"The dynamics of human personality and adjustment are explored in terms of scientific principles. Topics treated include personality development, principles of effective adjustment and mental adjustment, individual and social human relationships and variable of adjustment."

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Cognitive Theories of Personality                                                        Humanistic Theories of Personality

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                 Trait Theory                                                                                        Psychoanalytic Theory

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Personality, Stress, and Coping                                                              Implicit and Explicit Motivation

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College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology- abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.