Volume 3, Personality Processes and Individuals Differences of The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (EPID) is organized into four volumes that look at the many likenesses and differences between individuals. Each of these four volumes focuses on a major content area in the study of personality psychology and individuals' differences. The first volume, Models and Theories, surveys the significant classic and contemporary viewpoints, perspectives, models, and theoretical approaches to the study of personality and individuals' differences (PID). The second volume on Measurement and Assessment examines key classic and modern methods and techniques of assessment in the study of PID. Volume III, titled Personality Processes and Individuals Differences, covers the important traditional and current dimensions, constructs, and traits in the study of PID. The final volume discusses three major categories: clinical contributions, applied research, and cross-cultural considerations, and touches on topics such as culture and identity, multicultural identities, cross-cultural examinations of trait structures and personality processes, and more. Each volume contains approximately 100 entries on personality and individual differences written by a diverse international panel of leading psychologists Covers significant classic and contemporary personality psychology models and theories, measurement and assessment techniques, personality processes and individuals differences, and research Provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the field of personality psychology The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences is an important resource for all psychology students and professionals engaging in the study and research of personality.

Table of Contents:
Contributor Biographies xi Adaptability 1 Aggression, Personality Correlates 7 Altruism 13 Alexithymia 19 Androgyny, Expression of 25 Anger 31 Anxiety 37 Authoritarianism 43 Personality Correlates of Behavioral Inhibition/Activation 49 Big Five Model of Personality 55 Cognitive and Personality Correlates of Achievement 61 Compassion 67 Compulsive Personality 73 Coping 79 Core Self-Evaluation 83 Creativity 89 Culture and Personality 95 Dark Triad 101 Decisional Styles 107 Defense Mechanisms, Contemporary Perspectives 113 Depression 119 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed.: DSM-5 125 Empathy, Personality Correlates of 131 Emotional Competence 137 Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship, Personality Correlates of 143 Evolutionary Theory and Personality Correlates of Mate Selection 149 Eysenck Giant Three 155 Extraversion, Personality Correlates of 161 Flow 167 Gender Differences in Aggression 173 Gender Differences in Perceived Traits of Men and Women 179 Gender Differences in Self-esteem and Self-confidence 185 Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being 191 General Personality Factor 195 Genetic Basis of Personality 201 Gene–Environment Interaction 207 Genius, Personality Correlates of 211 Guilt 217 Health and Personality 221 Honesty 227 Hopelessness 231 Hostility, Personality Correlates of 237 Impulsivity 243 Intuition 249 Policy Researcher and Educator: Originally it was Independent Researcher and Policy Analyst 255 Judgments of Personality 261 Learned Helplessness 269 Life Satisfaction 275 Locus of Control, Personality Correlates of 281 Loneliness 287 Mindfulness 293 Motivation (Achievement, Affiliation, Power) 299 Neuroticism, Personality Correlates of 305 Obsessive Personality 311 Optimism and Pessimism: Conceptualization, Personality Correlates, and Contextual Considerations 317 Perfectionism 323 Persistence, Personality Correlates 329 Personality Development 335 Phobia 339 Positive Self-capital 345 Psychopathy 351 Religiosity 357 Risk Taking 363 Self-concept, Expressions of the 369 Self-control 375 Self-construal 381 Self-efficacy 387 Self-efficacy, Career 393 Self-esteem, Expressions of 399 Self-regulation 405 Sensation Seeking 411 Shyness 417 16PF, Correlates of 423 Social Desirability 429 Social Intelligence 435 Temperament, Personality Correlates of 439 Test Anxiety 445 Trauma 451 Trustworthiness 457 Twin Studies and Personality 461 Unconscious Processes, Expression of Personality Process 465 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 469 Jeffrey A. Gray 473 Douglas N. Jackson 479 John F. Kihlstrom 483 Salvatore R. Maddi 489 Julie K. Norem 493 Robert J. Plomin 497 Julian B. Rotter 501 Mark Savickas 505 Dean Keith Simonton 511 Marvin Zuckerman 517 Raymond B. Cattell 521 Index 529