Handbook of Personality Development

Cover......Page 1
Half Title Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
About the Editors......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Contents......Page 15
Part I. Personality Development and Human Nature......Page 19
 1. The Emergence of Personality......Page 21
 2. The Evolutionary Context of Personality Development......Page 38
 3. Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development......Page 58
 4. The Development of a Person: A Relational–Developmental Systems Perspective......Page 77
Part II. Social Actors: From Temperament to Personality Traits......Page 95
 5. Personality Neuroscience: A Developmental Perspective......Page 97
 6. Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: A Developmental Model of Links between Temperament and Personality......Page 124
 7. Extraversion: Description, Development, and Mechanisms......Page 136
 8. Negative Emotionality and Neuroticism from Childhood through Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective......Page 155
 9. Lifespan Development of Conscientiousness......Page 171
 10. Agreeableness......Page 189
 11. The Structure, Measurement, and Development of Openness to Experience across Adulthood......Page 203
 12. Temperament and Personality Trait Development in the Family: Interactions and Transactions with Parenting from Infancy through Adolescence......Page 219
 13. Culture, Context, and the Development of Traits......Page 239
 14. Stability and Change in Personality Traits over the Lifespan......Page 255
Part III. Motivated Agents: The Development of Goals and Values......Page 271
 15. Attachment and Social Development within a Life-History Perspective......Page 275
 16. Needs, Motives, and Personality Development Unanswered Questions and Exciting Potentials......Page 294
 17. Achievement Strivings Motives and Goals That Promote Competence......Page 313
 18. Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective......Page 331
 19. Development of Self-Esteem across the Lifespan......Page 346
 20. Moral Development and Moral Values Evolutionary and Neurobiological Influences......Page 363
 21. Religion, Spirituality, and the Agential Self......Page 382
 22. Culture and the Development of Motives, Values, and Social Selves......Page 398
Part IV. Autobiographical Authors: Life Stories and the Search for Meaning......Page 415
 23. Developmental Foundations of the Narrative Author in Early Mother–Child Reminiscing......Page 417
 24. Narrative Identity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Pathways of Development......Page 436
 25. Narrative Identity Development across the Lifespan and Psychological Well-Being......Page 451
 26. Narrative, Identity, and Identity Statuses: Reflections on the Kaleidoscopic Self......Page 466
 27. The Dialogic Development of Personality: Narrative, Culture, and the Study of Lives......Page 483
Part V. Applications and Integrations......Page 505
 28. Personality Development and Health......Page 507
 29. The Development of Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan......Page 521
 30. Personality Development and Internalizing Psychopathology......Page 536
 31. Personality Development and Externalizing Psychopathology......Page 552
 32. The Development of Personality Disorders......Page 569
 33. Personality Development and Relationships in Adulthood......Page 590
Author Index......Page 607
Subject Index......Page 627