Table of Contents

1: By What Methods Can Personality Be Studied? 2: The Formation of Personality by Environment and Heredity; 3: Personality Structure: The Larger Dimensions; 4: Further Traits, and Their Integration; 5: The Techniques of Objective Personality Measurement; 6: Finer Issues in Personality Measurement:States, Instruments, Roles; 7: The Main Features of Our Dynamic Structure; 8: The Clinical Measurement of Conflict and Maladjustment; 9: Analysis of the Concept of Integration of Personality; 10: The Development of Personality; 11: Personality Testing and the School Child; 12: Personality Measurement and the Solution of Some Social Problems

About the Author

Raymond B. Cattell (1905-1998) was research professor in psychology and director of the Laboratory of Personality Assessment at the University of Illinois. Cattell made many contributions to symposia and wrote over 200 articles for scientific journals and fifteen books concerned with research into personality and motivation, and their hereditary and cultural determiners. The founder of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, he had been the organizer of an active team dedicated to a quantitative, experimental and mathematical basis for human motivation and personality study.