Dan P. McAdams & Rebecca L. Shiner 
Handbook of Personality Development [EPUB ebook] 

I. Personality Development and Human Nature

1. The Emergence of Personality, Dan P. Mc Adams

2. The Evolutionary Context of Personality Development, Marco Del Giudice

3. Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob & Daniel A. Briley

4. The Development of a Person: A Relational–Developmental Systems Perspective, Richard M. Lerner & Jacqueline V. Lerner

II. Social Actors: From Temperament to Personality Traits

5. Personality Neuroscience: A Developmental Perspective, Colin G. De Young & Timothy A. Allen

6. Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: A Developmental Model of Links between Temperament and Personality, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Alicia Vallorani, & Berenice Anaya

7. Extraversion: Description, Development, and Mechanisms, Luke D. Smillie, Margaret L. Kern, & Mirko Uljarevic

8. Negative Emotionality and Neuroticism from Childhood through Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective, Rebecca L. Shiner

9. Lifespan Development of Conscientiousness, Joshua J. Jackson & Patrick Hill

10. Agreeableness, Jennifer L. Tackett, Maciel Hernández, & Nancy Eisenberg

11. The Structure, Measurement, and Development of Openness to Experience across Adulthood, Ted Schwaba

12. Temperament and Personality Trait Development in the Family: Interactions and Transactions with Parenting from Infancy through Adolescence, Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein, & Peter Prinzie

13. Culture, Context, and the Development of Traits, Helena R. Slobodskaya

14. Stability and Change in Personality Traits over the Lifespan, Wiebke Bleidorn & Christopher J. Hopwood

III. Motivated Agents: The Development of Goals and Values

15. Attachment and Social Development within a Life-History Perspective, Jeffry A. Simpson & Rachel E. Jones

16. Needs, Motives, and Personality Development: Unanswered Questions and Exciting Potentials, Kennon M. Sheldon & Julia Schüler

17. Achievement Strivings: Motives and Goals that Promote Competence, Amanda M. Durik & K. Ann Renninger

18. Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective, Alexandra M. Freund, Christopher M. Napolitano, & Joshua L. Rutt

19. Development of Self-Esteem across the Lifespan, Ulrich Orth & Richard W. Robins

20. Moral Development and Moral Values: Evolutionary and Neurobiological Influences, Darcia Narvaez

21. Religion, Spirituality, and the Agential Self, Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, & Dan Farina

22. Culture and the Development of Motives, Values, and Social Selves, Gary S. Gregg

IV. Autobiographical Authors: Life Stories and the Search for Meaning

23. Developmental Foundations of the Narrative Author in Early Mother–Child Reminiscing, Robyn Fivush, Elaine Reese, & Jordan A. Booker

24. Narrative Identity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Pathways of Development, Kate C. Mc Lean & Jennifer P. Lilgendahl

25. Narrative Identity Development across the Lifespan and Psychological Well-Being, Jonathan M. Adler

26. Narrative, Identity, and Identity Statuses: Reflections on the Kaleidoscopic Self, Ruthellen Josselson

27. The Dialogic Development of Personality: Narrative, Culture, and the Study of Lives, Phillip L. Hammack & Erin E. Toolis

V. Applications and Integrations

28. Personality Development and Health, Sarah E. Hampson

29. The Development of Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan, Nathan Hudson, Richard E. Lucas, & M. Brent Donnellan

30. Personality Development and Internalizing Psychopathology, C. Emily Durbin

31. Personality Development and Externalizing Psychopathology, Michelle M. Martel, Tess E. Smith, & Christine A. Lee

32. The Development of Personality Disorders, Andrew M. Chanen & Katherine M. Thompson

33. Personality Development and Relationships in Adulthood, Jennifer M. Senia & M. Brent Donnellan

Dan P. Mc Adams, Ph D, is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Past president of the Association for Research in Personality, he is a recipient of the Henry A. Murray Award for the study of lives and the Jack Block Award for career contributions from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Division 8 of the American Psychological Association (APA); the Theodore Sarbin Award from APA Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology); and the William James Book Award from APA Division 1 (General Psychology). Dr. Mc Adams’s research focuses on concepts of self and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy, redemption, and generativity across the adult life course. He has published nearly 300 scientific articles and chapters and numerous books, including, most recently,
Handbook of Personality Development and
The Art and Science of Personality Development.
 
Rebecca L. Shiner, Ph D, is Professor of Psychology at Colgate University. Her research centers on temperament and personality trait development in children, adolescents, and young adults, including structure, stability and change, and links to positive life outcomes and the emergence of psychopathology. She was a consultant to the DSM-5 Personality Disorders Work Group, served as Executive Officer of the Association for Research in Personality, and is a past associate editor of the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the
Journal of Personality. Dr. Shiner has held many leadership roles at Colgate University, including Psychology Department Chair and Director of the Residential Commons.
 
Jennifer L. Tackett, Ph D, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on child and adolescent personality and externalizing and disinhibitory psychopathology in youth. Much of her work emphasizes assessment, measurement, and construct validation approaches. Dr. Tackett is the recipient of early career awards from the Society for Personality Assessment, the Society for Research in Psychopathology, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. She is currently a senior editor of the journal
Collabra: Psychology and an associate editor of the
Journal of Abnormal Psychology and
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.