Handbook of Personality Development (eBook)

Dan P. McAdams, PhD, is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Past president of the Association for Research in Personality, he is a recipient of the Henry A. Murray Award for the study of lives and the Jack Block Award for career contributions from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Division 8 of the American Psychological Association (APA); the Theodore Sarbin Award from APA Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology); and the William James Book Award from APA Division 1 (General Psychology). Dr. McAdams's research focuses on concepts of self and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy, redemption, and generativity across the adult life course. He has published nearly 300 scientific articles and chapters and numerous books, including, most recently, Handbook of Personality Development and The Art and Science of Personality Development.   Rebecca L. Shiner, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Colgate University. Her research centers on temperament and personality trait development in children, adolescents, and young adults, including structure, stability and change, and links to positive life outcomes and the emergence of psychopathology. She was a consultant to the DSM-5 Personality Disorders Work Group, served as Executive Officer of the Association for Research in Personality, and is a past associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality. Dr. Shiner has held many leadership roles at Colgate University, including Psychology Department Chair and Director of the Residential Commons.   Jennifer L. Tackett, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on child and adolescent personality and externalizing and disinhibitory psychopathology in youth. Much of her work emphasizes assessment, measurement, and construct validation approaches. Dr. Tackett is the recipient of early career awards from the Society for Personality Assessment, the Society for Research in Psychopathology, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. She is currently a senior editor of the journal Collabra: Psychology and an associate editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.  

I. Personality Development and Human Nature 1. The Emergence of Personality, Dan P. McAdams 2. The Evolutionary Context of Personality Development, Marco Del Giudice 3. Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob & Daniel A. Briley 4. The Development of a Person: A Relational–Developmental Systems Perspective, Richard M. Lerner & Jacqueline V. Lerner II. Social Actors: From Temperament to Personality Traits 5. Personality Neuroscience: A Developmental Perspective, Colin G. DeYoung & Timothy A. Allen 6. Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: A Developmental Model of Links between Temperament and Personality, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Alicia Vallorani, & Berenice Anaya 7. Extraversion: Description, Development, and Mechanisms, Luke D. Smillie, Margaret L. Kern, & Mirko Uljarevic 8. Negative Emotionality and Neuroticism from Childhood through Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective, Rebecca L. Shiner 9. Lifespan Development of Conscientiousness, Joshua J. Jackson & Patrick Hill 10. Agreeableness, Jennifer L. Tackett, Maciel Hernández, & Nancy Eisenberg 11. The Structure, Measurement, and Development of Openness to Experience across Adulthood, Ted Schwaba 12. Temperament and Personality Trait Development in the Family: Interactions and Transactions with Parenting from Infancy through Adolescence, Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein, & Peter Prinzie 13. Culture, Context, and the Development of Traits, Helena R. Slobodskaya 14. Stability and Change in Personality Traits over the Lifespan, Wiebke Bleidorn & Christopher J. Hopwood III. Motivated Agents: The Development of Goals and Values 15. Attachment and Social Development within a Life-History Perspective, Jeffry A. Simpson & Rachel E. Jones 16. Needs, Motives, and Personality Development: Unanswered Questions and Exciting Potentials, Kennon M. Sheldon & Julia Schüler 17. Achievement Strivings: Motives and Goals that Promote Competence, Amanda M. Durik & K. Ann Renninger 18. Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective, Alexandra M. Freund, Christopher M. Napolitano, & Joshua L. Rutt 19. Development of Self-Esteem across the Lifespan, Ulrich Orth & Richard W. Robins 20. Moral Development and Moral Values: Evolutionary and Neurobiological Influences, Darcia Narvaez 21. Religion, Spirituality, and the Agential Self, Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, & Dan Farina 22. Culture and the Development of Motives, Values, and Social Selves, Gary S. Gregg IV. Autobiographical Authors: Life Stories and the Search for Meaning 23. Developmental Foundations of the Narrative Author in Early Mother–Child Reminiscing, Robyn Fivush, Elaine Reese, & Jordan A. Booker 24. Narrative Identity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Pathways of Development, Kate C. McLean & Jennifer P. Lilgendahl 25. Narrative Identity Development across the Lifespan and Psychological Well-Being, Jonathan M. Adler 26. Narrative, Identity, and Identity Statuses: Reflections on the Kaleidoscopic Self, Ruthellen Josselson 27. The Dialogic Development of Personality: Narrative, Culture, and the Study of Lives, Phillip L. Hammack & Erin E. Toolis V. Applications and Integrations 28. Personality Development and Health, Sarah E. Hampson 29. The Development of Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan, Nathan Hudson, Richard E. Lucas, & M. Brent Donnellan 30. Personality Development and Internalizing Psychopathology, C. Emily Durbin 31. Personality Development and Externalizing Psychopathology, Michelle M. Martel, Tess E. Smith, & Christine A. Lee 32. The Development of Personality Disorders, Andrew M. Chanen & Katherine M. Thompson 33. Personality Development and Relationships in Adulthood, Jennifer M. Senia & M. Brent Donnellan