Paradigms of Personality Assessment - Hardcover

Wiggins, Jerry S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157230913X ISBN 13: 9781572309135

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2003

Synopsis

From distinguished scholar and teacher Jerry S. Wiggins, this book is a uniquely integrative introduction to adult personality assessment that will engage graduate and undergraduate students alike. Part I thoroughly reviews five major assessment paradigms--psychodynamic, interpersonal, personological, multivariate, and empirical. In Part II, leading representatives of each paradigm are invited to interpret extensive test and interview data collected from a single subject. The resulting "collaborative case study" facilitates comparison of techniques, theories, and interpretations; illuminates the unique contributions of each paradigm; and suggests areas of common ground and potential integration.

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About the Author

Jerry S. Wiggins, PhD, has been contributing to the scientific literature in personality assessment for over 45 years. He has held faculty positions at Rochester University (1956/n-/1957), Stanford University (1957/n-/1962), the University of Illinois (1962/n-/1973), and the University of British Columbia (1973/n-/1996), where he is Emeritus Professor. He also served as an adjunct professor at York University. Widely published, Dr. Wiggins is well known for his construction of the original content scales for the MMPI and for his contributions to the development and validation of interpersonal circumplex models of personality. He is the author of the Interpersonal Adjective Scales (including the revised, Big Five version) and coauthor of the Inventory for Interpersonal Problems/m-/Circumplex. He has also served as an editorial board member and/or ad hoc reviewer for numerous psychology journals. In 2002, Dr. Wiggins was honored by the Society for Personality Assessment with the Bruno Klopfer Award for his outstanding, long-term contributions to the field of personality assessment.

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I. The Five Paradigms and Their Convergences
1. The Psychodynamic Paradigm
2. The Interpersonal Paradigm
3. The Personological Paradigm
4. The Multivariate Paradigm
5. The Empirical Paradigm
6. Convergences among Paradigms: The Individual and Society

II. A Collaborative Case Study
7. Personological Assessment
McAdams
8. Psychodynamic Assessment
Behrends and Blatt
9. Interpersonal Assessment
Pincus and Gurtman
10. Multivariate Assessment
Costa and Piedmont
11. Empirical Assessment
Ben-Porath
12. Constructive Alternativism in Personality Assessment
Trobst and Wiggins
Coda
Trobst
Appendix A. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Protocol
Appendix B-1. Rorschach Protocol
Appendix B-2. Rorschach Scoring
Appendix B-3. Rorschach Scoring Summary
Appendix C. Object Relations Inventory (ORI) Protocol

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157230913X
• ISBN 13: 9781572309135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386