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| Personality and Its Assessment | |
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| What Is Personality? | |
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| Genotype and Phenotype | |
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| Change and Stability in Personality | |
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| The Value of Personality Assessment in a Clinical Context | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Clinical Yield from Personality Assessment | |
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| Qualities of Personality | |
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| What Is a Taxonomy? | |
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| Taxonomy versus Typology | |
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| The Value of a Taxonomy for Personality Assessment | |
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| The Lexigraphic Hypothesis | |
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| Searching for a Linguistic Structure | |
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| From Adjectives to Sentences: The NEO Model | |
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| Recommendations for Approaching This Book | |
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| Psychometric Overview of the NEO PI-R | |
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| Outline of Scales | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Factor Structure | |
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| The Question of Comprehensiveness | |
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| Correspondence between the NEO PI-R and Other Measurement Models | |
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| What the NEO PI-R Can Tell Us about Other Scales | |
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| The Question of Self-Distortion | |
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| Self-Peer Congruence | |
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| The Reverse Acquaintanceship Effect | |
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| The Logic of Assessment Using the NEO PI-R | |
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| Normal versus Abnormal Personality | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Five-Factor Model and Its Relations to Clinical Behavior | |
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| Robustness of the Five-Factor Model | |
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| Heritability | |
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| Cross-Cultural Generalizability | |
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| Theoretical Foundation | |
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| Interpreting the NEO PI-R | |
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| The Use of Validity Scales in Assessment | |
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| Social Desirability | |
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| Content-Free Validity Scales | |
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| The Value and Limits of Self-Report Data | |
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| NEO PI-R Facet Scales and Their Interpretations | |
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| Neuroticism | |
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| Extraversion | |
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| Openness to Experience | |
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| Agreeableness | |
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| Conscientiousness | |
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| NEO PI-R Interpretations and Select Case Profiles | |
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| Case History: Debbie K. | |
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| Case History: Joe W. | |
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| Case History: Frank and Judy V. | |
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| Providing Feedback | |
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| What If My NEO PI-R Profile Does Not Match the Self-Concept? | |
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| Error in Test Completion | |
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| Recontextualizing the Client's Motivation | |
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| Profile Analysis Using the NEO PI-R | |
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| Organizing NEO PI-R Information | |
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| General | |
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| Profiling NEO PI-R Scores | |
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| Selected Case Histories | |
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| Case History: Robert R. | |
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| Case History: Angela W. | |
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| Case History: Brian M. | |
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| Case History: Barbara W. | |
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| Case History: Beverly N. | |
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| Case History: Tom S. | |
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| Case History: Erica J. | |
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| Case History: Sally Ines | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Applications of the Rater Version of the NEO PI-R | |
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| Using Observer Ratings | |
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| Observer Ratings with Married Couples | |
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| Self-Other Congruence in Couples | |
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| Cross-Observer Agreement Analyses | |
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| Cross-Observer Agreement Analysis: Selected Cases | |
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| Clinical Yield from Cross-Observer Agreement Analysis | |
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| Observer Ratings as Predictors of Outcome | |
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| Research Applications with the NEO PI-R | |
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| The Need and Role of Research | |
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| Overview | |
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| How Clinicians Can Provide Important Insights | |
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| Issues Relating to the Factor Analysis of NEO PI-R Information | |
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| Factor Orthogonality | |
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| Number of Factors | |
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| Recovering the NEO PI-R Structure in New Samples | |
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| Application of NEO PI-R Data to Validity Research | |
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| Construct Validity | |
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| The Incremental Validity Paradigm | |
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| Outcome Research | |
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| Understanding Change over Time | |
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| Selecting Treatments for Persons | |
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| Understanding Our Clients | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |