Personality assessment : new research

443 Pages·2009·6.78 MB·English

by  Lopez, Melissa V., Palcroft, Lauren B.

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: NEW
RESEARCH

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PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: NEW
RESEARCH

LAUREN B. PALCROFT
AND
MELISSA V. LOPEZ
EDITORS

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CONTENTS

Preface ix
Research and Review Studies
Chapter 1 Child and Adolescent Personality Development and Assessment:
A Developmental Psychopathology Approach 1
Tina D. Du Rocher Schudlich, Ryan C. Erps, Britnee Davenport
and Alyssa Hertel
Chapter 2 Integrating Evidence-Based Treatment into an Attachment Guided
Curriculum in a Therapeutic Preschool: Initial Findings 47
Karen Stubenbort, Veronica Trybalski, and Krista Zaccagn.
Chapter 3 Assessing Individuals for Team “Worthiness”: Investigating
the Intersection of the Big Five Personality Factors, Organizational
Citizenship Behavior, and Teamwork Aptitude 63
Janet L. Kottke and Shinko Kimura
Chapter 4 Personality Traits and Daily Moods 95
Cristina Ottaviani, David Shapiro, Iris Goldstei
and Valerie Gofman
Chapter 5 Weight? Wait! Importance Weighting of Satisfaction Scores
in Quality of Life Assessment 109
Chia-huei Wu
Chapter 6 A Psycho-Social Approach to Meanings and Functions
of Trait Labels 141
Astrid Mignon and Patrick Mollaret
Chapter 7 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 171
Rapson Gomez and Andre Gomez
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Chapter 8 Successful Psychopathy: Unresolved Issues and Future Directions 187
Kristin Landfield, Meredith Jones and Scott Lilienfeld
Chapter 9 Score Reliability in Personality Research 205
Matt Vassar, Denna L. Wheeler and Jody A. Worley
Chapter 10 Restyling Personality Assessments 223
Willem K.B. Hofstee
Chapter 11 Theory and Practice in the Use and Interpretation of Likert-Type
Scales within a Cross-Cultural Context 237
Boaz Shulruf
Chapter 12 Construct and Response Bias Correlates in Summated Scale
Definitions of Personality Traits 259
John T. Kulas and Alicia A. Stachowski
Chapter 13 Academic and Everyday Procrastination and their Relation
to the Five-Factor Model 275
Gidi Rubenstein
Chapter 14 Personality and Attitude Toward Dreams 289
Barbara Szmigielska and Małgorzata Hołda
Chapter 15 Social Dominance Orientation, Ambivalent Sexism, and Abortion:
Explaining Pro-choice and Pro-life Attitudes 309
Danny Osborne and Paul G. Davies
Chapter 16 Factor Structure, Sex Effects and Differential Item Functioning
of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised -
Abbreviated: A Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes Approach 321
Rapson Gomez and Andre Gomez
Short Communications 333
Online Collaborative Learning: The Challenge of Change 335
Baruch Offir, Ingrid Barth and Orit Zeichner
The Influence of Personality and Symptoms Severity
on Functioning in Patients with Schizophrenia 347
Ana Fresan, María García-Anaya, Rogelio Apiquian

and Humberto Nicolini
Circumventing Self-Reflection When Measuring Emotions: The
Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT) 361
Markus Quirin, Miguel Kazén and Julius Kuhl
Structured MMPI-2 Client Feedback in the Identification
of Potential Supplemental Targets of Change 371
Alan R. King and Joseph C. Miller
Contents vii
Beyond the Traits of the Five Factor Model: Using Deviant
Personality Traits to Predict Deviant Behavior in Organizations 383
James M. LeBreton and Jane Wu
On the Test-Retest Reliability of the Autobiographical
Memory Test 391
Filip Raes, J. Mark G. Williams and Dirk Hermans
Index 399