McClellend, D. C., 152
Mean (average) level of trait, 98–99Measurement. SeeProjective assessments;
Self-report measures; Trait measures
Mental health and personality change, 131–
133
Mentor, 171Meta-analysis, results of, 113–115Metatraits, 148–149Methodological issues in assessment of
stability
accounting for variance and correcting
for unreliability , 122–124
response set, 116–119self-concept, 119–122
Midlife crisis
investigations of, 125–126Levinson and, 17Neuroticism and, 219–220search for evidence of, 178–182
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI), 44, 55, 111
Mischel, W ., 26, 153–154Modal personality structure, 85–86Moral development, 141, 142–143Motives in psychodynamic psychology ,
143–144
Multiculturalism, 84–85Murray , Henry
conflict resolution and, 145as ego psychologist, 140on ego strength, 147Explorations in Personality, 30
serials and, 146Thematic Apperception Test and, 158–159theory of, 141
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, 30, 55, 56,
226
N
National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey I Follow-Up Study (NHANES)
cross-sectional analysis of, 63–64, 73, 78,
79
midlife crisis and, 180, 181
Natural language and Five-Factor Model,
34–36
Needs in psychodynamic psychology , 143–
144
NEO Personality Inventory
analyses of other inventories against, 55–
56
California Q-Set and, 52, 53college students and, 11domains, 46–47facets, 47–51Five-Factor Model and, 36
longitudinal study of, 76–78, 111–112,
113
overview of, 45–47Personality Research Form and, 53–55
Neugarten, B. L., 14, 60Neuroticism
depression and, 132–133divorce and, 225facets of, 47–48overview of, 46psychological adjustment across lifespan
and, 218–220
self-concept and, 229
NHANES. SeeNational Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey IFollow-Up Study (NHANES)
Nonshared environment, 194–195Norman, Warren, 35
O
Objective Biography (FFT)
career, 225–227description of, 187, 188, 192, 208–209marriage and divorce, 224–225personal projects, social clocks, and
psychobiography , 220–223
postulates of, 189–191
Observer ratings, 40–43, 120–122Openness
age and structure of, 104attitudes, values, and, 210–211career change and, 226–227cross-cultural results on, 91facets of, 49–50marital choice and, 224as moderator of change, 128–130overview of, 34–35, 46self-concept and, 229–230sentence completion test and, 155–156
Operant tests, 152Origin postulate (FFT), 193, 196, 202
P
Parallel form testing, 71Parenthood and personality change, 131“Partisan zealotry ,” 2Passages (Sheehy), 2, 5, 170
Perceptions of change, 124–128Personal agency , 129Personality , meaning of term, 186Personality Research Form (PRF), 30–31,
53–55, 61
Personality system. SeeFive-Factor Theory
(FFT)Index 265