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The revised NEO Personality Inventory : clinical and research applications /

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The Revised NEO Personality Inventory is the first practical guide to the use and interpretation of the NEO PI-R, the only commercially available instrument to assess personality on the dimensions of the Five-Factor Model. Unlike instruments that emphasize only psychopathology, the NEO PI-R identifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piedmont, Ralph L., 1958-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1998]
Series:Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.
Subjects:
NEO Personality Inventory.
NEO Five-Factor Inventory.
Personality Tests.
Persoonlijkheidstests.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Personality and Its Assessment
  • What Is Personality?
  • Genotype and Phenotype
  • Change and Stability in Personality
  • The Value of Personality Assessment in a Clinical Context
  • The Clinical Yield from Personality Assessment
  • Qualities of Personality
  • What Is a Taxonomy?
  • Taxonomy versus Typology
  • The Value of a Taxonomy for Personality Assessment
  • The Lexigraphic Hypothesis
  • Searching for a Linguistic Structure
  • From Adjectives to Sentences: The NEO Model
  • Recommendations for Approaching This Book
  • Psychometric Overview of the NEO PI-R
  • Outline of Scales
  • Reliability
  • Factor Structure
  • The Question of Comprehensiveness
  • Correspondence between the NEO PI-R and Other Measurement Models
  • What the NEO PI-R Can Tell Us about Other Scales
  • The Question of Self-Distortion
  • Self-Peer Congruence
  • The Reverse Acquaintanceship Effect
  • The Logic of Assessment Using the NEO PI-R
  • Normal versus Abnormal Personality
  • The Five-Factor Model and Its Relations to Clinical Behavior
  • Robustness of the Five-Factor Model
  • Heritability
  • Cross-Cultural Generalizability
  • Theoretical Foundation
  • Interpreting the NEO PI-R
  • The Use of Validity Scales in Assessment
  • Social Desirability
  • Content-Free Validity Scales
  • The Value and Limits of Self-Report Data
  • NEO PI-R Facet Scales and Their Interpretations
  • Neuroticism
  • Extraversion
  • Openness to Experience
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness
  • NEO PI-R Interpretations and Select Case Profiles
  • Providing Feedback.