Personality as an affect-processing system [[electronic resource] ] : toward an integrative theory / / Jack Block

• Autore: Block Jack <1924-2010.>
• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2
• Soggetto topico: Personality
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-224) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction and Orientation; 2 Some Logical, Psycho-Logical, and Definitional Matters; 3 Theoretical Orientation and Aspiration; 4 A First Characterization of the Personality System; 5 A Beginning Discussion of Drive, Percept, and Anxiety; 6 Drives, Tension, and Control; 7 Percept, Environment, and Perceptualizing; 8 Closing the Ring; 9 Clinical Implications; 10 Connections to Theoretical Alternatives; 11 Prescript: Developmental Aspects of Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering variety of construals and constructs. In this landmark book, Jack Block, who has spent more than 50 years studying the many facets of personality, takes a long look at current debates and finds common ground on which to construct an integrative model. Perceiving more congruence among disparate formulations than has hitherto been appre
• Titolo autorizzato: Personality as an affect-processing system
• ISBN: 1-306-71685-3; 1-135-64584-1; 1-282-32568-X; 9786612325687; 1-4106-0246-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450743303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II