The balance of personality / Chris Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality--Study and teaching (Higher).

Personality.

Personality development.

Personality--Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Portland, Or.] : Portland State University Library, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested in teaching about theory and research on personality.

Contents:

1 Personality Traits

2 Personality Stability

3 Personality Assessment

4 Sigmund Freud, Karen Horney, Nancy Chodorow: Viewpoints on Psychodynamic Theory

5 Carl Jung

6 Humanistic and Existential Theory: Frankl, Rogers, and Maslow

7 The Nature-Nurture Question

8 Self-Regulation and Conscientiousness

9 Personality Disorders

10 Happiness: The Science of Subjective Well-Being

11 Yoga, Buddhism, Personality and Non-Personality

Notes:

Description based on print resource