The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes is a primer to the basic and most important concepts, theories, methods, empirical findings, and applications of personality dynamics and processes. This book details how personality psychology has evolved from descriptive research to a more explanatory and dynamic science of personality, thus bridging structure- and process-based approaches, and it also reflects personality psychology's interest in the dynamic organization and interplay of thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions within persons who are always embedded into social, cultural and historic contexts.
The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes tackles each topic with a range of methods geared towards assessing and analyzing their dynamic nature, such as ecological momentary sampling of personality manifestations in real-life; dynamic modeling of time-series or longitudinal personality data; network modeling and simulation; and systems-theoretical models of dynamic processes.
Table of Contents
SECTION I: CONCEPTS AND DOMAINS
1. The history of dynamic approaches to personality
2. Personality processes
3. Psychological processes and mechanisms to explain associations between personality traits and outcomes
4. Within-person variability
5. Personality development processes
6. Neurobiology of personality dynamics
7. Dynamic genotype-environment interplays in the development of personality differences
8. Social Interaction Processes and Personality
9. Relationship transactions
10. Socio-cultural processes
11. Psychopathology and personality functioning
12. Motivational and goal processes
13. Fates Beyond Traits:� The Dynamics and Impacts of Personal Project Pursuit
14. Self-regulatory processes
15. Dynamic self-processes
16. Narratives, identities, and life story processes
17. Personality coherence
SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES AND THEORIES
18. Capturing Interactions, Correlations, Fits, and Transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model
19. Evolutionary perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of personality
20. Dual-process models of personality
21. Whole Trait Theory (WTT)
22. Personality architecture and dynamics (KAPA): Theory and evidence
23. Toward an adequate theory of personality: Lifespan developmental processes
24. Functionalistic perspectives
25. Interpersonal Theory and personality processes
26. Personality Systems Framework
27. PSI Theory
SECTION III: METHODS AND STATISTICS
28. A framework to study persons, situations, behavior, and time
29. Digital media technologies in the assessment of personality dynamics
30. Experience Sampling and Daily Diary Studies: Basic Concepts, Designs, and Challenges
31. Modeling developmental processes
32. Intensive longitudinal measurement
33. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Intensive Longitudinal Data:� A Practical Guide for Personality Researchers
34. Hierarchical continuous time modeling
35. Multi-method multi-occasion modeling
36. Dyadic data-analysis (e.g., longitudinal SRM, APIM)
37. Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling of personality data
38. Identifying the dynamics of individual variation in personality
39. Network analysis of dynamic personality data
40. Neural networks and virtual personalities
SECTION IV: APPLICATIONS
41. Personality processes at the workplace
42. Within-person variability and job performance
43. Process Perspectives on Leader Traits, Behaviors, and Leadership Situations
44. Personnel selection
45. Growth and positive psychology
46. Morality
47. Stress
48. Well-being
49. Health processes in personality
50. Dynamics and processes in personality change interventions
51. PSI Theory Applications
