Personality assessment : new research / / Lauren B. Palcroft and Melissa V. Lopez, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (443 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.28
• Soggetto topico: Personality assessment; Personality tests
• Altri autori: PalcroftLauren B LopezMelissa V
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Personality Assessment: New Research -- Contents -- Preface -- Research and Review Studies -- Child and Adolescent Personality Development and Assessment: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach -- Abstract -- I. Emotional and Personality Development -- II. Relational Influences on Emotion and Personality Development -- III. Normal and Abnormal Personality Development: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach -- Future Directions -- IV. Recommendations for Assessment: A Multidimensional, Multicontextual, Multimethod, Developmental Psychopathology Approach -- Conclusion -- References -- Integrating Evidence-Based Treatment into an Attachment Guided Curriculum in a Therapeutic Preschool: Initial Findings -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Support -- Study -- Method -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Assessing Individuals for Team "Worthiness": Investigating the Intersection of the Big Five Personality Factors, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Teamwork Aptitude -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Personality Assessment in Personnel Selection: A Little History -- The Big Five Personality Factors and the Five-Factor Model of Personality -- Organizational Citizenship Behaviors -- Cognitive Ability and Teams: Teamwork Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) -- Team Worthiness? -- Purpose of Study -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Author's Notes -- References -- Personality Traits and Daily Moods -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Weight? Wait! Importance Weighting of Satisfaction Scores in Quality of Life Assessment -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1. Importance Weighting in Quality of Life -- 2. Utility of Importance Weighting -- 3. Appropriateness of Importance Weighting -- 4. Summary and Implications -- Conclusion -- References. ; A Psycho-Social Approach to Meanings and Functions of Trait Labels -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Trait Psychology: Basis and Limitations -- Conclusion -- A Psycho-Social Approach to Trait Labels: Traits as Polysemous Entities -- Conclusion -- References -- Comparing the Psychometric Properties of the Common Items in the Short and Abbreviated Versions of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaires: A Mean and Covariance Structures Analysis Approach -- Abstract -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Successful Psychopathy: Unresolved Issues and Future Directions -- Psychopathy: What it is, and What it isn't -- What is "Successful" Psychopathy? -- Assessment of Successful Psychpathy -- Detecting the Successful Psychopath: Modern Research Efforts -- Successful Psychopathy: Evidence from Psychophysiology and Neurobiology -- Future Directions in Understanding the Successful Psychopath -- Note -- References -- Score Reliability in Personality Research -- Introduction -- Types of Score Reliability -- Estimation Methods for Score Reliability -- Standards for Interpreting Reliability Coefficients -- Additional Considerations for Reporting and Interpreting Reliability Data -- Conclusion -- References -- Restyling Personality Assessments -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Personality Assessors: Others Versus Self -- Reporting Assesments: Absolute versus Relative Scales -- Conclusion -- References -- Theory and Practice in the Use and Interpretation of Likert-Type Scales within a Cross-Cultural Context -- Abstract -- The Collectivist-Individualist Impression-Expression (ImpExp) Model of Responding to Questionnaires -- From Theory to Practice: Measuring the Effect of Collectivist and Individualist Attributes on Likert-Type Questionnaires (Study 1) -- From Theory to Practice: Cross-Natural or Cross-Cultural Effects (Study 2). ; General Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Construct and Response Bias Correlates in Summated Scale Definitions of Personality Traits -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Measuring Personality -- Response Bias in Personality Assessment -- Summary and Research Agenda -- Methods -- Analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- Academic and Everyday Procrastination and their Relation to the Five-Factor Model -- Abstract -- Procrastination in Everyday Life -- Academic Procrastination -- Procrastination and Personality -- Procrastination, Achievement Motivation and Gender Differences -- The Five Factor Model (FFM) of Personality -- Hypotheses -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Personality and Attitude Toward Dreams -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Existing Research on Attitude Toward Dreams -- Definition of the Attitude Toward Dreams -- Attitude Toward Dreams and Personality -- Method -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Social Dominance Orientation, Ambivalent Sexism, and Abortion: Explaining Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Attitudes -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Current Investigation -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- References -- Factor Structure. Sex Effects and Differential Item Functioning of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised - Abbreviated: A Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes Approach -- Abstract -- Method -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Factor Structure of the JEPQR-A -- Evaluation of Direct Sex Effect on the JEPQR-A Items -- Evaluation of Sex and Age Effects on the JEPQR-A Factors -- Discussion -- References -- Short Communications -- Online Collaborative Learning: The Challenge of Change -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Goals of the Course Module -- Description of the Module -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Limitations of the Study -- Conclusion -- References. ; The Influence of Personality and Symptoms Severity on Functioning Patients with Schizophrenia -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Circumventing Self-Reflection When Measuring Emotions: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Implicit Affect -- The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test -- Empirical Research with the IPANAT -- Summary -- References -- Structured MMPI-2 Client Feedback in the Identification of Potential Supplemental Targets of Change -- Abstract -- Structured MMPI-2 Client Feedback in the Identification of Potential Supplemental Targets of Change -- Selection of Targets ofr Change in Contemporary Psychotherapy -- References -- Beyond the Traits of the Five Factor Model: Using Deviant Personality Traits to Predict Deviant Behavior in Organizations -- Machiavellianism -- Narcissism -- Psychopathy -- Relationship between the Dark Traid and the Five Factor Model -- Integrating the Dark Triad into Industrial and Organizational Psychology -- Conclusion -- References -- On the Test-Retest Reliability of the Autobiographical Memory Test -- Abstract -- On the Test-Retest Reliability of the Autobiographical Memory Test -- Method -- Results and Discussion -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Personality assessment is the determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. What, then, are the common properties of assessment, regardless of which area is examined?
• Titolo autorizzato: Personality assessment
• ISBN: 1-60876-799-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959666703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II