(P/B) DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY

Παρουσίαση

This is the original work on which Hans Eysenck's fifty years of research have been built. It introduced many new ideas about the nature and measurement of personality into the field, related personality to abnormal psychology, and demonstrated the possibility of testing personality theory experimentally. The book is the result of a concentrated and cooperative effort to discover the main dimensions of personality, and to define them operationally, that is, by means of strictly experimental, quantitative procedures. More than three dozen separate researches were carried out on some 10.000 normal and neurotic subjects by a research team of psychologists and psychiatrists.
In his new introduction, Eysenck discusses the difficulty he had in conveying this belief to scientists from opposite ends of the psychology spectrum when he first began work on this book. He goes on to explain the basis from which Dimensions of Personality developed. Central to any concept of personality, he states, must be hierarchies of traits organized into a dimensional system. The two major dimensions he posited, neuroticism and extraversion, were in disfavor with most scientists of personality at the time. Now they form part of practically all descriptions of personality. Dimensions of Personality is a landmark study and should be read by both students and professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and sociology. (From the publisher)

"The importance of this book is not in the specific variables that Eysenck chose to study, but in his vision of an objective, nomothetic, dimensional trait approach and the major role of genetic-psychobiological factors in dimensions of personality and psychopathology. Eysenck is now generally acknowledged to be among the greatest psychologists of the half-century. Dimensions was his first manifesto to which we must return in order to trace the origin of the path which led us to where we are now, and the intrepid explorer who found that path." (Marvin Zuckerman, University of Delaware)

Περιεχόμενα

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
FOREWORD, BY PROFESSOR A. LEWIS
INTRODUCTION
- METHODS AND DEFINITIONS
- ASSESSMENTS AND RATINGS
- PHYSIQUE AND CONSTITUTION
- ABILITY AND EFFICIENCY
- SUGGESTIBILITY AND HYPNOSIS
- APPRECIATION AND EXPRESSION
- SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIXES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX