Managing Personality

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2009
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-36260-1 (ISBN)

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Managing Personality is grounded in the conviction that scientific understanding of personality requires measurement in order to describe phenomena in an objective, systematic fashion and to test theories. Many have argued that science progresses with improvements in instrumentation and methodology. The critical issue in the study of personality is being sure that each concept or theoretical term is measurable, with procedures that can be specified and observed. This book is concerned with tactics and strategies for improving the relationships between ideas and observations.

By contributing to advances in personality measurement, this book seeks to further the science of personality. Fiske is convinced of the importance of developing concepts, variables, and dimensions applicable to all people, rather than the personality of an individual person. Although case studies of personality is necessary for efforts to help individuals in the clinic, finding and measuring common personality attributes is more important to the development of a science of personality.

Managing Personality was written for two groups of people. It is intended to present the status quo to those who want a synthesis of personality measurement as it exists. Such people may have some general interest in the field or may be interested in it because they intend to work in such related areas as clinical practice. The second audience includes students of personality who are concerned with evaluating the measurement of personality, and especially people who are conducting such research or are preparing themselves for such work.

Donald W. Fiske was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Chicago. He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Face-to-Face Interactions: Research, Methods, and Theory, Interaction Structure and Strategy, Measuring the Concepts of Personality, and Metatheory in Social Science.

One: What Do We Measure?; Introduction; One: The Roots of Personality Measurement; Two: Orientations and Themes; Three: Personality, Process, and Systematic Observations; Four: The Observational Data of Personology; Five: The Modes of Measuring Personality; Six: The Specification of Constructs; Two: Measuring; Introduction; Seven: Some Fundamentals of Measurement; Eight: Indices: Their Models and Their Evaluation; Nine: Behaving and Changing; Ten: A Human Being Takes a Test; Eleven: The Specificity of Behaviors and of Measurements; Twelve: Measuring a Personality Construct Today; Thirteen: Prospects and Issues

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2009
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-202-36260-4 / 0202362604
ISBN-13	978-0-202-36260-1 / 9780202362601
Zustand	Neuware