The Ways of Personality Assessment

• Published in: Contemporary psychology Vol. 18; no. 12; pp. 606 - 608
• Main Author: LEVY, LEON H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.12.1973
• Subjects: Graduate Students; Human; Personality Measures
• ISSN: 0010-7549
• DOI: 10.1037/0011812

[Correction Notice: An error in this article was reported in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1974, Vol 19(4), 336 (see record 2006-06261-063). Leonard Goodstein reports an error in the authorship of the book Personality Assessment. Richard I. Landon is the senior author of this book, not Goodstein.] Reviews the books, Personality Assessment by Leonard D. Goodstein and Richard I. Lanyon (1971) and Readings in Personality Assessment edited by Leonard D. Goodstein and Richard I. Lanyon (1971). The authors have attempted to provide an introduction to the concepts, methods, and issues in the area of personality assessment, written at a level appropriate for a rather broad range of readers, extending from advanced undergraduates to graduate students, and including members of such related professions as medicine and social work, as well as "the informed layman." The first book is the basic text for this venture, and second book is intended as its complement, containing a wide ranging anthology of writings, arranged topically under headings that correspond to those of the chapters in the textbook. The two books can, however, be used independently of each other. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)