Personality assessment via questionnaires : current issues in theory and measurement

I. The Trait Concept and Personality Questionnaires.- The Trait Concept: Current Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Facts, and Implications for Personality Inventory Construction.- The Trait Concept and the Personality Questionnaire.- II. Item Generation and Scale Construction.- Pragmatic Validity to Be Considered for the Construction and Application of Psychological Questionnaires.- It's What You Ask and How You Ask It: An Itemmetric Analysis of Personality Questionnaires.- Methods of Personality Inventory Development - A Comparative Analysis.- III. Models of Item Responding and Self-Presentation.- The Process of Responding in Personality Assessment.- Self-Deception and Impression Management in Test Responses.- Psychometric Models for Analysis of Data from Personality Questionnaires.- On Linguistic Variables Influencing the Understanding of Questionnaire Items.- IV. Problems of Convergent and Discriminant Validation.- Evaluation of Convergent and Discriminant Validity by Use of Structural Equations.- An Example of Convergent and Discriminant Validation of Personality Questionnaires.- Epilog.- References.- Author Index.