Paradigms of Personality Assessment

Jerry S. Wiggins

Guilford Press, Aug 6, 2003 - Psychology - 386 pages

From distinguished scholar and teacher Jerry S. Wiggins, this authoritative text offers a uniquely integrative introduction to adult personality assessment. Part 1 identifies five major assessment paradigms -- psychodynamic, interpersonal, personological, multivariate, and empirical. Examined are the history of each paradigm, key figures in its development, and the current status of favored instruments and approaches. In Part 2, leading representatives of each paradigm are invited to interpret extensive test and interview data collected from a single subject. The resulting "collaborative case study" facilitates comparison of techniques, theories, and interpretations; illuminates the unique contributions of each paradigm; and suggests areas of common ground and potential integration. Special features include numerous clearly presented timelines and charts.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Paradigms of Assessment in Clinical Practice: 9
• What This Book Is Not About: 16
• The Psychodynamic Paradigm: 25
• The Interpersonal Paradigm: 63
• The Personological Paradigm: 93
• The Multivariate Paradigm: 123
• The Emergence of the Big Five Factors: 135
• Comparative Validity of Multivariate Inventories: 146
• Additional Issues in the Application of the: 156
• Overview: 162
• The Individual and Society: 193
• A Collaborative Case Study: 209
• Psychodynamic Assessment: 226
• Interpersonal Assessment: 246
• Standard IAS and IIPC Profiles: 253
• NEO PIR Profiles of Madeline: 262
• The MMPI2 Profile of Madeline: 281
• Coda: 325
• Appendix A Thematic Apperception Test TAT Protocol: 331
• Appendix B 2 Rorschach Scoring: 339
• Index: 379

About the author

Jerry S. Wiggins, PhD, has been contributing to the scientific literature in personality assessment for over 45 years. He has held faculty positions at Rochester University (1956/n-/1957), Stanford University (1957/n-/1962), the University of Illinois (1962/n-/1973), and the University of British Columbia (1973/n-/1996), where he is Emeritus Professor. He also served as an adjunct professor at York University. Widely published, Dr. Wiggins is well known for his construction of the original content scales for the MMPI and for his contributions to the development and validation of interpersonal circumplex models of personality. He is the author of the Interpersonal Adjective Scales (including the revised, Big Five version) and coauthor of the Inventory for Interpersonal Problems/m-/Circumplex. He has also served as an editorial board member and/or ad hoc reviewer for numerous psychology journals. In 2002, Dr. Wiggins was honored by the Society for Personality Assessment with the Bruno Klopfer Award for his outstanding, long-term contributions to the field of personality assessment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Paradigms of Personality Assessment
• Author: Jerry S. Wiggins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Guilford Press, 2003
• ISBN: 157230913X, 9781572309135
• Length: 386 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Psychiatry / General; Psychology / Assessment, Testing & Measurement; Psychology / Personality