Theories of personality

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Introduction to the discipline: Personality and the scientific outlook -- Psychoanalytic and neoanalytic perspectives: Freud's psychoanalytic theory; Jung's analytical psychology; Adler's individual psychology; Horney's social and cultural psychoanalysis; Erikson's psychoanalytic ego psychology; Kohut's self psychology -- Trait perspectives: Allport's trait theory; Cattell's structure-based systems theory; Eysenck's biological typology -- Cognitive perspectives: Kelly's theory of personal constructs -- Humanistic/existential perspectives: Maslow's self-actualization position; Roger's person-centered theory; May's existential-analytic position -- Social-behavioristic perspectives: Skinner's operant analysis; Rotter's expectancy-reinforcement value model; Bandura's social-cognitive theory -- Role of grand theories in contemporary personality psychology: Theory and research in contemporary personality psychology.;[This text] reviews the basic concepts and principles of the major, grand theories of personality. These grand theories attempt to explain much of our behavior in a variety of life situation. The text is designed to assess how well each of these theories meets criteria for judging its scientific worth. It also introduces students to the many research studies that test the validity of the major concepts in the theories. In addition, this [text] presents issues that currently challenge personality psychologists, and discusses some of the major theoretical and research areas and ideas in contemporary personality theory and research.-Pref.