Motivation and Personality
Author: Charles P. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-26
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9780521400527
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Genes and Environment in Personality Development
Author: John C. Loehlin
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1992-04-10
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntriguing information about twins, adoptions and other family relationships is offered in this volume, which explores how genes and environment act jointly to create individual differences in temperament and personality. Loehlin examines the relative contributions of genes and environment to major dimensions of personality and to personality change over time, and discusses how genotype-environment findings for personality compare with neighbouring trait domains such as ability. The book concludes with an analysis of how research results on individual personality variation relate to evolutionary views about human nature.
A Theory of Achievement Motivation
Author: John William Atkinson
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonality and Individual Differences
Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1118773039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership and vocational interests. This third edition has been completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date and cutting-edge data and analysis. As well as introducing all topics related to individual differences, this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychodynamic approach to latent variables, validity, reliability and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all major aspects of differential psychology.
Self-theories
Author: Carol S. Dweck
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317710339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: * How these patterns originate in people's self-theories * Their consequences for the person -- for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being * Their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations * The experiences that create them This outstanding text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas.
The Achievement Motive
Author: David C. McClelland
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-12
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781614278238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2015 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book makes three discrete contributions to the theory of motivation. The first contribution is a theory of motivation; the second large section carefully describes the measurement of the achievement motive through content-analysis of imaginations stories; the rest of the book summarizes a number of experiments with the achievement motive as the dependent variable. McClelland is chiefly known for his work on achievement motivation, but his research interests extended to personality and consciousness. David McClelland pioneered workplace motivational thinking, developing achievement-based motivational theory and models, and promoted improvements in employee assessment methods, advocating competency-based assessments and tests, arguing them to be better than traditional IQ and personality-based tests. His ideas have since been widely adopted in many organizations, and relate closely to the theory of Frederick Herzberg.
The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures
Author: Robert R. McCrae
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1461507634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Five-Factor Model Across Cultures was designed to further an understanding of the interrelations between personality and culture by examining the dominant paradigm for personality assessment - the Five-Factor Model or FFM - in a wide variety of cultural contexts. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory about personality traits and culture that is extremely relevant to personality psychologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and psychological anthropologists.
Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior
Author: Mark R. Leary
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1462514898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do individual differences interact with situational factors to shape social behavior? Are people with certain traits more likely to form lasting marriages; experience test-taking anxiety; break the law; feel optimistic about the future? This handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative examination of the full range of personality variables associated with interpersonal judgment, behavior, and emotion. The contributors are acknowledged experts who have conducted influential research on the constructs they address. Chapters discuss how each personality attribute is conceptualized and assessed, review the strengths and limitations of available measures (including child and adolescent measures, when available), present important findings related to social behavior, and identify directions for future study.
Handbook of Personality Development
Author: Dan P. McAdams
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1462536972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together prominent scholars, this authoritative volume considers the development of personality at multiple levels--from the neuroscience of dispositional traits to the cultural shaping of life stories. Illustrated with case studies and concrete examples, the Handbook integrates areas of research that have often remained disparate. It offers a lifespan perspective on the many factors that influence each individual's psychological makeup and examines the interface of personality development with health, psychopathology, relationships, and the family. Contributors provide broad-based, up-to-date reviews of theories, empirical findings, methodological innovations, and emerging trends. See also the authored volume The Art and Science of Personality Development, by Dan P. McAdams.
Learning Strategies and Learning Styles
Author: Ronald R. Schmeck
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1489921184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA style is any pattern we see in a person's way of accomplishing a particular type of task. The "task" of interest in the present context is education-learning and remembering in school and transferring what is learned to the world outside of school. Teachers are expressing some sort of awareness of style when they observe a particular action taken by a particular student and then say something like: "This doesn't surprise me! That's just the way he is. " Observation of a single action cannot reveal a style. One's impres sion of a person's style is abstracted from multiple experiences of the person under similar circumstances. In education, if we understand the styles of individual students, we can often anticipate their perceptions and subsequent behaviors, anticipate their misunderstandings, take ad vantage of their strengths, and avoid (or correct) their weaknesses. These are some of the goals of the present text. In the first chapter, I present an overview of the terminology and research methods used by various authors of the text. Although they differ a bit with regard to meanings ascribed to certain terms or with regard to conclusions drawn from certain types of data, there is none theless considerable agreement, especially when one realizes that they represent three different continents and five different nationalities.
