Personality Development Across the Lifespan (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Personality Development across the Lifespan examines the development of personality characteristics from childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives, methods, and empirical findings of personality and developmental psychology, also detailing insights on how individuals differ from each other, how they change during life, and how these changes relate to biological and environmental factors, including major life events, social relationships, and health.

The book begins with chapters on personality development in different life phases before moving on to theoretical perspectives, the development of specific personality characteristics, and personality development in relation to different contexts, like close others, health, and culture.

Final sections cover methods in research on the topic and the future directions of research in personality development.

• Introduces and reviews the most important personality characteristics
• Examines personality in relation to different contexts and how it is related to important life outcomes
• Discusses patterns and sources of personality development

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128047613
• Artikelnr.: 47837026

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Introduction
1. Personality development research: State-of-the-art and future directions

Part Two: Personality Development in Different Life Phases
2. Personality development in childhood
3. Personality development in adolescence
4. Personality development in emerging adulthood
5. Personality development in adulthood and old age
6. On the role of personality in late life

Part Three: Theoretical Perspectives on Personality Development
7. Five-Factor Theory and personality development
8. Theoretical perspectives on the interplay of nature and nurture in personality development
9. Set-Point Theory and personality development: Reconciliation of a paradox
10. Evolutionary aspects of personality development: Evidence from nonhuman animals
11. A critical evaluation of the Neo-Socioanalytic Model of personality

Part Four: Important Personality Characteristics and Their Development
12. The lifespan development of self-esteem
13. The development of subjective well-being
14. Getting older, getting better? Toward understanding positive personality development across adulthood
15. The development of perceived control
16. The development of goals and motivation
17. The development of attachment styles
18. Identity formation in adolescence and young adulthood
19. Development of cognition and intelligence
20. And the story evolves: The development of personal narratives and narrative identity

Part Five: Personality Development in Context
21. Personality development in reaction to major life events
22. Personality development in close relationships
23. Personality development and health
24. Personality development and psychopathology
25. Vocational interests as personality traits: Characteristics, development, and significance in educational and organizational environments
26. Intercultural similarities and differences in personality development

Part Six: Methods in Research on Personality Development
27. Personality assessment in daily life: A roadmap for future personality development research
28. Analyzing processes in personality development
29. Behavior genetics and personality development: A methodological and meta-analytic review
30. Analyzing personality change: From average trajectories to within-person dynamics

Part Seven: New Areas of Research on Personality Development
31. Cohort differences in personality
32. Development of implicit personality
33. Volitional personality change