Unity and Modularity in the Mind and Self: Studies on the Relationships between Self-awareness, Personality, and Intellectual Development from Childhood to Adolescence / Edition 1

by Andreas Demetriou, Smaragda Kazi

Overview

This book explores the relationships between intellectual development, self and personality, and proposes a comprehensive theory which answers such fundamental questions as: how do humans become aware of themselves? How do people come to know and influence each other? These questions are answered on the basis of four empirical studies, highlighting the development of self-awareness in those aged from 10 to 20 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415862813
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/2015
Series:	Routledge Research International Library of Psychology
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andreas Demetriou is a professor of psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences and the Vice-Rector of the University of Cyprus. He has studied the development of the mind for over two decades and his current work aims to integrate conceptions of the mind, personality and the self into a comprehensive theory.

Table of Contents

List of tables viii

List of figures ix

Acknowledgements xii

Preface xiv

Foreword xix

1 Introduction: from cognitive structures to mind, personality and self 1

2 Study 1: Structure and development of cognitive abilities, self-evaluation and self-representarion 31

3 Results I: Levels, dimensions, and domains in performance, self-evaluation, and self-representation 60

4 Results II: Development and individual differences in cognitive abilities, sell-evaluation, and self-representation 92

5 Study 2: Families of mind: relationships between children's self-representations and parents representations about them 120

6 Study 3: From processing speed to self-representation 144

7 Study 4: Cognitive self-image, thinking styles and the big five factors of personality 164

8 General discussion: the emerging self: the convergence of mind, personality, and self 197

Appendices 219

Bibliography 236

Index 245

Editorial Reviews

'...it seems to boost an inductive approach for research on structures of the self.' - Werner Greve, International Journal of Behavioural Development

'It seems to boost an inductive approach for research on structures of the self.' - International Journal of Behavioural Development

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