Personality Development: Theoretical, Empirical, and by P. Michiel Westenberg,Augusto Blasi,Lawrence D. Cohn

By P. Michiel Westenberg,Augusto Blasi,Lawrence D. Cohn

Jane Loevinger's leading edge learn method, psychometric rigor, and theoretical scope have attracted the eye of various students and researchers. Empirical investigations making use of Loevinger's Washington college Sentence of completion try of ego improvement (WUSCT) have seemed with expanding frequency and overall greater than three hundred experiences. Following the booklet of the 1st entire revision of the scoring guide for the WUSCT, this quantity displays at the strengths and obstacles of Loevinger's developmental version.

it's divided into sections that correspond with 4 large questions that may be raised approximately Loevinger's developmental version:
* what's its scope and highbrow tradition?
* What facts is there for build validity?
* what's its courting to different social-developmental versions?
* what's its scientific relevance to Loevinger's version of ego improvement?

This four-part grouping presents a framework for successfully organizing the current fabric, and regularly, the questions raised in a single part are addressed in different sections besides. within the concluding bankruptcy, Loevinger addresses the various rules which are proposed through a number of the authors. She additionally offers the starting place of the ego improvement notion by way of recounting its history.

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