num_pages: 608
description: Accurate and authoritative, Theories of Personality by Jess and Gregory Feist presents 23 leading theories of personality in a thorough, interesting and logical manner. The book begins with an introductory chapter designed to acquaint students with the meaning of personality and provide them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory and its crucial contributions to science. The next seventeen chapters present twenty-three major theories with a fresh approach and a more complete view encompassing, a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research and applications to real life. When appropriate, the authors point out ways in which the theorists' life experiences may have helped shape her or his theory.
language: English
title: Theories of Personality
titlecomplete: Theories of Personality
genres: Philosophy, School, Counselling, Textbooks, Reference, College, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 626
publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages