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| An Introduction | |
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| What Is Personality Psychology? | |
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| Defining Personality | |
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| Theory in Personality Psychology | |
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| Perspectives on Personality | |
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| Organization within Chapters | |
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| Methods in the Study of Personality | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Establishing Relationships among Variables | |
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| Issues in Personality Assessment | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Reliability of Measurement | |
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| Validity of Measurement | |
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| Two Rationales behind the Development of Assessment Devices | |
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| Better Assessment: A Never-Ending Search | |
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| The Dispositional Perspective | |
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| The Dispositional Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Types, Traits, and Interactionism | |
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| Types and Traits | |
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| What Traits Matter? | |
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| The Five-Factor Model: The Basic Dimensions of Personality? | |
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| Traits, Situations, and Interactionism | |
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| Interactionism Extended: Context-Dependent Expression of Personality | |
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| Trait Psychology: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Needs and Motives | |
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| Basic Theoretical Elements | |
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| Needs, Motives, and Personality | |
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| Individual Differences in Specific Needs | |
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| Further Determinants of Behavior | |
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| The Methods of Personology | |
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| Need and Motive Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Biological Perspective | |
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| The Biological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Inheritance, Evolution, and Personality | |
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| Physique and Personality | |
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| Determining the Role of Inheritance in Personality | |
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| What Personality Qualities Are Inherited? | |
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| Two Further Issues | |
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| Evolution and Human Behavior | |
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| Inheritance and Evolution: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Biological Processes and Personality | |
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| Eysenck: Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Brain Functions | |
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| A Different View of Brain Functions: Approach and Inhibition | |
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| Sensation Seeking: A Third Biological System? | |
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| Hormones and Personality | |
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| Biological Processes and Personality: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Psychoanalytic Perspective | |
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| The Psychoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Psychoanalytic Structure and Process | |
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| The Topographical Model of Mind | |
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| Aspects of Personality: The Structural Model | |
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| Motivation: The Drives of Personality | |
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| Psychosexual Development | |
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| Psychoanalytic Structure and Process: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Anxiety, Defense, and Self-Protection | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Mechanisms of Defense | |
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| The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | |
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| Projective Techniques of Assessment | |
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| Psychoanalytic Defense: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Neoanalytic Perspective | |
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| The Neoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Ego Psychology | |
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| Principles of Ego Psychology | |
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| Ego Development | |
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| Ego Psychology: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Psychosocial Theories | |
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| Object Relations Theories | |
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| Attachment Theory and Personality | |
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| Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development | |
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| Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change | |
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| Psychosocial Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Learning Perspective | |
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| The Learning Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Conditioning Theories | |
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| Classical Conditioning | |
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| Instrumental Conditioning | |
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| Conditioning Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Social-Cognitive Learning Theories | |
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| Elaborations on Conditioning Processes | |
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| Observational Learning | |
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| Manifestations of Cognitive and Social Learning | |
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| Social-Cognitive Learning Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Phenomenological Perspective | |
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| The Phenomenological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Humanistic Psychology: Self-Actualization and Self-Determination | |
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| Self-Actualization | |
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| Self-Determination | |
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| The Self and Processes of Defense | |
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| Self-Actualization and Maslow's Hierarchy of Motives | |
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| Existential Psychology | |
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| Humanistic Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Personal Constructs | |
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| Personal Constructs and Personality | |
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| Personal Construct Theory: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The Cognitive Self- Regulation Perspective | |
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| The Cognitive Self-Regulation Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Contemporary Cognitive Views | |
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| Representing Your Experience of the World | |
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| Broader Statements on Cognition and Personality | |
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| Contemporary Cognitive Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Self-Regulation | |
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| From Cognition to Behavior | |
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| Self-Regulation and Feedback Control | |
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| Self-Regulation Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Personality In Perspective | |
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| Overlap and Integration | |
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| Similarities among Perspectives | |
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| Recurrent Themes, Viewed from Different Angles | |
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| Combining Perspectives | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |