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Record Nr.

UNINA9910555261803321

Titolo

The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Set / / edited by Donald Saklofske, Con Stough, Annamaria Di Fabio ; edited-in-chief, Christopher S. Nave, Bernardo J. Carducci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-119-79527-3

1-119-79395-5

1-118-97084-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2,538 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

155.203

Soggetti

Personality

Individual differences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Volume 1. Models and theories -- Volume 2. Research methods and assessment techniques -- Volume 3. Personality processes and individual differences -- Volume 4. Clinical, applied, and cross-cultural research.

Sommario/riassunto

"Gordon Allport was an American psychologist, largely credited with the development of personality psychology. Allport is particularly known for the development of his trait theory of personality. With a strong religious and moral upbringing, Allport had a strong desire to integrate the scientific approach of psychology with a desire to better society, and advance the field of social ethics. In his trait theory, Allport argued that our behavior was determined by enduring qualities that could be measured, known as traits"--