Personality Down Under de Simon Boag

Personality Down Under

Simon Boag

This new and important book highlights both the strengths and diversity of research in the field of personality and individual differences research emanating from Australia and surrounding region. This comprehensive book features both the major Australian researchers in the field as well as up and coming writers who look set to have a major global impact. This book is organised into themes which include: (i)the development of personality and individual differences; (ii)personality, perfectionism and stress; (iii)leadership and personality;(iv) personality in the workplace, and; (vii)cognitive dimensions of personality. Within these areas are discussions of narcissism, psychopathy, and attachment styles, as well as Australian perspectives and findings relevant to major theories of personality, such as the Big Five Factor model. The book will also be of interest to organisational psychologists interested in the impact of personality within the workplace, and anyone interested in assessing personality and individual differences will find the theory and assessment section useful. This book provides a unique insight into personality and individual differences from an Australian perspective.

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Introduction; A Brief History of Personality & Individual Differences Research in Australia; Do Personality Types Exist?; Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory & Workplace Motivation; Item Formats & Social Desirability in Personality Assessment: A Review of The Place of Forced-Choice Items; Measuring Mindfulness: The Challenge of Appropriate Sampling; Cascading Constraints: The Role of Early Developmental Deficits in The Formation of Personality Styles; Is Language Necessary For Conscious Thought? Assessing Freuds 'Word/Thing-Presentation' Distinction; Stages of Workplace Innovation: Personal & Situational Influences; Personality Determinants of Success in Medical School & Beyond: "Steady, Sane And Nice"; Does Character Moderate or Mediate The Relationship Between Temperament & Job Performance?; Does Emotional Intelligence Predict Real-World Performance?; Individual Differences in Reward Preferences: What 'Type' of Reward For Which 'Type' of Employee?; Coping with Error in the Workplace; The Big Five in Predicting Leadership Styles of University Students; Personality & the Prevalence of Psychiatric Symptoms in Medicine & Psychology Students; Unanswered Questions in Adolescent Self-Harm: A Closer Look At Impulsivity; Low Emotional Intelligence & Maladaptive Perfectionism; Perfectionism, Occupational Stress & Depression Among Australian University Students; Actors That Mediate the Narcissism-Aggression Link ; Trait Displaced Aggression, Physical Health, & Life Satisfaction: A Process Model; Slime-Bags, Brownnosers & Other Creeps: Moral Disgust as an Interpersonal Avoidance System; A Comparison of Media Violence Effects For Auditory Versus Visual Modalities; Sense of Humour & Lateral Preference Using The Chimeric Faces Task; Are Creative People Tough-Minded, Curious Or Kind?; Index.