Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Personality Processes and Individuals Differences (eBook)

Bernardo J. Carducci, PhD, was professor of psychology at Indiana University Southeast where he taught classes on personality psychology and introductory psychology for 37 years, and was director of the IU Southeast Shyness Research Institute. He authored several books on shyness, including The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk: How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere About Anything and Shyness: A Bold New Approach. His text, Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications, is currently in its third edition. Christopher Nave, PhD, is the Managing Director of the interdisciplinary Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of expertise include multi-method design, behavioral observation, personality stability, personality judgment and well-being. His publications have appeared in top academic journals and handbooks and have been featured in the popular press.

Contributor Biographies xi

Adaptability 1

Aggression, Personality Correlates 7

Altruism 13

Alexithymia 19

Androgyny, Expression of 25

Anger 31

Anxiety 37

Authoritarianism 43

Personality Correlates of Behavioral Inhibition/Activation 49

Big Five Model of Personality 55

Cognitive and Personality Correlates of Achievement 61

Compassion 67

Compulsive Personality 73

Coping 79

Core Self-Evaluation 83

Creativity 89

Culture and Personality 95

Dark Triad 101

Decisional Styles 107

Defense Mechanisms, Contemporary Perspectives 113

Depression 119

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed.: DSM-5 125

Empathy, Personality Correlates of 131

Emotional Competence 137

Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship, Personality Correlates of 143

Evolutionary Theory and Personality Correlates of Mate Selection 149

Eysenck Giant Three 155

Extraversion, Personality Correlates of 161

Flow 167

Gender Differences in Aggression 173

Gender Differences in Perceived Traits of Men and Women 179

Gender Differences in Self-esteem and Self-confidence 185

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being 191

General Personality Factor 195

Genetic Basis of Personality 201

Gene-Environment Interaction 207

Genius, Personality Correlates of 211

Guilt 217

Health and Personality 221

Honesty 227

Hopelessness 231

Hostility, Personality Correlates of 237

Impulsivity 243

Intuition 249

Policy Researcher and Educator: Originally it was Independent Researcher and Policy Analyst 255

Judgments of Personality 261

Learned Helplessness 269

Life Satisfaction 275

Locus of Control, Personality Correlates of 281

Loneliness 287

Mindfulness 293

Motivation (Achievement, Affiliation, Power) 299

Neuroticism, Personality Correlates of 305

Obsessive Personality 311

Optimism and Pessimism: Conceptualization, Personality Correlates, and Contextual Considerations 317

Perfectionism 323

Persistence, Personality Correlates 329

Personality Development 335

Phobia 339

Positive Self-capital 345

Psychopathy 351

Religiosity 357

Risk Taking 363

Self-concept, Expressions of the 369

Self-control 375

Self-construal 381

Self-efficacy 387

Self-efficacy, Career 393

Self-esteem, Expressions of 399

Self-regulation 405

Sensation Seeking 411

Shyness 417

16PF, Correlates of 423

Social Desirability 429

Social Intelligence 435

Temperament, Personality Correlates of 439

Test Anxiety 445

Trauma 451

Trustworthiness 457

Twin Studies and Personality 461

Unconscious Processes, Expression of Personality Process 465

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 469

Jeffrey A. Gray 473

Douglas N. Jackson 479

John F. Kihlstrom 483

Salvatore R. Maddi 489

Julie K. Norem 493

Robert J. Plomin 497

Julian B. Rotter 501

Mark Savickas 505

Dean Keith Simonton 511

Marvin Zuckerman 517

Raymond B. Cattell 521

Index 529