Personality Development in Individuals with Mental Retardation

This volume, first published in 1999, provides a single resource for all those working in mental retardation.

Edward Zigler (Edited by), Dianne Bennett-Gates (Edited by), Donald Cohen (Foreword by)

9780521630481, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 August 1999

306 pages, 16 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.62 kg

"In addition to delighting readers, this jewel of a volume will invite a new generation of researchers to an often overlooked area. As Cohen predicts in the book's foreward, there are "decades of thrilling work ahead."" American Journal on Mental Retardation

This volume, first published in 1999, culminates more than 40 years of theory and research in the field of mental retardation. As a champion of developmental approach, Edward Zigler emphasizes the importance of personality and motivation factors in understanding the behavior of individuals with mental retardation. He argues that personality, emotions, and motivation should be recognized as important determinants in the performance of retarded individuals just as they are with nonretarded individuals. In addition to summarizing Zigler's developmental formulation of mental retardation, this volume integrates the work of several major researchers as it elaborates the relationship between personality-motivation and cognitive performance. Empirical work is augmented with practical implications for professionals involved in identifying, educating, and integrating mentally retarded individuals into society. As there is no other single publication that combines the issues, theories, and research with practical implications, this book makes a significant contribution to the field of mental retardation.

Part I: 1. The individual with mental retardation as a whole person Edward Zigler
2. Intrinsic motivation and motivational self-system processes in persons with mental retardation: a theory of motivational orientation Harvey N. Switzky
3. Cognitive performance and learned helplessness in mentally retarded persons John R. Weisz
4. Developmental and experiential variables in the self-images of people with mild mental retardation Marion Glick
Part II: 5. Motivation for social reinforcement: positive and negative reaction tendency Dianne Bennett-Gates and Edward Zigler
6. Expectancy of success in individuals with mental retardation Dianne Bennett-Gates and Shulamith Kreitler
7. The effectance motivation and the performance of individuals with mental retardation Dianne Bennett-Gates
8. Outerdirectedness Jane Bybee and Edward Zigler
9. Assessing personality traits of individuals with mental retardation Edward Zigler, Dianne Bennett-Gates and Robert M. Hodapp
Part III: 10. Parenting, etiology, and personality-motivational functioning in children with mental retardation Robert M. Hodapp and Deborah J. Fidler
11. Personality-motivation: new ties to Psychopathology, etiology, and intervention Elisabeth M. Dykens.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]