The Postconventional Personality: Assessing, Researching, and Theorizing Higher Development

The Postconventional Personality......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 9
Introduction: Exceptional Maturity of Personality: An Emerging Field......Page 11
Part I. Assessing Advanced Personality Development......Page 17
1. Assessing Postconventional Personality: How Valid and Reliable is the Sentence Completion Test?......Page 19
2. My Brain Made Me Do It: Brain Maturation and Levels of Self-Development......Page 33
3. Generating and Measuring Practical Differences inLeadership Performance at Postconventional Action-Logics: Developing the Harthill Leadership Development Profifile......Page 49
4. A Report from the Scoring Trenches......Page 67
Part II. Emerging Research About Postconventional Development......Page 83
5. The Issue of Highest Stages in Structural-Developmental Theories......Page 85
6. Exploring Facilitative Agents that Allow Ego Development to Occur......Page 97
7. The Postconventional Self: Ego Maturity, Growth Stories . . . and Happiness?......Page 111
8. Postconventional Ego Development and Self-Transcendence in Religious Renunciates......Page 129
9. Leadership at Postconventional Stages of Adult Development......Page 143
Part III. Theories of Advanced Development......Page 161
10. Is Higher Better?A Review and Analysis of the Correlates of Postconventional Ego Development......Page 163
11. The Challenge of Ego Development Intentional versus Active Development......Page 173
12. Transcendent Experience and Development of the Postrepresentational Self......Page 185
13. Believing As If: Postconventional Stages, Cognitive Complexity, and Postformal Religious Constructions......Page 199
14. A Dynamical View of the Personality in Evolution......Page 215
15. The Prism Self Revisited: The Matter of Integrity......Page 231
References......Page 243
List of Contributors......Page 273
C......Page 279
G......Page 280
M......Page 281
P......Page 282
S......Page 283
W......Page 284