Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence. As well as introducing all topics of individual differences this book also examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time, as well as more advanced students of the topic, Personality and Individual Differences is the first single volume providing grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.