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The Revised NEO Personality Inventory : clinical and research applications / Ralph L. Piedmont.

Van Pelt Library BF698.8.N46 P54 1998
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Piedmont, Ralph L., 1958-
Series:
Plenum series in social/clinical psychology
The Plenum series in social/clinical psychology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
NEO Personality Inventory.
NEO Five-Factor Inventory.
Physical Description:
xx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Plenum Press, [1998]
Summary:
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory is the first practical guide to the use and interpretation of the NEO PI-R, the only commercially available instrument to assess personality on the dimensions of the Five-Factor Model. Unlike instruments that emphasize only psychopathology, the NEO PI-R identifies personality strengths as well as problematic personality styles. Clinicians who draw upon this greatly expanded range of relevant client information can more effectively plan treatment and document progress. This volume provides -a complete introduction-a far-ranging summary of multidisciplinary, multicultural research-instructions for effective use-and a computer program and questionnaires to help researchers with new samples and outcome studies.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Personality and Its Assessment 1
What Is Personality? 2
Genotype and Phenotype 3
Change and Stability in Personality 5
The Value of Personality Assessment in a Clinical Context 8
The Clinical Yield from Personality Assessment 10
Qualities of Personality 14
What Is a Taxonomy? 17
Taxonomy versus Typology 19
The Value of a Taxonomy for Personality Assessment 19
The Lexigraphic Hypothesis 20
Searching for a Linguistic Structure 24
From Adjectives to Sentences: The NEO Model 27
Recommendations for Approaching This Book 32
Chapter 2 Psychometric Overview of the NEO PI-R 35
Outline of Scales 35
Reliability 36
Factor Structure 40
The Question of Comprehensiveness 42
Correspondence between the NEO PI-R and Other Measurement Models 43
What the NEO PI-R Can Tell Us about Other Scales 46
The Question of Self-Distortion 52
Self-Peer Congruence 52
The Reverse Acquaintanceship Effect 54
The Logic of Assessment Using the NEO PI-R 56
Normal versus Abnormal Personality 57
The Five-Factor Model and Its Relations to Clinical Behavior 58
Robustness of the Five-Factor Model 71
Heritability 72
Cross-Cultural Generalizability 73
Theoretical Foundation 74
Chapter 3 Interpreting the NEO PI-R 79
The Use of Validity Scales in Assessment 79
Social Desirability 80
Content-Free Validity Scales 81
The Value and Limits of Self-Report Data 83
NEO PI-R Facet Scales and Their Interpretations 84
Neuroticism 84
Extraversion 86
Openness to Experience 87
Agreeableness 89
Conscientiousness 90
NEO PI-R Interpretations and Select Case Profiles 92
Providing Feedback 105
What If My NEO PI-R Profile Does Not Match the Self-Concept? 107
Error in Test Completion 108
Recontextualizing the Client's Motivation 108
Chapter 4 Profile Analysis Using the NEO PI-R 113
Organizing NEO PI-R Information 113
Profiling NEO PI-R Scores 115
Selected Case Histories 127
Chapter 5 Applications of the Rater Version of the NEO PI-R 165
Using Observer Ratings 166
Observer Ratings with Married Couples 171
Self-Other Congruence in Couples 173
Cross-Observer Agreement Analyses 176
Cross-Observer Agreement Analysis: Selected Cases 186
Clinical Yield from Cross-Observer Agreement Analysis 204
Observer Ratings as Predictors of Outcome 205
Chapter 6 Research Applications with the NEO PI-R 209
The Need and Role of Research 210
How Clinicians Can Provide Important Insights 212
Issues Relating to the Factor Analysis of NEO PI-R Information 213
Factor Orthogonality 213
Number of Factors 218
Recovering the NEO PI-R Structure in New Samples 222
Application of NEO PI-R Data to Validity Research 232
Construct Validity 233
The Incremental Validity Paradigm 237
Outcome Research 239
Understanding Change over Time 244
Selecting Treatments for Persons 247
Understanding Our Clients 250.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and indexes.
ISBN:
0306459434
OCLC:
39800682

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