pt. 1: Personality development and human nature
The emergence of personality / Dan P. McAdams
The evolutionary context of personality development / Marco Del Giudice
Theoretical concepts in the genetics of personality development / Elliot M. Tucker-Drob and Daniel A. Briley
The development of a person: a relational-developmental systems perspective / Richard M. Lerner and Jacqueline V. Lerner
pt. 2: Social actors: from temperament to personality traits
Personality neuroscience: a developmental perspective / Colin G. DeYoung and Timothy A. Allen
Emotion reactivity and regulation: a developmental model of links between temperament and personality / Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Alicia Vallorani, and Berenice Anaya
Extraversion: description, development, and mechanisms / Luke D. Smillie, Margaret L. Kern, and Mirko Uljarevic
Negative emotionality and neuroticism from childhood through adulthood: a lifespan perspective / Rebecca L. Shiner
Lifespan development of conscientiousness / Joshua J. Jackson and Patrick L. Hill
Agreeableness / Jennifer L. Tackett, Maciel M. Hernández, and Nancy Eisenberg
The structure, measurement, and development of openness to experience across adulthood / Ted Schwaba
Temperament and personality trait development in the family: interactions and transactions with parenting from infancy through adolescence / Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein, and Peter Prinzie
Culture, context, and the development of traits / Helena R. Slobodskaya
Stability and change in personality traits over the lifespan / Wiebke Bleidorn and Christopher Hopwood
pt. 3: Motivated agents: the development of goals and values
Attachment and social development within a life-history perspective / Jeffry A. Simpson and Rachael E. Jones
Needs, motives, and personality development: unanswered questions and exciting potentials / Kennon M. Sheldon and Julia Schüler
Achievement strivings: motives and goals that promote competence / Amanda M. Durik and K. Ann Renninger
Personality development in adulthood: a goal perspective / Alexandra M. Freund, Christopher M. Napolitano, and Joshua L. Rutt
Development of self-esteem across the lifespan / Ulrich Orth and Richard W. Robins
Moral development and moral values: evolutionary and neurobiological influences / Darcia Narvaez
Religion, spirituality, and the agential self / Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, and Dan Farina
Culture and the development of motives, values, and social selves / Gary S. Gregg
pt. 4: Autobiographical authors: life stories and the search for meaning
Developmental foundations of the narrative author in early mother-child reminiscing / Robyn Fivush, Elaine Reese, and Jordan A. Booker
Narrative identity in adolescence and adulthood: pathways of development / Kate C. McLean and Jennifer P. Lilgendahl
Narrative identity development across the lifespan and psychological well-being / Jonathan M. Adler
Narrative, identity, and identity statuses: reflections on the kaleidoscopic self / Ruthellen Josselson
The dialogic development of personality: narrative, culture, and the study of lives / Phillip L. Hammack and Erin E. Toolis
pt. 5: Applications and integrations
Personality development and health / Sara E. Hampson
The development of subjective well-being across the lifespan / Nathan W. Hudson, Richard E. Lucas, and M. Brent Donnellan
Personality development and internalizing psychopathology / C. Emily Durbin
Personality development and externalizing psychopathology / Michelle M. Martel, Tess E. Smith, and Christine A. Lee
The development of personality disorders / Andrew M. Chanen and Katherine N. Thompson
Personality development and relationships in adulthood / Jennifer M. Senia and M. Brent Donnellan.