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"In this book, the authors aim to provide the reader with a firm grounding in the principles necessary to a scientific understanding of personality. Since we intend this as a beginning book in the subject matter, we do not assume extensive knowledge of psychological concepts on the part of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baughman, E. Earl (Emmett Earl), Welsh, George Schlager (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Series:Prentice-Hall psychology series.
Subjects:
Personality.
Personnalité.
Persoonlijkheidstheorieën.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Personality as a scientific study
  • Chapter 1: Science and personality
  • Chapter 2: Some basic issues and assumptions
  • Chapter 3: The historical background
  • Part 2: Personality development
  • Chapter 4: The beginning stages
  • Chapter 5: Temperament
  • Chapter 6: The family as a determinant: child-training practices
  • Chapter 7: The family as a determinant: role-definition
  • Chapter 8: Determinants outside the family
  • Part 3: Personality description and assessment
  • Chapter 9: Freud's psychoanalytic concepts and their assessment
  • Chapter 10: Traits and their assessment
  • Chapter 11: The self-concept and its assessment
  • Part 4: Some special problems
  • Chapter 12: Fantasy: dreams and daydreams
  • Chapter 13: Anxiety
  • Chapter 14: Personality deviations
  • Chapter 15: The prediction of behavior.