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Direct linkFeldman, Daniel C.; Beehr, Terry A. – American Psychologist, 2011
The present article organizes prominent theories about retirement decision making around three different types of thinking about retirement: imagining the possibility of retirement, assessing when it is time to let go of long-held jobs, and putting concrete plans for retirement into action at present. It also highlights important directions for…
Descriptors: Retirement, Models, Decision Making, Personality Traits
Wood, Alex; Joseph, Stephen – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the original article "A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality," by Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals (see record 2006-03947-002). McAdams and Pals (April 2006) presented a new model to integrate the field of personality psychology. Cultural and evolutionary factors interact with an…
Descriptors: Psychology, Personality, Personality Theories, Models
McAdams, Dan P. – American Psychologist, 2007
Responds to the comments by A. Wood and S. Joseph (see record 2006-23492-015); S. R. Maddi (see record 2006-23492-016); and S. Epstein (see record 2006-23492-017) on the current author's original article (see record 2006-03947-002) "A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality" (McAdams & Pals, April 2006).…
Descriptors: Personality, Developmental Psychology, Personality Theories
Epstein, Seymour – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the original article "A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality," by Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals (see record 2006-03947-002). Here, the current author begins with a critique of McAdams and Pals's (April 2006) five principles for a framework for an integrative theory of personality. The…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Personality, Personality Theories, Environment
Maddi, Salvatore R. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the original article "A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality," by Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals (see record 2006-03947-002). In presenting their view of personality science, McAdams and Pals (April 2006) elaborated the importance of five principles for building an integrated science of…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Theories, Personality Traits, Hypothesis Testing
Maddi, Salvatore R. – American Psychologist, 2006
Comments on "A tale of two visions: Can a new view of personality help integrate psychology?" by J. D. Mayer (see record 2005-05480-001). Mayer's attempt to find ways to use personality emphases as integrative tendencies in psychology is welcome. Certainly, it would help if the research and practice efforts of psychologists were coordinated…
Descriptors: Personality Theories, Psychology, Personality, Psychologists
Zaccaro, Stephen J. – American Psychologist, 2007
The trait-based perspective of leadership has a long but checkered history. Trait approaches dominated the initial decades of scientific leadership research. Later, they were disdained for their inability to offer clear distinctions between leaders and nonleaders and for their failure to account for situational variance in leadership behavior.…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Effectiveness, Personality Assessment, Personality Studies
Mayer, John D. – American Psychologist, 2006
Replies to comments by Maddi (see record 2006-05893-007) on "A Tale of Two Visions: Can a New View of Personality Help Integrate Psychology?" (see record 2005-05480-001). In the original article, the current author proposed a new fieldwide framework for the discipline of personality psychology; in essence, it is a new outline to organize…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Theories, Psychology, Behavioral Science Research
Peer reviewedMischel, Walter – American Psychologist, 1977
The issues which this article examines include the multiple determinism of behavior, the role of context, the multiple goals of personality measurement, the "subject" as potential expert and colleague, the analysis of environments, and the role of person variables. (Author)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Environmental Standards, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedHogan, Robert; And Others – American Psychologist, 1977
Suggests that personality assessment is an organic and logical extension of personality theory, and its role is nonoverlapping but complementary to that of experimental social psychology in the study of human social behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Personality Studies
Peer reviewedHolland, John L. – American Psychologist, 1996
Outlines J. L. Holland's (1985) typology of persons and environments, and summarizes the support for this theory in explaining stability and change in careers and work satisfaction. Recent research that strengthens the explanatory power of Holland's typology and links it to the Big Five personality factors is described. Speculations about using…
Descriptors: Career Change, Classification, Employment Patterns, Job Satisfaction
Peer reviewedEpstein, Seymour – American Psychologist, 1973
Presents a theory which attempts to incorporate phenomenological views on the self-concept within an objective framework: the self-concept is identified as a self-theory. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedLefcourt, Herbert M. – American Psychologist, 1973
Argues that while freedom and control are both illusions, inventions of man to make sense of his experience, they do have consequences; and presents research evidence that the loss of the illusion of freedom may have untoward consequences for the way men live. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Beliefs, Individual Power
Peer reviewedBlock, Jeanne Humphrey – American Psychologist, 1973
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development
Peer reviewedCantor, Nancy – American Psychologist, 1990
Discusses a cognitive perspective on personality, focusing on how dispositions are cognitively expressed and maintained in social interaction. Shows how individuals interpret life tasks in light of their most accessible schemas, envisaging alternative future selves, and devising cognitive strategies to guide behavior. Discusses adaptiveness of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Daily Living Skills
