Paradigms of personality assessment / Jerry S. Wiggins ; in collaboration with Rebecca S. Behrends ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiggins, Jerry S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality assessment.

Physical Description:

xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2003]

Summary:

From distinguished scholar and teacher Jerry S. Wiggins, this authoritative text offers a uniquely integrative introduction to adult personality assessment. Part I identifies five major assessment paradigms--psychodynamic, interpersonal, personological, multivariate, and empirical. Examined are the history of each paradigm, key figures in its development, and the current status of favored instruments and approaches. In Part II, leading representatives of each paradigm are invited to interpret extensive test and interview data collected from a single subject. The resulting "collaborative case study" facilitates comparison of techniques, theories, and interpretations; illuminates the unique contributions of each paradigm; and suggests areas of common ground and potential integration. Special features include numerous clearly presented timelines and charts.

Contents:

Personality, Measurement, and Assessment 1

Paradigms in the Natural and Social Sciences 4

Science and Personality Assessment: Limitations of the Analogy 5

The Development of Personality Assessment Communities 6

Paradigms of Assessment in Clinical Practice 9

Part I. The Five Paradigms and Their Convergences

1 The Psychodynamic Paradigm 25

The Two Disciplines of Psychoanalysis 25

Conceptual Background of the Psychodynamic Paradigm 27

Conceptual Background of Projective Methods 33

The Psychodynamic Tradition in Clinical Personality Assessment 34

The Menninger Assessment Battery 35

The Rorschach Inkblot Test 37

The Validity of the Rorschach 48

The Comprehensive System and the Psychodynamic Paradigm 50

Contrasting Views on the Current Status of the Rorschach 53

The Thematic Apperception Test 54

The Wechsler Scales 57

Current Trends within the Psychodynamic Paradigm 60

2 The Interpersonal Paradigm 63

Metapsychological Considerations: I. The Nature of Interpersonal Fields 63

Metapsychological Considerations: II. The Individual and Society 65

The Interpersonal Circumplex 67

Historical Development of the Interpersonal Paradigm 71

Representative Assessment Instruments 73

Interpretive Principles 76

Defining and Evaluating Circumplex Structure 78

Classification of Personality Scales with the Interpersonal Circumplex 83

Axioms of Contemporary Interpersonal Theory 85

The Nature of Interpersonal Space 87

Clinical Applications of the Interpersonal Circumplex 90

3 The Personological Paradigm 93

Historical Overview of the Personological Paradigm 93

Case Studies and Psychobiographies 97

Classic Studies in Psychobiography 99

Characteristics of a More Recent Psychobiographical Study 108

Conceptual Frameworks of the Personological Paradigm 109

Assessment Methods 113

Interpretive Principles 114

Current Trends in Psychobiography 117

Applications and Current Status 120

4 The Multivariate Paradigm 123

Origins of the Multivariate Paradigm 123

Essentials of Factor Analysis 125

Recent History of the Multivariate Paradigm 130

The Emergence of the "Big Five" Factors 135

Assessment Instruments 138

Comparative Validity of Multivariate Inventories 146

Clinical Applications and Current Status 151

Additional Issues in the Application of the FFM to the Personality Disorders 156

Application of the FFM to Clinical Practice 158

Heredity Revisited 161

5 The Empirical Paradigm 164

The Disease Model of Mental Illness 164

Origins of the MMPI 165

Contrasting Views on the Meaning of Test Responses 174

Evolution and Development of the Paradigm 175

Source Books in the Early Historical Development of the Paradigm 179

Source Books in the Contemporary Development of the Paradigm: The MMPI-2 and MMPI-A 182

6 Convergences among Paradigms: The Individual and Society 193

Metapsychological Considerations 193

Agency and Communion within the Paradigms of Personality Assessment 194

The Psychodynamic Paradigm 195

The Interpersonal Paradigm 197

The Personological Paradigm 198

The Multivariate Paradigm 200

The Empirical Paradigm 201

Influence of a Single Theorist across Paradigms 206

Part II. A Collaborative Case Study

7 Personological Assessment: The Life Story of Madeline G / Dan P. McAdams 213

Assessment Methods and Rationale 213

Interpretation 220

8 Psychodynamic Assessment / Rebecca S. Behrends, Sidney J. Blatt 226

Assessment Methods and Rationale 226

Diagnostic Understanding 227

Functioning within a Highly Structured Context 229

Overall Intellectual Functioning 232

Functioning within an Interpersonal Context 235

Functioning within an Ambiguous Context 239

Self and Others 242

9 Interpersonal Assessment / Aaron L. Pincus, Michael B. Gurtman 246

Our Approach to Assessment 246

Interpersonal Assessment Methods 247

Results 251

Standard IAS and IIP-C Profiles 253

Interpretation 253

10 Multivariate Assessment: NEO PI-R Profiles of Madeline G / Paul T. Costa, Jr., Ralph L. Piedmont 262

Two Perspectives on Madeline G. 263

An Integrated Portrait 266

Personality Styles: Factor Pairs 269

Facet-Level Interpretation 272

Potential Problems in Living 277

Personality and the Life Course 278

11 Empirical Assessment: The MMPI-2 Profile of Madeline G / Yossef S. Ben-Porath 281

An Annotated MMPI-2 Interpretation 283

An MMPI-2 Narrative Interpretation 293

Madeline's MMPI-2 Profile in the Context of Her Life Story 294

12 Constructive Alternativism in Personality Assessment: Madeline G from Multiple Perspectives / Krista K. Trobst, Jerry S. Wiggins 296

Some Highlights within Each of the Paradigms 297

Convergences and Divergences across the Assessments 302

A Peer Review of Madeline G 312

Madeline since the Assessments 317

Appendix A. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Protocol 331

Appendix B.1. Rorschach Protocol 334

Appendix B.2. Rorschach Scoring 339

Appendix B.3. Rorschach Scoring Summary 340

Appendix C. Object Relations Inventory (ORI) Protocol 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-378) and index.

ISBN:

157230913X

OCLC:

51898947