Optimal Human Being | Free Book
Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how
can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to
achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best
integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences
to understand "optimal human being" in general? In the process, the
book supplies two new frameworks—one for viewing the human sciences
as a group, and the other for viewing personality theory within that
group.
Optimal Human Being features a multi-level
model that moves from biologically based levels of analysis to
higher, socially based levels, and demonstrates how these different
levels interact to determine behavior. The author then proposes a
new way of looking at personality by examining four "tiers":
organismic foundations, personality traits, goals/intentions, and
self-concepts, and demonstrates how these levels relate to the state
of optimal human being. The book concludes with two higher levels of
analysis relevant to personality—social interaction and culture—and
proposes a new profile of optimal human being.
Intended
for researchers and students in social and personality, clinical,
developmental, and industrial psychology and other social sciences,
the book will also serve as a supplement in a variety of courses
including personality, positive psychology, well being, personal
development, and motivation.
In The Press
"...proposes a novel conceptual framework for personality
psychology and its relation to other human sciences."
—Book News
"The book provides a well-documented argument for an integration of
ideas from the human sciences....exceptionally well referenced, and
includes both an author and a subject index, making it especially
useful as a supplemental textbook."
—Journal of Occupational Science
"...this book provides a valuable organizational framework for
conceptualizing positive psychology as it relates to personality
research."
—Journal of Personality Assessment
"Ken Sheldon takes on what is arguably the most important question
in all of the social sciences: What is optimal human living? The
answers he provides are convincing, and they are grounded in solid
empirical research. Sheldon offers a compelling psychological model
for understanding the different levels of personality and situating
the person within a complex biological and cultural context...a
conceptual tour de force that should be read by academics,
researchers, clinicians, and others who look to psychological
science to make sense of human nature."
—Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
"Ken Sheldon proposes a model to integrate the human sciences with
the biological and physical sciences....this convincing scholarly
effort derives a value-free view of optimal functioning from the
theoretical model."
—Ed Diener, Ph.D.
Alumni Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois,
Champaign
" The author...presents the nuances and intricacies of many
theories better than the originators of the theories
themselves....The book should be required reading for professors and
students interested in personality and/or optimal human
functioning..."
—Richard Koestner, Ph.D.
McGill University
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