Jack Block

The Challenge of Response Sets

Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Psychopathology

This important volume presents a definitive review of the origins and implications of developmental psychopathology and what has been learned about the phenomenon of psychosocia...

A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description.

The 5-factor approach (FFA) to personality description has been represented as a comprehensive and compelling rubric for assessment. In this article, various misgivings about th...

The Q-sort method in personality assessment and psychiatric research.

Just about a dozen years ago William Stephenson, then teaching in the University of Chicago, introduced American psychology to his Q-technique. As doctorate researches and publi...

The Eysencks and psychoticism.

Lives Through Time, 1932-1958

This study focused on the course of adolescent personality development and change, and its relationship to adjustment in later life. The data come from two ongoing longitudinal ...

IQ and ego-resiliency: Conceptual and empirical connections and separateness.

IQ and ego-resiliency: Conceptual and empirical connections and separateness.

The constructs of intelligence and ego-resiliency are discussed. The personality implications of "pure intelligence" and "pure ego-resilience" were identified. Intelligence (IQ)...