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Handbook of Personality and Health
Vollrath
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Description for Handbook of Personality and Health
Hardcover. There has been a recent resurgence of interest in personality psychology and its applications. This book is organised in three parts: Personality and Health Outcomes; Mechanisms Relating Personality and Health; Personality Specific Prevention and Intervention. Editor(s): Vollrath, Margarete E. Num Pages: 362 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JM; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 838.
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in personality psychology and its applications. This book is organised in three parts: personality and health outcomes; mechanisms relating personality and health; personality specific prevention and intervention. It covers child and adolescence health behaviour as well as that of adults and integrates new developments within personality psychology (such as neurophysiology and temperamental traits) with health psychology and examines major health outcomes such as disease, the mechanisms between these outcomes and personality, and prevention and intervention programmes.
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in personality psychology and its applications. This book is organised in three parts: personality and health outcomes; mechanisms relating personality and health; personality specific prevention and intervention. It covers child and adolescence health behaviour as well as that of adults and integrates new developments within personality psychology (such as neurophysiology and temperamental traits) with health psychology and examines major health outcomes such as disease, the mechanisms between these outcomes and personality, and prevention and intervention programmes.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470021347
SKU
V9780470021347
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Ref
99-1
About Vollrath
Margarete Vollrath is Professor of Personality Psychology at the University of Oslo. As well as teaching personality psychology, she lectures on health psychology and has published a number of journal articles on personality, stress and health behaviour. She recently co-edited a special edition of the European Journal of Personality.
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