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PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: NEW RESEARCH No part of this digital document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means. The publisher has taken reasonable care in the preparation of this digital document, but makes no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of information contained herein. This digital document is sold with the clear understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, medical or any other professional services. PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: NEW RESEARCH LAUREN B. PALCROFT AND MELISSA V. LOPEZ EDITORS Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. 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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Available upon request. ISBN: 978-1-60876-799-1 (E-Book) Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.   New York 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 vi Contents 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

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