M. Perna and Randy W. Kamphaus
27 The Projective Assessment of Personality Structure and Pathology

Mark A. Blais and Matthew R. Baity
 
PART VI ABNORMAL PERSONALITY TRAIT INSTRUMENTS
28 Modern Applications of the MMPI/MMPI-2 in Assessment

Edward Helmes
29 The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP)

W. John Livesley and Roseann M. Larstone
30 The Personality Assessment Inventory

Leslie C. Morey and Suman Ambwani
31 The Assessment of Clinical Disorders Within Raymond Cattell's Personality Model 646

Samuel E. Krug
32 The Logic and Methodology of the Millon Inventories

Theodore Millon

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter One PDF


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