"...will further entrench thematic approaches in psychological research for years to come...indispenable addition to the library of personality researchers and clinicians." Richard M. Ryan and T. Cameron Wild, Contemprary Psychology

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: inferences from verbal material; Part I. General Issues: 2. Motivational determinants of thematic apperception; 3. How do self-attributed and implicit motives differ?; 4. Thematic analysis, experience sampling, and personal goals; 5. Motivational configurations; 6. Thematic apperceptive methods in survey research; 7. Content analysis of archival materials, personal documents, and everyday verbal productions; 8. Reliability issues; Part II. Content Analysis Systems: 9. The achievement motive; 10. A scoring manual for the achievement motive; 11. The motive to avoid success; 12. A revised scoring manual for the motive to avoid success; Part III. Afflilation: 13. The affiliation motive; 14. A scoring manual for the affiliation motive; 15. The intimacy motive; 16. The intimacy motivation scoring system; 17. Affiliative trust-mistrust; 18. A scoring system for affiliative trust-mistrust; Part IV. Power: 19. Power motivation; 20. A scoring manual for the power motive; 21. Power motivation revisited; 22. A revised scoring system for the power motive; Part V. Attribution and Cognitive Orientations: 23. Personal causation and the origin concept; 24. The origin scoring system; 25. Explanatory style; 26. The explanatory style scoring manual; 27. Conceptual/integrative complexity; 28. The conceptual/integrative complexity scoring manual; 29. Uncertainty orientation; 30. A manual for scoring need for uncertainty; Part VI. Psychosocial Orientations: 31. Assessing adaptation to life changes in terms of psychological stances toward the environment; 32. Scoring manual for psychological stances toward the environment; 33. Self-definition and social definition: personal styles reflected in narrative style; 34. Revised scoring manual for self-definition and social definition; 35. Responsibility; 36. Scoring system for responsibility; Part VII. Methodology, Scorer Training, Data Collection: 37. Methodological consideration: steps in research employing content analysis systems; Appendixes; References; Indexes.