Mark Twain's Exhibitionism

Weissbourd, Richard; Sears, Robert R.

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“…Ideally, in future studies, we would want to choose an author who wrote many novels over a long period. The work of Sears and his colleagues (Sears, 1976; Sears & Lapidus, 1973; Sears et al, 1978; Weissbourd & Sears, 1982) continues to serve as a model of what can be done with such a research design. Thus far, personality researchers have inadequately capitalized on the wealth of archival materials available in the fictional writings and personal documents of historical figures, both for generating research ideas and for testing psychological theories.…”

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“…A precedent has also been set for the use of formal content analysis of a writer's fiction as a source of data about his or her personality. Sears and his colleagues (Sears, 1976; Sears & Lapidus, 1973; Sears, Lapidus, & Cozzens, 1978; Weissbourd & Sears, 1982) applied such techniques in their studies of Mark Twain's letters and novels. Sears et al (1978) wrote that although even the most transient arousals can influence the themes of brief spontaneous fantasies, … a novel's structured and goal-directed type of fantasy is less susceptible to minor perturbations; primarily its content represents powerful arousals of strong dispositions.…”

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Using personal and fictional documents to assess psychosocial development: A case study of Vera Brittain's generativity.

Peterson¹,

Stewart²

1990

Psychology and Aging

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Adult diaries and novels written by the British feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain (1893-1970) were content analyzed for Eriksonian themes of identity, intimacy, and generativity. Brittain's concerns with identity and intimacy decreased over time, while her generative concerns increased, suggesting that she expressed the issue of generativity vs. stagnation in her mid-life diaries and fiction. The large number of identity themes relative to both intimacy and generativity provokes speculations about Brittain's personality, the characteristics of writers, the influence of gender, the impact of society, and the possibility that the crisis of identity vs. role confusion involves the last major structural change in personality development. This archival case study is consistent with Erikson's notion of a sequence of concerns with psychosocial issues, although directions for theoretical revision and elaboration are discussed.

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Using personal and fictional documents to assess psychosocial development: A case study of Vera Brittain's generativity.

Peterson¹,

Stewart²

1990

Psychology and Aging

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“…Researchers have argued that studying the individual case with techniques such as systematic content analysis can be a fruitful approach to examining complex personality processes (McAdams, 1985;Murray, 1938;Sears, Lapidus, & Cozzens, 1978;Weissbourd & Sears, 1982;White, 1966). Case materials such as personal documents can supply information that is both self-reflective and longitudinal, thus providing a unique base for in-depth analyses of ongoing processes such as identity formation.…”

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A Quantitative Case Study of Longitudinal Changes in Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity

Franz

1995

Journal of Personality

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A quantitative case study of one woman's development was conducted in order to explore psychosocial change in early adulthood. A content-analytic coding system for identity, intimacy, and generativity themes derived from E. H. Erikson's writing was applied to letters and diaries of the British writer Vera Brittain written when she was 20 to 21 and 30 to 31 years old. Over time, Brittain used more intimacy and generativity themes and fewer identity themes. Even though Brittain used fewer total identity themes in her writing in her early 30s, her use of one identity subcategory-occupational role-increased in frequency, and the way in which she expressed her identity concerns indicated greater certainty about her identity.

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Personality research methods: An historical perspective

Craik

1986

Journal of Personality

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An histoncal perspective upon personality research methods is presented and scholarly resources are reviewed to encourage histoncal perspective-taking among perscmality psychologistsThe histoncal perspecbve demarcates five penods m the development of personality research methods (1) the pre-identity era, (2) the pre-World War II era, (3) the post-World War II era, (4) the contemporary era, and (5) within the contemporary era, the current situation FOT a set of basic research methods in personality, three types of development are identified Laboratory methods, observer judgments, personality scales and lnventones, and projective techniques illustrate continued development, biographical/archival methods and field studies illustrate interrupted methods, and reputabonal analysis by use of naturalistic observational assessment illustrates arrested develc^ment Tlie methodological plurahsm evident in the history of personality research and inherent in its scientific agenda has not been fully realized, although current trends are encouraging Recommendations for promoting lntegrative methodological plurahsm are made regarding research planning, mstitutional arrangements, and graduate research training programs Many thanks to these coUeagues for helpful comments on ewher drafb S I Blatt, Journal ofPersonality 54 1, March 1^6 Ct^ynght © 1986 by Dula University Press CCC 0022-3506/86/$! 50 Craik Cattell, R B (1947) Confirmation and clarification of pnmary personality factors Psychotnetrtha, 12, 197-220 Cattell, R B (1968) Trait-view theory of perturbations in ratings and self-ratings (L(BR)-and Q-data) Its application to obtaining pure trait score estimates in questionnaires Psychological Bevtew, 75, ^-\Vi Cattell, R B (1979) Personaltty and leamttig theory Volutne 1, The structure cf personaltty in Its envtronment New York Spnnger Publishing Co Cattell, R B , fie Digman, J M (1964) Atheory of the structure of perturbations in observer ratings and questionnaire data in personality research Behavtoral Sctence, 9, 341-358 Cattell, R B , Memfield, P R , Messick, S J , Cartwnght, D S , fit Sells, S B (1966) Editonal statement Multtmnate Behavioral Besearch, 1, 2-3 Cattell, R B , fie Scheier, I H (1961) The meantttg and tneasurement cff tieurottctsm arid anxiety New York Ronald Press Chodorow, N (in press) History and life histories of early women psychoanalysts Dialogue Joumal ofthe Fnetids ofthe San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute Cofer, C N (1981) The history ofthe concept of motivation Joumal (^ the History (t he Behavioral Sciences, 17, 48-53 Cohen, S L (1982) Joumal readership survey Joumal (^Assessment Center Technology, 5, 19-24 Conley, J J (in press) The longitudinal stabihty of perscmality traits A mulhtraitmultimethod-multioccasicm analysis Joumal cf Persottaltty and Soctal Psychology Conti, I , fit McCormack, W A (1984) Fedenco Ffellini Artist m search of self Biography, 7, 292-308 Co<^>er, W H (Intrinsic mottnitton New York Plenum Press Dollard, J (1935) Criterwfitr the Itfe history New Haven, CT Y^ University Pre...

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Mark Twain's Exhibitionism

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Using personal and fictional documents to assess psychosocial development: A case study of Vera Brittain's generativity.

Using personal and fictional documents to assess psychosocial development: A case study of Vera Brittain's generativity.

A Quantitative Case Study of Longitudinal Changes in Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity

Personality research methods: An historical perspective

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