Personality traits : theory, testing and influences

Personality traits : theory, testing and influences /

"The totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics are their personality traits. Personality embraces a person's moods, attitudes, opinions, motivations, and style of thinking, perceiving, speaking, and acting. It is part of what makes each individual distinct....

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Jordan, Melissa E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., 2011
Series:Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
Subjects:
Personality tests.
Personality assessment.
Personality disorders.
Personality Tests
Personality Assessment
Personality Disorders
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • PERSONALITY TRAITS: THEORY, TESTING AND INFLUENCES
  • PERSONALITY TRAITS: THEORY, TESTING AND INFLUENCES
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ADDICTION: FRONTAL PERSONALITY CHANGE BUT NOT PERSONALITY DISORDER COMORBIDITY IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE DISORDERS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Stability vs. Personality Change
  • Stability of Personality Disorders in Samples of Addicts
  • Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Stress
  • Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Impulsivity
  • ""Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Personality Change """"Neuroscientific Perspective of Addiction ""; ""Neuroscientific Perspective of Personality ""; ""Neuroscientific Perspective of Personality Disorders ""; ""A Key Difference: Recovery ""; ""CONCLUSIONS ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND PERSONALITY: A MINIREVIEW ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND EYSENCKâ€?S PERSONALITY MODEL""; ""CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL""; ""CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND CLONINGERâ€?S PERSONALITY MODEL""; ""CONCLUSION ""
  • ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS """"REFERENCES ""; ""THE IMAGINARY COMPANION EXPERIENCE IN ADULTS: ASSET, DISORDER OR PERSONALITY FEATURE? ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IMAGINARY COMPANION ""; ""Overlap between ICs and Dissociative Disorders""; ""Mediating Variables between ICs and Dissociative Disorders ""; ""Overlap between ICs and Other Clinical Disorders ""; ""Cases Only Involving ICs ""; ""Overlap between ICs and Personality Disorders ""; ""Lack of Guidelines on How to Diagnose the ICâ€?s Influence or Effect ""; ""Overly Simplistic Alternatives ""
  • The Fantasy Prone Personality A Functional Method of Regarding ICs
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY TRAITS: AUDITORY HALLUCINATION-LIKE EXPERIENCES AND ATYPICAL HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • METHODS
  • Participants
  • Apparatus
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Questionnaire
  • RESULTS
  • DISCUSSION
  • REFERENCES
  • GENETICS OF PERSONALITITY DISORDERS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. ABOUT PERSONALITY AND ITS DISORDERS
  • 3. PERSONALITY DISORDER AND GENETICS
  • 3.1. Personality Disorders Cluster A and Genetic Studies 3.2. Heritability
  • 3.3. Neuropsychological Markers
  • 3.4 Studies of Molecular Genetics
  • 4. CLUSTER B PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND GENETIC STUDIES
  • 5. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
  • Heritability of Impulsivity
  • 6. PERSONALITY DISORDERS CLUSTER C AND GENETIC STUDIES
  • REFERENCES
  • STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING STUDIES OF THE ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY TRAIT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN ANXIOUS PERSONALITY

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