Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes particular insights from earlier models while permitting both within-person and between-person comparisons.
Trade Review
Prepublication praise:
'This book represents a substantial advance. The author develops a complex theoretical edifice that combines in a judicial way the biological, psychological, and situational approaches to personality. I am certain that Fajkowska's new theory will exert much influence in the years ahead.' (Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College)
'A masterpiece. This book includes many new ideas, presents new material, and constitutes the platform for a new approach to personality. Fajkowska has attempted a tour de force and has written a book that will be difficult- if not impossible-for anyone interested in personality to overlook.' (Shulamith Kreitler, Tel Aviv University)
'In this book Malgorzata Fajkowska presents her Complex-System Approach to Personality, a pioneering attempt to integrate personality research that proposes a model in which temperament traits and attentional processes are functionally related. An original and unique contribution to the literature on personality.' (Jan Strelau, University of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Table of Contents
Personality coherence and incoherence: An overview of the book
I. A Complex-System Approach to Personality
Introduction: General view of a system-based approach to personality
Chapter 1. A Complex-System Approach to Personality: Related meta-theoretical issues
Chapter 2. Specifying the personality architecture within the Complex-System Approach to Personality: From related meta-theory to theory
II. Anxiety and depression in the Complex-System Approach to Personality
Introduction: Introducing anxiety and depressed mood: The complex phenomena
Chapter 3. Anxiety and depression within the System of Integration and Regulation Stimulation
Chapter 4. Anxiety and depression within the structure of coherent and incoherent types of personalities
Chapter 5. Coherent/incoherent personality structures and attentional stimulation processing
III. Epilogue
Chapter 6. Looking to the future: A need for integrative models of personality
References
Index
