PERSONALITY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (Edition 1.8) guides students through the contemporary discipline of personality psychology. The book draws on the field's best supported theoretical ideas and its cutting-edge research. Students cover four broad topics: (1) what personality is and how it is studied, (2) personality's major parts-from motives and emotions to mental models and traits, (3) how personality is organized and (4) the ways personality develops. By studying these four topics, students learn about human personality, including their own, and the influence of personality on an individual's life.