1st Edition
Optimal Human Being An Integrated Multi-level Perspective
Biography
Kennon M. Sheldon
"...proposes a novel conceptual framework for personality psychology and its relation to other human sciences."
—Book News"The book provides a well-documented argument for an integration of ideas from the human sciences....exceptionally well referenced, and includes both an author and a subject index, making it especially useful as a supplemental textbook."
—Journal of Occupational Science"...this book provides a valuable organizational framework for conceptualizing positive psychology as it relates to personality research."
—Journal of Personality Assessment"Ken Sheldon takes on what is arguably the most important question in all of the social sciences: What is optimal human living? The answers he provides are convincing, and they are grounded in solid empirical research. Sheldon offers a compelling psychological model for understanding the different levels of personality and situating the person within a complex biological and cultural context...a conceptual tour de force that should be read by academics, researchers, clinicians, and others who look to psychological science to make sense of human nature."
—Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D.
Northwestern University"Ken Sheldon proposes a model to integrate the human sciences with the biological and physical sciences....this convincing scholarly effort derives a value-free view of optimal functioning from the theoretical model."
—Ed Diener, Ph.D.
Alumni Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign" The author...presents the nuances and intricacies of many theories better than the originators of the theories themselves....The book should be required reading for professors and students interested in personality and/or optimal human functioning..."
—Richard Koestner, Ph.D.
McGill University
