| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colored) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 5, 2020) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested in teaching about theory and research on personality. |
| Note |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercia-ShareAlikel 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Contents |
1 Personality Traits -- 2 Personality Stability -- 3 Personality Assessment -- 4 Sigmund Freud, Karen Horney, Nancy Chodorow: Viewpoints on Psychodynamic Theory -- 5 Carl Jung -- 6 Humanistic and Existential Theory: Frankl, Rogers, and Maslow -- 7 The Nature-Nurture Question -- 8 Self-Regulation and Conscientiousness -- 9 Personality Disorders -- 10 Happiness: The Science of Subjective Well-Being -- 11 Yoga, Buddhism, Personality and Non-Personality |
| Local Note |
Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
| Subject |
Personality -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Personality. |
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Personality development.
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Personality development. |
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Personality -- Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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