Handbook of Child Psychology, Social, Emotional, and Personality Development

by Damon, William; Lerner, Richard M.; Eisenberg, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780471272908
• ISBN10: 0471272906
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-31
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, edited by Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, covers mechanisms of socialization and personality development, including parent/child relationships, peer relationships, emotional development, gender role acquisition, pro-social and anti-social development, motivation, achievement, social cognition, and moral reasoning, plus a new chapter on adolescent development.

Author Biography

Volume Editor,  Nancy Eisenberg,   Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

Editors-in-Chief
Dr. Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University.  He has written several books, many book chapters, and numerous articles on child development and adolescence and is editor-in-chief of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (Jossey-Bass).

Dr. Lerner is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University.  He is the author of many publications, including the Handbook of Psychology, Volume 6, Developmental Psychology, and Pathways to Positive Development about Diverse Youth, New Directions for Youth Development:  Theory, Practice, and Research (Jossey-Bass).  Dr Lerner is also a past editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(23)
Nancy Eisenberg
The Development Of The Person: Social Understanding, Relationships, Conscience, Self	24	(75)
Ross A. Thompson
Temperament	99	(68)
Mary K. Rothbart
John E. Bates
Biology, Culture, And Temperamental Biases	167	(59)
Jerome Kagan
Nathan A. Fox
Emotional Development: Action, Communication, And Understanding	226	(74)
Carolyn Saarni
Joseph J. Campos
Linda A. Camras
David Witherington
Personality Development	300	(66)
Avshalom Caspi
Rebecca L. Shiner
Socialization Processes	366	(63)
Daphne Blunt Bugental
Joan E. Grusec
Socialization In The Family: Ethnic And Ecological Perspectives	429	(76)
Ross D. Parke
Raymond Buriel
The Self	505	(66)
Susan Harter
Peer Interactions, Relationships, And Groups	571	(75)
Kenneth H. Rubin
William M. Bukowski
Jeffrey G. Parker
Prosocial Development	646	(73)
Nancy Eisenberg
Richard A. Fabes
Tracy L. Spinrad
Aggression And Antisocial Behavior In Youth	719	(70)
Kenneth A. Dodge
John D. Coie
Donald Lynam
The Development Of Morality	789	(69)
Elliot Turiel
Gender Development	858	(75)
Diane N. Ruble
Carol Lynn Martin
Sheri A. Berenbaum
Development Of Achievement Motivation	933	(70)
Allan Wigfield
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Ulrich Schiefele
Robert W. Roeser
Pamela Davis-Kean
Adolescent Development In Interpersonal Context	1003	(66)
W. Andrew Collins
Laurence Steinberg
Author Index	1069	(44)
Subject Index	1113