Psychology of personal and social adjustment / Henry Clay Lindgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindgren, Henry Clay, 1914-2005, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Psychology of personal and social adjustment

Place of Publication:

New York : American Book Co., 1959.

Summary:

The writing of the original edition of Psychology of personal and social adjustment grew out of the need to provide a text for a General Education course in psychology concerned with promoting the personal and social development of students. This course, as given at San Francisco State College, has as its purpose aiding the student in understanding himself and others and helping him with problems of occupational choice and adjustment, courtship and marriage, and attaining success in college. These are problems that to some extent must be faced by everyone who attends college, and they are given major emphasis in this book. The chief purpose of any textbook is, of course, that of assisting the student in learning and the instructor in teaching. It has been with the intention of making this textbook a better teacher-learning tool that this revision has been undertaken. Much of the book has been rewritten in order to sharpen the focus of the discussions and to bring the various sections into better relationship with one another. New material and concepts have been introduced, particularly when experience with the first edition has indicated that they will be of special interest or importance to college students. The chapter sequence of the book has not been changed, but the approach and emphasis of some of the chapters have been modified. The research coverage has been reviewed, broadened, and brought up to date, and the revised lists of suggested readings at the end of each chapter have been more completely annotated in order to make them more useful for the student. A glossary of terms has been added.

Contents:

Introduction to the study of human behavior

The development of personality: The self

Emotional factors in interpersonal relations

Emotion: Need-satisfaction and the perception of threat

Emotion: Patterns of defense and escape

Problems of adjustment: Shyness and feelings of inferiority

Problems of adjustment: Independence and self-reliance

The forces that mold us: Determinants of personality

The forces that mold us: Social class and status

What happens in groups

Communication: The process of social interaction

Adjustment factors in employment

Choosing a vocation: Self-appraisal

Choosing a vocation: The study of an occupation

Getting an education: Intelligence

Getting an education: Learning

Building sound relationships between the sexes

The problem of antisocial and abnormal behavior

Integrative and disintegrative factors in mental health

Toward better mental health.

Notes:

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