Handbook Of Personality And Self-Regulation

The 21 chapters of this excellent handbook offer current thinking and methods regarding those aspects of personality that are linked to traits and behaviors of self-regulation, with attention to ongoing research. Temperament and early personality are the subject of the first 4 chapters, which discuss developmental issues and their appearance in educational settings, the last 50 years of research on delayed gratification, the relation of self regulation to maladjustment, social competence, and emotion. The following 6 chapters look at different approaches to the study of personality processes. The remaining 10 chapters, on individual differences, expand on the contributors' researches, with topics that include self-efficacy, a cybernetic process model of self-control, working memory capacity and self-regulation, and hypo-egoic self-regulation. Hoyle and several of the contributors are in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke U. in Durham, North Carolina; the remaining contributors are psychologists based in the US and Europe. Part of the chapters appeared in shorter versions in a special issue, edited by Hoyle, of the Journal of Personality (v.74, issue 6, 2006). Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rick H. Hoyle, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 5, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, and 9, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) and a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Hoyle has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, and Self and Identity and Editor of Journal of Social Issues. Among his book projects are, Selfhood: Identity, Esteem, Regulation (co-authored with Michael Kernis, Mark Leary, and Mark Baldwin) and the Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior (co-edited with Mark Leary).