Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology
, by Robins, Richard W.; Fraley, R. Chris; Krueger, Robert F.- ISBN: 9781606236123 | 1606236121
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/9/2009
Richard W. Robins, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on personality, emotion, and the self. Dr. Robins is coeditor of two forthcoming books, Handbook of Personality and The Self-Conscious Emotions, and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Theoretical Innovation Prize.
R. Chris Fraley, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on adult attachment dynamics, personality processes and development, and research methods. Dr. Fraley serves as Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He received the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
Robert F. Krueger, PhD, is McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His major interests lie at the intersection of research on personality, psychopathology, disorders of personality, behavior genetics, and quantitative methods. Dr. Krueger was the recipient of the Early Career Award from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and the American Psychological Foundation's Theodore Millon Award for midcareer contributions to personality psychology.
Designing A Personality Study | |
The Role of Theory in Personality Research | p. 3 |
Designing and Implementing Longitudinal Studies | p. 21 |
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Personality | p. 37 |
Behavior Genetic Designs | p. 62 |
Idiographic Personality: The Theory and Practice of Experience Sampling | p. 79 |
Psychobiography and Case Study Methods | p. 97 |
Mining Archival Data | p. 114 |
Using the Internet for Personality Research: What Can Be Done, How to Do it, and Some Concerns | p. 130 |
The Null Hypothesis Significance-Testing Debate and Its Implications for Personality Research | p. 149 |
Cross-Cultural Personality Research: Conceptual and Methodological Issues | p. 170 |
Measuring Personality in Nonhuman Animals | p. 190 |
Methods For Assessing Personality at Different Levels of Analysis | |
Taxonomies, Trends, and Integrations | p. 209 |
The Self-Report Method | p. 224 |
The Construct Validation Approach to Personality Scale Construction | p. 240 |
Observer Ratings of Personality | p. 259 |
Behavioral Observation | p. 273 |
Content Coding of Open-Ended Responses | p. 292 |
Personality Assessment at a Distance | p. 308 |
Measuring Implicit Motives | p. 322 |
Lives lived in Milliseconds: Using Cognitive Methods in Personality Research | p. 345 |
Patient and Neuroimaging Methodologies | p. 360 |
Physiological Measures | p. 370 |
The Human Genome Project and Personality: What We Can Learn about Our Inner and Outer Selves through Our Genes | p. 389 |
Analyzing And Interpreting Personality Data | |
Toward Modern Psychometrics: Application of Item Response Theory Models in Personality Research | p. 407 |
Factor Analysis in Personality Research | p. 424 |
Applications of Structural Equation Modeling in Personality Research | p. 444 |
The Importance of Being Valid: Reliability and the Process of Construct Validation | p. 461 |
Evaluating Effect Size in Personality Research | p. 495 |
Multilevel Modeling in Personality Research | p. 502 |
Studying Personality Processes: Explaining Change in Between-Persons Longitudinal and Within-Person Multilevel Models | p. 523 |
The Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Personality Research | p. 543 |
Person-Centered Structural Analyses | p. 557 |
Multiple Regression: Applications of the Basics and Beyond in Personality Research | p. 573 |
Moderator and Mediator Models in Personality Research: A Basic Introduction | p. 602 |
Computational Modeling of Personality as a Dynamical System | p. 633 |
Meta-Analysis in Personality Psychology: A Primer | p. 652 |
What Kinds of Methods Do Personality Psychologists Use?: A Survey of Journal Editors and Editorial Board Members | p. 673 |
Author Index | p. 679 |
Subject Index | p. 701 |
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