1. An Introduction to the Study of Mood and Temperament
2. Measuring Mood: A Structural Model
3. Situational and Environmental Influences on Mood
4. The Rhythms of Everyday Experience: Patterned Cyclicity in
Mood
5. The Dispositional Basis of Affect
6. Temperament and Personality
7. Understanding Individual Differences in Affect and
Well-Being
8. Affect and Psychopathology
9. Affect, Personality, and Health
References
Index
David Watson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and head of the Personality and Social Psychology Training Program at the University of Iowa. He received his doctorate in Personality Research and Assessment from the University of Minnesota in 1982, followed by two years of postdoctoral training in the Psychiatry Department of the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Watson has broad interests in personality, health, and clinical psychology and has published widely in the top journals in these fields. He has also served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and since 1994 has been the Associate Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Provides a comprehensive review and synthesis of the scientific
literature on subjective mood, its structure and measurement and
its association with such important qualities as temperament,
personality, psychopathology, and health. Graduate students and
professionals in diverse mental health fields will find this a
highly readable and informative overview of an increasingly
significant area in the biobehavioral sciences. --Richard J.
Davidson, PhD, William James and Vilas Research Professor of
Psychology and Psychiatry and Director, Wisconsin Center for
Affective Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
For most of his career, David Watson has been the world's leading
authority on positive and negative moods. His contributions have
influenced many of the fundamental questions in social,
personality, and clinical psychology. Mood and Temperament
integrates Watson's impressive research with exciting new theories
and approaches in psychology. This should be one of the most highly
cited books in psychology for years to come. --James W. Pennebaker,
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
Watson's numerous studies on mood, daily emotion, and temperament
are like pieces of a mosaic. In this book, he steps back from his
active research program to present the whole mosaic, such that the
'big picture' clearly emerges. The book summarizes the major
advances that have occurred in our understanding of daily mood in
the last 20 years. It is the most thorough coverage I have seen of
the dispositional nature of mood, and should appeal to personality
and social psychologists, clinical psychologists, and anyone else
with an interest in the stream of affect we call day-to-day life.
--Randy J. Larsen, PhD, Department of Psychology, Washington
University
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