The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment

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. Edited 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.

Table of Contents:
Volumen 1: Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Personality Theories and Models 1 Personality Theories and Models: An Overview - Gregory J. Boyle, Gerald Matthews and Donald H. Saklofske PART I EXPLANATORY MODELS FOR PERSONALITY 2 Psychophysiological and Biochemical Correlates of Personality - Robert M. Stelmack and Thomas H. Rammsayer 3 Personality and Information Processing: A Cognitive-Adaptive Theory - Gerald Matthews 4 Explanatory Models of Personality: Social-Cognitive Theories and the Knowledge-and-Appraisal Model of Personality Architecture - Daniel Cervone 5 Developmental Perspectives - Jens B. Asendorpf 6 Personality: Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Chi-Yue Chiu, Young-Hoon Kim and Wendy W.N. Wan 7 Behavioral Genetic Studies of Personality: An Introduction and Review of the Results of 50+ Years of Research - Andrew M. Johnson, Philip A. Vernon and Amanda R. Feiler 8 Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality Psychology - Richard L. Michalski and Todd K. Shackelford 9 Modern Personality Theories: What Have We Gained? What Have We Lost? - John B. Campbell PART II COMPREHENSIVE TRAIT MODELS 10 Eysenck′s Model of Individual Differences - Kieron P. O′Connor 11 J.A. Gray′s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of Personality - Alan D. Pickering and Philip J. Corr 12 Simplifying the Cattellian Psychometric Model - Gregory J. Boyle 13 Empirical and Theoretical Status of the Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits - Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, Jr. 14 Critique of the Five-Factor Model of Personality - Gregory J. Boyle PART III KEY TRAITS: PSYCHOBIOLOGY 15 Approach and Avoidance Temperaments - Andrew J. Elliot and Todd M. Thrash 16 Biological Substrate of Personality Traits Associated with Aggression - Marijn Lijffijt, Alan C. Swann and F. Gerard Moeller 17 Psychoticism and Impulsivity - David Rawlings and Sharon Dawe 18 Personality and Sensation Seeking - Marvin Zuckerman 19 Schizotypal Personality Models - Melissa J. Green, Gregory J. Boyle and Adrian Raine PART IV KEY TRAITS: SELF-REGULATION AND STRESS 20 Anxiety Revisited: Theory, Research, Applications - Moshe Zeidner 21 A Multidimensional, Hierarchical Model of Self-Concept: An Important Facet of Personality - Herbert W. Marsh 22 Optimism and Pessimism as Personality Variables Linked to Adjustment - Rita Chang, Edward C. Chang, Lawrence J. Sanna and Robert L. Hatcher 23 Self-Consciousness and Similar Personality Constructs - Jakob Smári, Daníel Ólason and Ragnar P. Ólafsson 24 Personality and the Coping Process - James D.A. Parker and Laura M. Wood PART V NEW TRAIT AND DYNAMIC TRAIT CONSTRUCTS 25 Motivational Traits: New Directions and Measuring Motives with the Multi-Motive Grid (MMG) - Thomas A. Langens and Heinz-Dieter Schmalt 26 Processes on the Borderline Between Cognitive Abilities and Personality: Confidence and its Realism - Lazar Stankov and Sabina Kleitman 27 Culture: Ways of Thinking and Believing - Lazar Stankov and Jihyun Lee 28 Emotional Intelligence - Elizabeth J. Austin, James D.A. Parker, K.V. Petrides and Donald H. Saklofske PART VI APPLICATIONS 597 29 Personality Disorders and the DSM: A Critical Review - Mary L. Malik, Brynne E. Johannsen and Larry E. Beutler 30 Personality and Treatment Planning for Psychotherapy: The Systematic Treatment Selection Model - Gary Groth-Marnat, Elisa Gottheil, Weiling Liu, David A. Clinton and Larry E. Beutler 31 Personality and Health: Current Evidence, Potential Mechanisms, and Future Directions - Paula G. Williams, Timothy W. Smith and Matthew R. Cribbet 32 Anxiety, Depression, and Anger: Core Components of Negative Affect in Medical Populations - Ephrem Fernandez and Robert D. Kerns 33 Personality and Alcohol Use - Manuel I. Ibáñez, María A. Ruipérez, Helena Villa, Jorge Moya and Generós Ortet 34 Personality, Stress and the Determination of Smoking Behaviour in Adolescents - Donald G. Byrne and Jason Mazanov 35 Personality Assessment in Organizations - Robert P. Tett and Neil D. Christiansen Volume 2: Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Personality Measurement and 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 Comrey 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

About the Author :
Professor Boyle has spent over three decades undertaking quantitative research in the field of psychometrics, as related to the measurement of individual differences in personality, intelligence, and motivation, as well as undertaking studies within the fields of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and educational psychology. In more recent years, he has applied his extensive research skills to studies within the broad fields of medical/health psychology, and has undertaken many studies within the area of women's health. Lately, he has focused his attention more on research topics pertaining to men's health. My research focuses on the study of individual differences with an emphasis on personality and intelligence, including emotional intelligence. These studies and resulting publications are theoretical and practical as well as correlational and experimental. The opportunity for cross-cultural studies has significantly broadened the scope of this research. Also, my recent research interests in emotional intelligence, including emotions and social cognition is motivated by the current emphasis on prevention, resiliency, psychological health, and building capacity. Publications of some of my more recent books, book chapters and journal articles are included in the publications link.

Review :
"Boyle, Matthews, and Saklofske gathered an impressive array of contributors for this handbook. Their first assumption, stated on very first page, is that "most researchers in the area share a set of common core beliefs supported by empirical evidence." This is such an amazing turnaround from Walter Mischel′s critique of personality psychology in his Personality and Assessment (1968). It is clear from this handbook that personality psychology does not have a clear, unifying theme. The editors and contributors make the case (whether intentionally or not) that this has much more to do with the subject matter--human personality--than with any weakness in the field or its practitioners. The claim that researchers in personality psychology share a set of common beliefs and that empirical evidence supports these beliefs is worth exploring, and the contributors do a solid job of this. Volume 1 outlines major theories of personality (including newer areas of interest such as psychobiology and self-regulation), and volume 2 thoroughly critiques and analyzes a broad range of measurement instruments and methodological approaches in the study of personality psychology. This is a very important handbook for those currently working in personality psychology or planning to pursue a career in the field. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals."