Personality Theories: An Introduction - Hardcover

Engler, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395708354 ISBN 13: 9780395708354

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic), 1995

Synopsis

The Seventh Edition of Personality Theories continues its sound tradition of providing accurate and thorough coverage via an easily accessible text enhanced by pedagogical features and a focus on critical thinking. Personality Theories is designed both to explain the major personality theories and to stimulate critical thinking about them. Each chapter focuses on one theory or group of theories and provides brief biographies that shed light on how the theories were formed. Engler also provides criteria for evaluating each theory and cites current research pertaining to that theory, in addition to integrating multicultural and gender-related issues throughout the text.

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Synopsis

Organized by theorist, this text on personality theory presents the major features of each theory, compares various theories to outline distinctive characteristics and emphasize significant ideas around which the theories are structured, and provides criteria to guide the evaluation of each theory. Each chapter focuses on one theory, or a group of related theories, and brief biographies of the theorists shed light on how the theories were formed. In this third edition, a new chapter on cognitive-behavioural theorists (Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck and Arnold Lazarus) introduces students to an increasingly significant group of theories instrumental in the development of counselling. The expanded chapter on trait and temperamental theories now includes Costa and McCrae's "Big 5" personality-trait theory, and more coverage of Buss and Plomin's temperament theory. An ancillary package is available upon adoption.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395708354
• ISBN 13: 9780395708354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 488