Personality and Individual Differences - Softcover

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140519927X ISBN 13: 9781405199278

Publisher: BPS Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership, and vocational interests.

As well as introducing all topics relating to individual differences this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.

• Accompanying website featuring instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters
• Covers BPS syllabus for differential psychology
• Written by a rising star in the field of individual differences
• • New full colour page design
  • More real-life (and informal) examples
  • 20% more figures and tables to use as study-tools and summaries
  • Expanded sections on validity, temperament, creativity and hot intelligence
  • New material on protective and non-psychometric tests

About this title

Book Description

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence. As well as introducing all topics of individual differences this book also examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time, as well as more advanced students of the topic, Personality and Individual Differences is the first single volume providing grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.

From the Back Cover

The study of individual differences is part of a well-established tradition in psychology that dates back more than a century. Individual differences researchers attempt to describe and explain how and why people differ, and what impact or consequences these differences have. Whereas most areas of psychology assume that every person is the same and hence attempt to explain the universal aspects of human behavior, individual difference theories are concerned with differences between people, or what makes everyone unique.

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership and vocational interests.
The second edition is now in full colour, completely revised and updated with the most recent and cutting-edge data and analysis as well as many more real-life examples.

As well as introducing all topics relating to individual differences, this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs.

An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.
In addition, a companion website containing additional teaching and learning resources can be found at www.wiley.com/college/chamorro-premuzic

Edition details

• Publisher: BPS Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 140519927X
• ISBN 13: 9781405199278
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 458