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Title:Personality Assessment : New Research
Author:Lauren B Palcroft & Melissa V Lopez (eds)
ISBN:1606927965 : 9781606927960
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:421
Weight: 1.078 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - August 2009
List Price: 74.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:The self, ego, identity, personality


Personality assessment is the determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. What, then, are the common properties of assessment, regardless of which area is examined? It is proposed that there are three common denominators: (a) Decisions, (b) Procedures, and (c) Data acquisition. In general, assessment may be defined as a procedure whereby data is collected for decision-making purposes. Specifically, then, psychological assessment is a procedure whereby data is collected for making decisions about people. Such a definition. although short and simple, has a major advantage in emphasising the role of decision-making in assessment. This book presents the latest research developments in the field.

Preface; Child and Adolescent Personality Development and Assessment: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach; Integrating evidence-based treatment into an attachment guided curriculum in a therapeutic preschool: Initial Findings; Assessing Individuals for Team "Worthiness": Investigating the Intersection of the Big Five Personality Factors, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Teamwork Aptitude; Weight? Wait! Importance Weighting of Satisfaction Scores in Quality of Life Assessment; A Psycho-social Approach to Meanings and Functions of Trait Labels; Properties of JEPQRA and JEPQRS/A: Comparing the Psychometric Properties of the Common Items in the Short and Abbreviated Versions of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaires: A Mean and Covariance Structures Analysis Approach; Successful Psychopathy: Unresolved Issues and Future Directions; Score Reliability in Personality Research; Restyling Personality Assessments; Use and Interpretation of Likert-type Scales: Theory and Practice in The Use and Interpretation of Likert-type Scales within a cross-cultural Context; Construct and Response Bias Correlates in Summated Scale Definitions of Personality Traits; Procrastination and The Five-Factor Model: Academic and Everyday Procrastination and their Relation to The Five-Factor Model; Social Dominance Orientation, Ambivalent Sexism, and Abortion: Explaining Pro-choice and Pro-life Attitudes; Factor Structure, Sex Effects and Differential Item Functioning of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised; Online Collaborative Learning: The Challenge of Change; The Influence of Personality and Symptoms Severity on Functioning in Patients with Schizophrenia; Tell Me How it Sounds and I Tell You How You Feel: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test; Structured MMPI-2 Client Feedback in the Identification of Potential Supplemental Targets of Change; Beyond the Traits of The Five Factor Model: Using Deviant Personality Traits to Predict Deviant Behavior in Organizations; On The Test-Retest Reliability of The Autobiographical Memory Test; Index.