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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palcroft, Lauren B.

Lopez, Melissa V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality assessment.

Personality tests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

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

Introduction

Literature Support

Study

Method

Results

Assessing Individuals for Team "Worthiness": Investigating the Intersection of the Big Five Personality Factors, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Teamwork Aptitude

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

Discussion

Author's Notes

Personality Traits and Daily Moods

Weight? Wait! Importance Weighting of Satisfaction Scores in Quality of Life Assessment

1. Importance Weighting in Quality of Life

2. Utility of Importance Weighting

3. Appropriateness of Importance Weighting

4. Summary and Implications

References.

A Psycho-Social Approach to Meanings and Functions of Trait Labels

Trait Psychology: Basis and Limitations

A Psycho-Social Approach to Trait Labels: Traits as Polysemous Entities

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

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

Score Reliability in Personality Research

Types of Score Reliability

Estimation Methods for Score Reliability

Standards for Interpreting Reliability Coefficients

Additional Considerations for Reporting and Interpreting Reliability Data

Restyling Personality Assessments

Personality Assessors: Others Versus Self

Reporting Assesments: Absolute versus Relative Scales

Theory and Practice in the Use and Interpretation of Likert-Type Scales within a Cross-Cultural Context

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

Construct and Response Bias Correlates in Summated Scale Definitions of Personality Traits

Measuring Personality

Response Bias in Personality Assessment

Summary and Research Agenda

Methods

Analyses

Academic and Everyday Procrastination and their Relation to the Five-Factor Model

Procrastination in Everyday Life

Academic Procrastination

Procrastination and Personality

Procrastination, Achievement Motivation and Gender Differences

The Five Factor Model (FFM) of Personality

Hypotheses

Personality and Attitude Toward Dreams

Existing Research on Attitude Toward Dreams

Definition of the Attitude Toward Dreams

Attitude Toward Dreams and Personality

Social Dominance Orientation, Ambivalent Sexism, and Abortion: Explaining Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Attitudes

Current Investigation

Limitations

Factor Structure. Sex Effects and Differential Item Functioning of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised - Abbreviated: A Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes Approach

Data Analysis

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

Short Communications

Online Collaborative Learning: The Challenge of Change

Literature Review

Goals of the Course Module

Description of the Module

Limitations of the Study

The Influence of Personality and Symptoms Severity on Functioning Patients with Schizophrenia

Circumventing Self-Reflection When Measuring Emotions: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT)

Implicit Affect

The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test

Empirical Research with the IPANAT

Summary

Structured MMPI-2 Client Feedback in the Identification of Potential Supplemental Targets of Change

Selection of Targets ofr Change in Contemporary Psychotherapy

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

On the Test-Retest Reliability of the Autobiographical Memory Test

Results and Discussion

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60876-799-X

OCLC:

853454321