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Personality and Individual Differences covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology. Packed with real life examples and controversies in the field, ideal to get students thinking about the applications of personality and individual differences Introduces all topics of individual differences as well as important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs Features easily accessible 'classic' references at the end of each chapter, in addition to further reading suggestions An essential textbook for all first-time students of the topic, providing a grounding in all the major aspects of the field, and a platform from which to elaborate, discuss, and follow up research Supported by a website containing instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/personality for more information

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. Personality and Intellectual Competence is a unique attempt to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference by relating major personality dimensions to cognitive ability measures, academic and job performance, and self-assessed abilities, as well as other traditional constructs such as leadership and creativity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in personality, intelligence, and the prediction of future achievement in general.Personality and Intellectual Competence is an outstanding account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs. With its informative summary of the last century of research in the field, this book provides a robust and systematic theoretical background for understanding the psychological determinants of future achievement. The authors have sought to combine technical expertise with applied interests, making this a groundbreaking theoretical tool for anyone concerned with the scientific prediction of human performance.