Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052140052X ISBN 13: 9780521400527

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Motivation and Personality is the first book to be devoted primarily to content analysis systems for assessment of characteristics of the individuals, groups, or historical periods that create verbal materials. Part I discusses general issues including the merits of content analysis and its relation to other contemporary methods of motivation and personality assessment, the determinants of thematic apperception and the use of thematic methods in survey research and for the analysis of archival and naturally-occurring verbal materials. Part II presents 14 different coding manuals, each with an introductory chapter, and Part III deals with methodological considerations and materials for learning how to obtain and code verbal materials. The volume will serve as a handbook for researchers who wish to use content analytic methods for research in personology, experimental psychology, or social science, and also as a reference work providing information about content analytic measures of motives for achievement, affiliation, intimacy, and power, as well as measures of personal causation, conceptual complexity, uncertainty orientation, explanatory style, psychological stances toward the environment, self-definition, and responsibility. The various systems, research regarding the background of the systems, and practice materials are included to create a book that is both reference and handbook.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first book to be devoted primarily to content analysis systems for assessing the characteristics of the individuals, groups, or historical periods which create verbal materials. Manuals for using the systems and research into their background are included, making this both a work of reference and a handbook.

Review:

"...will further entrench thematic approaches in psychological research for years to come...indispenable addition to the library of personality researchers and clinicians." Richard M. Ryan and T. Cameron Wild, Contemprary Psychology

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 052140052X
• ISBN 13: 9780521400527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 728
• Editor: Smith Charles P.