Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Personality Development and Human Nature -- 1. The Emergence of Personality, -- 2. The Evolutionary Context of Personality Development, -- 3. Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development -- 4. The Development of a Person: A Relational–Developmental Systems Perspective -- II. Social Actors: From Temperament to Personality Traits -- 5. Personality Neuroscience: A Developmental Perspective -- 6. Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: A Developmental Model of Links between Temperament and Personality -- 7. Extraversion: Description, Development, and Mechanisms -- 8. Negative Emotionality and Neuroticism from Childhood through Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective -- 9. Lifespan Development of Conscientiousness -- 10. Agreeableness -- 11. The Structure, Measurement, and Development of Openness to Experience across Adulthood -- 12. Temperament and Personality Trait Development in the Family: Interactions and Transactions with Parenting from Infancy through Adolescence -- 13. Culture, Context, and the Development of Traits -- 14. Stability and Change in Personality Traits over the Lifespan -- III. Motivated Agents: The Development of Goals and Values -- 15. Attachment and Social Development within a Life-History Perspective -- 16. Needs, Motives, and Personality Development: Unanswered Questions and Exciting Potentials -- 17. Achievement Strivings: Motives and Goals that Promote Competence -- 18. Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective -- 19. Development of Self-Esteem across the Lifespan -- 20. Moral Development and Moral Values: Evolutionary and Neurobiological Influences -- 21. Religion, Spirituality, and the Agential Self -- 22. Culture and the Development of Motives, Values, and Social Selves -- IV. Autobiographical Authors: Life Stories and the Search for Meaning -- 23. Developmental Foundations of the Narrative Author in Early Mother–Child Reminiscing -- 24. Narrative Identity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Pathways of Development -- 25. Narrative Identity Development across the Lifespan and Psychological Well-Being -- 26. Narrative, Identity, and Identity Statuses: Reflections on the Kaleidoscopic Self -- 27. The Dialogic Development of Personality: Narrative, Culture, and the Study of Lives, V. Applications and Integrations -- 28. Personality Development and Health -- 29. The Development of Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan -- 30. Personality Development and Internalizing Psychopathology -- 31. Personality Development and Externalizing Psychopathology -- 32. The Development of Personality Disorders -- 33. Personality Development and Relationships in Adulthood.

Bringing together scholars in the field of psychology, this volume considers the development of personality at multiple levels--from the neuroscience of dispositional traits to the cultural shaping of life stories.