The discipline of personality psychology can be viewed as responsible for explaining how a person's major psychological subsystems — motives, emotion, cognition, the self, and more — work together. Today personality psychology is undergoing a renaissance in which new research and theory is emerging. This textbook helps students keep up with those emerging trends.
Personality: A Systems Approach employs a new organization that integrates the best intellectual traditions within Personality Psychology. Over its four parts, the book examines what personality is, what personality’s major subsystems (e.g., motives, the self) are, how personality’s parts are organized, and how personality develops. Students will finish the course with an understanding of how personality systems work together and how personality develops from birth to the conclusion of life.
Pesonality: A Systems Approach is accompanied by an extensive On-Line Instructor's Manual designed to make the transition to this new, updated, approach as easy as possible, and to support instructors once the transition has been made as well. A book of readings, Readings in Personality Psychology, is designed expressly to fit in with the approach as well.
