Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- 31 Personality at Work
- 32 Educational Psychology
- 33 Personality in Clinical Psychology
- 34 Personality and Crime
- 35 Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomic Behavior
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
34 - Personality and Crime
from Part VII - Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- 31 Personality at Work
- 32 Educational Psychology
- 33 Personality in Clinical Psychology
- 34 Personality and Crime
- 35 Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomic Behavior
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
Summary
At its most basic level, personality refers to relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving manifested by individuals. Personality is internal; it refers to characteristics that reside within the individual. Personality has broad effects and accounts for stable behavior patterns across time and situations. Personality is important to a variety of negative and positive outcomes including academic achievement (Poropat, 2009), work performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991) and satisfaction (Judge, Heller & Mount, 2002), leadership (Judge, Bono, Ilies & Gerhardt, 2002), physical (Bogg & Roberts, 2004) and psychological health (Malouff, Thorsteinsson & Schutte, 2005; Samuel & Widiger, 2008), subjective wellbeing (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998) and relationship satisfaction (Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar & Rooke, 2010).
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 463 - 476Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020