Personality Psychology: An Open Access Textbook

Patrick Durkee

134 pages
0.7 MB
PDF

A brand-new open textbook built around the Big Five personality traits. It covers how the model was discovered, how personality tests are checked for reliability and validity, the person-situation debate and how traits change across life.

Loading the book...

Found it useful? Share it

Download PDF Verified PDF · Secure download

Keep reading

Next in this topic
The Balance of Personality
Chris Allen · 242 pages

A university textbook that opens with personality traits, the Five-Factor Model, stability and personality assessment, then compares classic theorists from Freud and Horney to Rogers and Bandura. Each chapter ends with key vocabulary.

Read Download
Verified PDF · Secure download
Personality - A Six-Day Unit Lesson Plan for High School Psychology Teachers
Simine Vazire · 72 pages

A ready-to-teach unit from the American Psychological Association on personality perspectives, the Big Five traits and personality assessment. It includes lesson plans, class activities and critical-thinking exercises for high school teachers.

Read Download
Verified PDF · Secure download
VIA Character Strengths: Theory, Research and Practice
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia, Philippe Dubreuil and Maria Christina Meyers (eds.) · 195 pages

A research collection on the 24 VIA character strengths, the positive side of personality traits. The studies look at how strengths like curiosity, kindness and perseverance are measured and how they relate to well-being and work.

Read Download
Verified PDF · Secure download
Physique and Character
Ernst Kretschmer · 348 pages

Ernst Kretschmer's classic theory of temperament, which linked body types to personality styles. A key historical text for anyone studying how psychologists first tried to classify temperament and character.

Read Download
Verified PDF · Secure download
Working with Offenders with Personality Disorder: A Practitioners Guide
NHS England and National Offender Management Service · 152 pages

A 150-page practitioner guide on how personality disorders develop, how they are assessed and how staff can build working relationships with people who have them. It covers attachment, trauma, risk and staff well-being.

Read Download
Verified PDF · Secure download