| Summary: | This book offers researchers and students an important resource that explores the rich diversity of personality as both a virtue and a vice. The editors argue that a more balanced persective of personality may help prevent overly biased or unbalance clinical or educational formations and profiles and, in contrast, may help foster a genuine empathetic connection with clients and students. Leading researchers focus on some of the most notable personality variables that have garnered the attention of researchers and scholars over the past decades, including self-esteem, optimism, intelligence, personal control, rumination, perfectionism, and neuroticism. The editors appeal for researchers and scholars to examine their assumptions about personality, which are rooted in philosophical notions of good and bad, and argue that a balanced view is essential for true understanding of human nature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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