Personality As An Affect-Processing System : Toward An Integrative Theory.

At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2002.
Temas:
Personality.
Personnalité.
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction and Orientation
  • Intention of This Book
  • Phenomena Stimulating the Theory
  • 2 Some Logical, Psycho-Logical, and Definitional Matters
  • Two Kinds of Psychological Variables
  • Regarding "Risk" and "Protective" Factors
  • What Shall We Mean by Resilience?
  • How Should the Term, "Self," Be Used?
  • The Coherency of Personality
  • 3 Theoretical Orientation and Aspiration
  • Orienting Attitudes
  • The Emphasis on System Properties
  • The Emphasis on Contemporaneity
  • The Emphasis on "Metapsychological" Constructs
  • The Emphasis on Characterizing Environmental Contexts
  • The Emphasis on Integrating Drives With Attentional Influences
  • The Emphasis on Conceptualizing Personality Psychologically Rather Than Biologically
  • Plan of Presentation of the Present Formulation
  • 4 A First Characterization of the Personality System
  • A Capsule Statement of the Argument
  • Perceptualization as a "Natural" State of the Individual
  • Anxiety as the Sensed Indicator of System Instability
  • Anxiety-Reduction as a Preemptive Basis for Behavior
  • The Two Basic Causes of Anxiety
  • 5 A Beginning Discussion of Drive, Percept, and Anxiety
  • A First Discussion of Drive
  • A First Discussion of Percept
  • Insufficient Reduction of Drive as a Cause of Anxiety Arousal
  • Insufficient Processing of Percepts as a Cause of Anxiety Arousal
  • The Two Basic Modes of Anxiety-Reduction
  • Recapitulation of Where We Are Now
  • 6 Drives, Tension, and Control
  • The Necessity of Structural Variables
  • The Composition of Drive
  • The Concept of Tension
  • The Concept of the Control Apparatus
  • 7 Percept, Environment, and Perceptualizing
  • The Influences of Stimuli
  • The Concept of Autochthonous Assimilability
  • The Concept of Percept Assimilability.
  • Mischel's Approach, Past and Present, to Understanding Personality
  • Some History and Orienting Remarks
  • Mischel's Current View Regarding the Status of Personality Consistency
  • Mischel's Current Theoretical Conceptualization
  • Mischel's Hot-Cool System Proposal
  • Evaluative Remarks
  • 11 Prescript: Developmental Aspects of Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency
  • General Considerations
  • The Conception of Regulation
  • Regarding Genetics and Personality
  • The Basic Dilemma of Ego Development
  • Ego Functioning Structures
  • The Beginning Neonate
  • Gender Differences in Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency
  • Molding Psychological Development
  • Regarding Compliance
  • Regarding Aggression and Prosocial Behavior
  • Regarding Imitation-Modeling
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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