Personality Topics in Honor of Jerry S. Wiggins

First published in 2004. The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and the salient issues to consider in conceptualizing and conducting policy research. The emphasis is on introduce, as the various policy fields within the public sector (for example, education, energy, health, labor) are much too diverse to include in depth in a single volume on theoretical concepts and research methods. The focus is not so much on the substance of policymaking as on understanding the interplay between how policy is made and implemented and the various conceptual approaches and methods researchers can use to frame and conduct policy studies. The underlying assumption is that a critique of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological issues involved in studying policy can help researchers conduct policy studies that are more informative in guiding policy development and more effective in assessing the impact of policy reforms. This introduction to theories and methods of conducting policy research is intended to give prospective researchers an appreciation of the relationship among policy. problems, empirical methods, and practice, and to contribute to building their skills in conceptualizing and conducting policy research that answers important questions. The text includes examples of studies to illustrate the diversity of methodological techniques, and discusses issues related to the design and conduct of original educational policy studies. Studying Educational and Social Policy: Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods is designed primarily for graduate courses in educational policy and educational research and is appropriate as well for research methodology courses in other disciplines, including statistics and research methodology in the social sciences, organizational studies, public policy, and political science.

Ronald H. Heck University of Hawaii

Volume 39, Number 2, 2004Contents: L.R. Goldberg, Introduction by Guest Editor. D.S. Nichols, Giving the Self a Voice in MMPI Self-Report: Jerry Wiggins and the Content Scales. E.B. Ansell, A.L. Pincus, Interpersonal Perception of the Five-Factor Model of Personality: An Examination Using the Structural Summary Method for Circumplex Data. M.S.M. Yik, J.A. Russell, On the Relationship Between Circumplexes: Affect and Wiggins' IAS. K.K. Trobst, L.E. Ayearst, R.T. Salekin, Where is the Personality in Personality Disorder Assessment? A Comparison Across Four Sets of Personality Disorder Scales. J.A. Johnson, The Impact of Item Characteristics on Item and Scale Validity. D.L. Paulhus, R.W. Robins, K.H. Trzesniewski, J.L. Tracy, Two Replicable Suppressor Situations in Personality Research. K. Lee, M.C. Ashton, Psychometric Properties of the HEXACO Personality Inventory. R. LaForge, The Early Development of the Interpersonal System of Personality (ISP).