The Construction of Personality

Acknowledgements 1. The concept of personality Part One Explicit Personality: The Personality Theorist's Perspective 2. Single-trait theories 3. Multi-trait theories 4. Personality and consistency Part Two Implicit Personality: The Lay Perspective 5. The lay perspective 6. Implicit versus explicity personality thoeries Part Three The Self Perspective and Personality Construction 7. The self persepctive 8. The construction of personality Part Four Application of the Constructivist Approach 9. Personality over the life-span 10. Criminal personality Bibliography