Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521587488)

Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials is a comprehensive survey of contemporary research and theory in personality psychology. The book provides balanced coverage of biological, cognitive, affective, social, and interpersonal determinants of personality functioning and individual differences. The authors organize these factors within an overarching theoretical framework that highlights the dynamic transactions between individuals and the sociocultural environment, and the human capacities for self-reflection and self-regulation. The book's broad, integrative approach to the study of personality reveals how advances throughout the psychological sciences illuminate the classic questions of personality psychology.

Author: Gian Vittorio Caprara
ISBN-10: 0521587484
ISBN-13: 9780521587488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2000
Pages: 506
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.06h x 7.02w x 1.01d