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• Personality Traits
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Preface to the third edition
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Part I The nature of personality traits
• 1 The trait concept and personality theory
• Introduction: conceptions of traits
• A brief history of traits
• Psychometric approaches to identifying personality dimensions
• Primary factors of personality: the 16PF and other questionnaires
• Higher-order factors: the ‘Big Five’ or the ‘Gigantic Three’?
• Current conceptions of personality structure
• Conclusions
• 2 Persons, situations and interactionism
• Traits and situations
• Are traits universal across cultures?
• Conclusions
• 3 Personality across the life span
• Trait stability
• Temperament
• Temperament, personality and stability: longitudinal studies
• Conclusions
• 4 Stable traits and transient states
• Introduction: the place of states in trait theory
• Trait-state models
• State dimensions: affect, mood and self-report arousal
• Beyond mood: additional state domains
• Traits and states: empirical studies
• Conclusions
• 5 Alternative views of personality: challenges to trait theory
• Traits in psychodynamic theory
• The unconscious: contemporary studies
• Assessment of implicit traits
• Humanistic and phenomenological approaches
• Conclusions
• Part II Causes of personality traits
• 6 Genes, environments and personality traits
• Introduction
• Twin studies
• Other research designs
• Genes, environment and multiple personality traits
• Further issues in genetic research
• Molecular genetic studies of personality
• Conclusions
• 7 The psychobiology of traits
• Introduction: neuropsychological approaches to personality
• Ground-plans for neuropsychological theory
• Psychophysiological techniques: an outline and examples
• Personality and brain imaging
• Personality and arousal: towards an integrated theory?
• Personality and sensitivity to motivational stimuli
• Psychophysiology: where next?
• Conclusions
• 8 The social psychology of traits
• Introduction: personality and social behaviour
• Personality development: social-psychological perspectives
• Consistencies in social knowledge and cognition
• Traits and processes: agreeableness and social behaviour
• ‘Social-psychological’ traits
• A rapprochement between social psychology and trait theory?
• Conclusions
• Part III Consequences and applications
• 9 Stress
• Introduction: the nature of stress
• Stress and physiological reactivity
• Neuroticism and stress vulnerability
• Transactional perspectives on personality and stress: mediator and moderator hypotheses
• Neuroticism, stress and emotional disorders: a self-regulative perspective
• Conclusions
• 10 Traits and health
• Introduction
• Heart disease
• Cancer
• Neuroticism as a risk factor for multiple diseases
• Stress and health
• Traits and health-related behaviours
• Life course approaches to personality, stress and illness
• Models of psychosomatic illness
• Conclusions
• 11 Abnormal personality traits?
• Personality disorders: concept and classification
• Problems with personality disorders in current categorical systems
• Are there abnormal personality traits?
• Personality disorders and models of normal personality: integrating psychiatry and differential psychology?
• Conclusions
• 12 Personality, performance and information processing
• Performance studies and trait theory
• Theories of personality and performance
• Extraversion-introversion and performance
• Trait anxiety, neuroticism and performance
• Personality and intelligence
• Conclusions
• 13 Applications of personality assessment
• Principles of trait assessment
• Educational and clinical applications
• Personality and job performance
• Organisational psychology: further applications
• Emotional intelligence
• Conclusions
• 14 Conclusions
• Achievements of trait research
• Towards a theory of traits
• Traits and the coherence of personality theory
• Conclusions
• References
• Author index
• Subject index