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| Each chapter concludes with a summary | |
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| An Introduction | |
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| What Is Personality Psychology? | |
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| Defining Personality | |
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| Why Use Personality as a Concept? | |
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| A Working Definition | |
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| Two Fundamental Issues in Personality Psychology | |
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| Theory In Personality Psychology | |
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| What Do Theories Do? Evaluating Theories: The Role of Research | |
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| What Else Makes a Theory Good? | |
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| Perspectives on Personality | |
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| Groupings Among Theories | |
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| How Distinct Are the Perspectives? | |
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| Another Kind of ldquo;Perspective.rdquo; | |
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| Organization Within Chapters | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change | |
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| Methods in the Study of Personality | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Sources: Observe Yourself and Observe Others | |
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| Seeking Depth: Case Studies | |
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| Seeking Generality: Studies of Many People | |
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| Establishing Relationships Among Variables | |
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| Correlation Between Variables | |
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| Two Kinds of Significance | |
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| Causality and a Limitation on Inference | |
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| Search for Causality: Experimental Research | |
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| Recognizing Types of Study | |
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| What Kind of Research Is Best? | |
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| Multifactor Studies | |
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| Reading Figures from Multifactor Research | |
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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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| Internal Consistency | |
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| Inter-Rater Reliability | |
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| Stability Across Time | |
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| Validity of Measurement | |
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| Construct Validity | |
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| Criterion Validity | |
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| Convergent Validity | |
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| Discriminant Validity | |
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| Face Validity | |
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| Culture and Validity | |
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| Response Sets and Loss of Validity | |
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| Two Rationales Behind the Development of Assessment Devices | |
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| Rational, or Theoretical, Approach | |
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| Empirical Approaches | |
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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 UnderlyingAssumptions | |
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| Types, Traits, and Interactionism | |