Personality Theories

• Author : Barbara Engler
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 March 2013

The Ninth Edition of PERSONALITY THEORIES continues to provide thorough coverage enhanced with helpful learning aids, opportunities for honing critical thinking skills, and integration of multicultural and gender-related issues. Each chapter focuses on one theory or group of theories and includes brief biographies that shed light on how the theories were formed. The author also provides criteria for evaluating each theory and cites current relevant research. A final chapter on Zen Buddhism covers a major non-Western theory of personality and

• Author : Willard B. Frick
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 15 June 1991

The author has revised this popular experiential workbook by adding Carl Jung and Karen Horney to his cast of major personality theorists -- Freud, Adler, Erikson, Bandura, Allport, Maslow, and Rogers -- who provide the context within which students explore aspects of their private experience. Through exercises, projects, and group activities, students are given the means to relate abstract theories and concepts to their own personality development and experience. Many exercises deal with private aspects of students' lives and are

• Author : Duane P. Schultz,Sydney Ellen Schultz
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2016

Filled with updated research and findings, Schultz and Schultz's THEORIES OF PERSONALITY, 11th Edition gives students a clear and cogent introduction to this dynamic field. Organized by theory, this popular text discusses major theorists who represent psychoanalytic, neopsychoanalytic, lifespan, trait, humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and social-learning approaches, while demonstrating the influence of events in theorists' personal and professional lives on the development of their theories. The text reviews current work on selected facets of personality including locus of control, sensation seeking,

• Author : C. Boeree
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 07 November 2017

Personality psychology is the study of the person. As such, it is arguably the broadest, most "philosophical", branch of psychology. It involves an examination of the effects of genetics, the physical environment, culture, upbringing, trauma, pathology and more. In as much as this is clearly a huge undertaking, it is as much a matter of competing theories as it is of empirical research. For this reason, it remains a tradition in the field to look at various attempts over the

• Author : Albert Ellis,Mike Abrams,Lidia Abrams
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 18 October 2021

Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.

• Author : Eric Shiraev
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 06 September 2016

Personality Theories: A Global View by leading scholar Eric Shiraev takes a dynamic, integrated, and cross-cultural approach to the study of personality. The text is organized around three general questions: Where did personality theories come from? How did the theorists study facts? How do we apply personality theories now? These questions provide a consistent focus on social context, interdisciplinary science, and applications. Going beyond traditional research from the Western tradition, the book also covers theories and studies rooted in the

• Author : Hiriyappa B
• Publisher : PublishDrive
• Release : 01 June 2018

Development of Personality and Its Theories text offers students a clear and engaging introduction to the study of personality. It provides a comprehensive road map toward understanding (1) what personality is; (2) determinants of personality (3) theories of personality and (4) how personality develops and changes over time in an organization.

• Author : Barbara Engler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 1995

[The book] is designed both to explain the major personality theories and to stimulate critical thinking about them. [The author] has pursued four main objectives. To present a clear and concise picture of the major features of each important personality theory ... To focus on significant ideas and themes that structure the content of the different personality theories ... To provide criteria to guide the evaluation of each theory ... To present activities, informed by the tenets of each theory, that will provide

• Author : Larry A. Hjelle,Daniel J. Ziegler
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release : 18 October 1992

A clear, thorough and focused introduction to the key theories of personality. This edition retains a distinctive presentation of theories in the framework of their underlying basic assumption. Up-to-date research and personal applications are covered in each chapter. Select theorists have been added, and a new chapter covers research methods, assessment techniques and ethical issues.

• Author : Robert Ewen B,Robert B. Ewen
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 21 January 2014

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

• Author : Nicholas S. DiCaprio
• Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
• Release : 18 October 1974

• Author : Donna Ashcraft
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 16 April 2014

The case studies in PERSONALITY THEORIES WORKBOOK, Sixth Edition, help students learn and apply personality theories to real-life examples of typical--rather than solely abnormal--behavior. While most personality texts present just the major concepts of personality theories, this unique workbook ensures that students thoroughly understand examples, and enables students to put theories into practice. The wide range of case studies is accompanied by application questions that guide students through an analysis of each case, prompting them to consider how a particular

• Author : Calvin S. Hall,Gardner Lindzey
• Publisher : Wiley
• Release : 31 March 1978

A leading text for over 20 years, covering all major theories. Provides historical settings, gives a brief biography of the theorist, discusses features in depth, describes characteristic investigations generated by the theory, and ends with a critical evaluation of each theory. New chapters examine contemporary psychoanalytic theory, featuring the work of Erik Erikson, and Eastern personality theory, featuring the personality theory inherent in Buddhism.

• Author : Calvin S. Hall,Gardner Lindzey,John B. Campbell
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
• Release : 18 October 1998

This is the best book on theories ever published. The fourth edition is theory-oriented and has been reorganized into four parts examing theories of psychodynamics, personality structure, growth and perceived reality, and learning. It also includes new chapters on Eysenck, Bandura, Kelly, and social learning theories.

• Author : Bem P. Allen
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 05 October 2015

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the key personality theorists by combining biographical information on each theorist with his or her contributions to the field, including her or his ranking among the world’s most respected psychologists. In addition, Allen provides a tabular format–that is, a running comparison between the major theorists, allowing students to analyze new theories against theories learned in previous chapters. The unique style of Allen's book is strengthened through his conversational tone, enabling students