Chapter Outline

DEFINING AND STUDYING PERSONALITY

• What Is Personality?
• Measuring Personality
• Origins of Personality: Inheritance and Experience

MODELS OF ADULT PERSONALITY: STABILITY OR CHANGE

• Trait Models
• Self-Concept Models
• Stage Models
• The Timing-of-Events Model

GENDER AND PERSONALITY

• Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity
• Women's Personality Development: The Mills Studies

SYNTHESIZING APPROACHES TO ADULT PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT