<b>A definitive, authoritative and up-to-date resource for anyone interested in the theories, models and assessment methods used for understanding the many factes of Human personality and individual differences</p> <p></b></p> <p>This brand new <b>Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment 2-Volume Set</b> constitutes an essential resource for shaping the future of the scientific foundation of personality research, measurement, and practice. There is need for an up-to-date and international Handbook that reviews the major contemporary personality models Vol. 1 and associated psychometric measurement instruments Vol. 2 that underpin the scientific study of this important area of individual differences psychology, and in these two Handbooks this is very much achieved. </p> <p></p> <p>Made unique by its depth and breadth the Handbooks are internationally edited and authored by <i>Professors Gregory J. Boyle, Gerald Matthews</i>, and <i>Donald H. Saklofske</i> and authored by internationally known academics, this work will be an important reference work for a host of researchers and practitioners in the fields of individual differences and personality assessment, clinical psychology, educational psychology, work and organizational psychology, health psychology and other applied fields as well.</p> <p></p> <p><b>Volume 2: Personality Measurement and Assessment.</p> <p></b>Covers psychometric measurement of personality and has coverage of the following broad topics, listed by section heading:</p> <p>" General Methodological Issues</p> <p>" Multidimensional Personality Instruments</p> <p>" Assessment of Biologically-Based Traits</p> <p>" Assessment of Self-Regulative Traits</p> <p>" Implicit, Projective And Objective Measures Of Personality</p> <p>" Abnormal Personality Trait Instruments</p> <p>" Applications of Psychological Testing