Behavior-Based Assessment in Psychology: Going Beyond Self-report in the Personality, Affective, Motivation, and Social Domains - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889374376 ISBN 13 : 9780889374379

Editeur : Hogrefe Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Traditional self-report tests can be an unreliable source of information about personality,attitudes, affect, and motivation. What are the alternatives? This firstvolume in the authoritative series Psychological Assessment - Science and Practicediscusses the most influential, state-of-the-art forms of assessment that can takeus beyond self-report. Leading scholars from various countries describe the theoreticalbackground and psychometric properties of alternatives to self-report,including behavior-based assessment, observational methods, innovative computerizedprocedures, indirect assessments, projective techniques, and narrativereports. They also look at the validity and practical application of such forms ofassessment in domains as diverse as health, forensic, clinical, and consumerpsychology.Each volume in the series Psychological Assessment - Science and Practice presents the state-ofthe-art of assessment in a particular domain of psychology, with regard to theory, research, andpractical applications. Editors and contributors are leading authorities in their respective fields.Each volume discusses, in a reader-friendly manner, critical issues and developments in assessment,as well as well-known and novel assessment tools. The series is an ideal educational resource forresearchers, teachers, and students of assessment, as well as practitioners.Psychological Assessment - Science and Practice is edited with the support of the European Associationof Psychological Assessment (EAPA).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tuulia M. Ortner, PhD, has been head of the Department ofPsychological Assessment at the University of Salzburg (Austria)since 2012. She started working on objective personality testsmore than 15 years ago at the University of Vienna (Austria), andcontinued her research at the Free University of Berlin(Germany). She is a member of the Executive Committee of theEuropean Association of Psychological Assessment. Her currentresearch includes examining the validity of behavior-based testsand their convergence with other measures.Fons J.R. van de Vijver, PhD, is Professor of Cross-culturalPsychology at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and holdshonorary positions at North-West University (South Africa) andthe University of Queensland (Australia). He has publishedwidely on assessment issues, notably in the area of cross-culturalpsychology, and also serves on the Executive Committeeof the European Association of Psychological Assessment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hogrefe Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889374376
• ISBN 13: 9780889374379
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Ortner Tuulia M., Vijver Fons J. R. Van De
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible