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| Facts and Theories of Adult Development | |
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| The Pendulum of Opinion on Personality Stability | |
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| In Search of a Phenomenon | |
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| A Note on Psychotherapy | |
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| When Does Adulthood Begin? | |
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| Other Views: Theories of Change | |
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| A Trait Approach to Personality | |
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| Perspectives on Human Nature | |
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| Basic Principles of Trait Psychology | |
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| How Many Traits? Which Ones? | |
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| The Quest for a Unified System | |
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| Natural Languages and the Five-Factor Model | |
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| Measuring Personality | |
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| From Concepts to Data | |
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| Self-Reports and Observer Ratings | |
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| A Questionnaire Measure: The NEO Personality Inventory | |
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| Facets of N, E, and O | |
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| Facets of A and C | |
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| Making Distinctions | |
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| The Comprehensiveness of the Five-Factor Model | |
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| The Search for Growth or Decline in Personality | |
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| Cross-Sectional Studies of Personality Differences | |
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| Sampling Bias | |
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| Cohort Effects | |
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| Longitudinal Designs: Tracking Changes over Time | |
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| Stability in the 16PF | |
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| Sequential Strategies: Avoiding Practice and Time Effects | |
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| An Integrated Approach | |
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| Recent Developments | |
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| Small, Slow Changes | |
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| Another Mystery | |
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| A Different Analysis | |
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| Implications: Debunking Some Myths of Aging | |
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| Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personality and Aging | |
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| A Universal Structure | |
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| Adult Development across Cultures | |
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| History, Culture, and Cross-Sectional Comparisons | |
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| Some Possible Interpretations | |
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| Cross-Cultural Evidence on Stability | |
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| The Course of Personality Development in the Individual | |
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| Two Different Questions: Stability and Change in Groups and in Individuals | |
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| Developmental Patterns in Individuals | |
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| Investigating the Course of Personality Traits | |
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| Longitudinal Evidence | |
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| The Time Course of Stability | |
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| Stability Reconsidered: Qualifications and Rival Hypotheses | |
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| Methodological Issues in the Assessment of Stability | |
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| The Self-Concept and Stability | |
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| Accounting for Variance and Correcting for Unreliability | |
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| Retrospection and Self-Perceived Change | |
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| Moderators of Change | |
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| Psychological Characteristics | |
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| Life Events | |
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| Physical and Mental Health | |
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| Case Studies in Stability | |
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| Implications: Planning for the Future | |
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| A Different View: Ego Psychologies and Projective Methods | |
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| Dynamic or Ego Psychologies | |
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| Developmental Sequences | |
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| Dynamic Dispositions | |
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| Contrasting Traits with Ego Processes | |
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| Conflict and Its Resolution | |
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| Temporal Organization | |
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| Individual Differences in Ego Processes | |
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| Traits and Metatraits? | |
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| Developmental Changes in Ego Processes | |
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| Projective Assessments of Personality | |
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| Problems in Projective Methods | |
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| Conscious versus Unconscious Elements | |
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| Projective Testing and the Stability of Personality | |
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| Inkblot Tests | |
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| TAT Studies | |
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| Age and the Spontaneous Self-Concept | |
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| Adult Development as Seen through the Personal Interview | |
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| Form and Content in Psychological Interviews | |
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| Interview-Based Theories of Adult Development | |
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| Levinson's Seasons | |
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| Gould's Transformations | |
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| In Search of the Midlife Crisis | |
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| A Five-Factor Theory of Personality | |
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| The Birth of a Theory | |
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| Five-Factor Theory | |
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| Components of the Personality System | |
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| Postulates of FFT: How the System Works | |
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| The Origins of Traits | |
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| Trait Development and the FFT | |
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| Changes in Individual Differences | |
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| Evaluating Five-Factor Theory | |
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| The Influences of Personality on the Life Course | |
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| What Changes? | |
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| The Objective Biography | |
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| Characteristic Adaptations | |
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| The Self-Concept | |
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| Studying Life Structure and Life Course | |
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| Psychological Adjustment across the Lifespan | |
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| Personal Projects, Social Clocks, and Psychobiography | |
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| Marriage and Divorce | |
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| Careers | |
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| Trait Influences on the Self-Concept | |
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| Identity | |
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| The Life Narrative | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |