Product Description

Personality research has been transformed by recent advances in our understanding of personality traits. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of research on traits. It discusses how they are defined and measured, and shows that they are central to personality. The authors review the origins of traits in biological and social processes, and their consequences for cognition, performance and mental and physical health. Contrary to the traditional view of personality reasearch as a collection of disconnected theories, this study presents an integrated account that links theory-driven research with applications in clinical and occupational psychology. Personality Traits is an essential, up-to-date resource for researchers of personality and differential psychology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1366510 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 319 pages

Review
"Matthews and Deary have written a timely update on the state of personality psychology. Highly recommended for graduate students, researchers, faculty, and upper-division undergraduates if carefully guided." Choice

"The Matthews and Deary book is refreshing in that it provides an up-to-date summary of what has been happening in journals concerned with the scientific study of personality...I have had considerable difficulty in finding a personality text that I can recommend to students with confidence that it will address substantial scientific issues rather than drift around the 'hall of fame' viewing grandiose and obsolete theories, and this is the best I have found to date." Pergamon