Paradigms of Personality Assessment

An introduction to adult personality assessment that will engage graduate and undergraduate students alike. This book reviews five assessment paradigms, and invites leading representatives of each paradigm, to interpret test and interview data, collected from a single subject. Divided into two parts, it suggests areas of potential integration. From distinguished scholar and teacher Jerry S. Wiggins, this book is a uniquely integrative introduction to adult personality assessment that will engage graduate and undergraduate students alike. Part I thoroughly reviews five major assessment paradigms--psychodynamic, interpersonal, personological, multivariate, and empirical. In Part II, 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.