Gian Vittorio Caprara, Daniel CervoneCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 11/16/2000EAN 9780521583107, ISBN10: 0521583101Hardcover, 506 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 x 2.9 cmLanguage: EnglishOriginally published in EnglishPersonality: Determinants, Dynamics and Potentials, first published in 2000, is a comprehensive survey of research and theory in personality psychology. The book provides balanced coverage of biological, cognitive, affective, social, and interpersonal determinants of personality functioning and individual differences. The authors organize these factors within an overarching theoretical framework that highlights the dynamic transactions between individuals and the sociocultural environment, and the human capacities for self-reflection and self-regulation. The book's broad, integrative approach to the study of personality reveals how advances throughout the psychological sciences illuminate the classic questions of personality psychology. The volume is designed as a textbook for advanced-level courses and as a reference for professionals in psychology and related disciplines. The book meets personality psychology's need for an integrative analysis of the field that reviews recent advances, places them in their historical context, and identifies particularly promising avenues for the discipline's future development.Part I. Introduction to Personality PsychologyProloguepersonality psychology as an integrative discipline1. The domain of personality psychology2. Origins, history, and progressPart II. Description and Explanation3. Individual differencestraits, temperament, and intelligence4. Personality coherence and individual uniquenessinteractionism and social-cognitive systemsPart III. The Development of Personality5. Personality development across the course of life6. Genetics, brain systems, and personality7. Interpersonal relations8. Social contexts and social constructionswork, education, family, and genderPart IV. The Dynamics of Personality9. Knowledge structures and interpretive processes10. Affective experienceemotions and mood11. Unconscious processes and conscious experience12. Motivation and self-regulationPart V. Epilogue.
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