Updesh Kumar is Scientist 'G' and Head of the Mental Health Division at the Defense Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) for the Indian Government. His publications include Suicidal Behaviour: Assessment of People-at-Risk (2010); Countering Terrorism: Psychosocial Strategies (2012); Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Psychosocial Dynamics (2014); Suicidal Behaviour: Underlying Dynamics (2015); Positive Psychology: Applications in Work, Health and Well-being (2015) and The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Resilience (in press). In 2013, he was awarded the DRDO’s Scientist of the Year Award by the Indian Government.

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• About the Editor x About the Contributors xiiForeword by Professor Irving B. Weiner xxxiPreface xxxiiiSection I Emerging Conceptual Trends 11 Integrating Trait and Process Approaches to Personality: A Sketch of an Agenda 3Robert R. McCrae2 Personality Assessment and Theory 19Philip J. Corr and Arthur E. Poropat3 Situational Perception: Its Theoretical Foundation, Assessment, and Links to Personality 31Kai T. Horstmann and Matthias Ziegler4 Temperamental Components of the Developing Personality 44James B. Victor, Mary K. Rothbart, Spencer R. Baker, and Jennifer L. Tackett5 Integrity Tests: A Review of Alternate Conceptualizations and Some Measurement and Practical Issues 59Chockalingam Viswesvaran and Deniz S. Ones6 Network Analysis: A New Way to Think about Personality 74Giulio Costantini and Marco Perugini7 Theory and Measurement of Trait Emotional Intelligence 90K.V. Petrides, Alexander B. Siegling, and Donald H. Saklofske8 Beyond IQ and EQ: The Bar‐On Multifactor Model of Performance 104Reuven Bar‐On9 Measuring the Dark Side of Personality 119Ashton C. Southard and Virgil Zeigler‐Hill10 Diversity and Assessment 134Joyce P. Chu, Brian A. Maruyama, Ashley Elefant, and Bruce Bongar11 Future Directions for Personality Assessment: An African Perspective 146Sumaya Laher12 Advances in the Use and Interpretation of the MMPI‐2 158Salazar‐Schneiderman, Caroline S. Tonetti, Lacey M. Sommers, and Roger L. GreeneSection II Emerging Assessment Perspectives and Methodological Issues 17313 Objective Personality Assessment with the MMPI‐2: An Internationally Adaptable Measure 175James N. Butcher14 Precision Assessment: An Individualized and Temporally Dynamic Approach to Understanding Patients in their Daily Lives 192Michael J. Roche and Aaron L. Pincus15 Are Situational Judgment Tests Better Assessments of Personality than Traditional Personality Tests in High‐Stakes Testing? 205Deborah L. Whetzel and Michael A. McDaniel16 Alternatives to Self‐Reports: Conditional Reasoning Problems and Implicit Association Test (IAT) Based Tasks 215Zvonimir Galic,́ Andreja Bubic,́ and Maja Parmac ̌Kovacǐ ć17 Therapeutic Assessment in Clinical and Counseling Psychology Practice 228Radhika Krishnamurthy, Stephen E. Finn, and Filippo Aschieri18 Personality Assessment in Ecological Settings by Means of Virtual Reality 240Pietro Cipresso and Giuseppe Riva19 The Use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL‐R) and Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) in Forensic Psychological Assessment 249Carl B. Gacono, Aaron J. Kivisto, Jason M. Smith, and Ted B. Cunliffe20 Holtzman Inkblot Technique and Personality Assessment 268C.R. Darolia21 Integrative Treatments Come of Age: Systematic Treatment Selection (STS) 285Christopher J. Edwards, Lori Holleran, and Larry E. Beutler22 Personality Assessment Paradigms: Issues and Challenges 302Vijay Parkash and Updesh Kumar23 Identification and Assessment of the Correlates of Military Suicide 323Kasie L. Hummel, James Sottile, Danielle Spangler, and Bruce Bongar24 Integrative Clinical Assessment of Sexual and Gender Minority Clients 333Whitney Bliss, Samantha Pflum, Matthew Skinta, Rylan J. Testa, Rebecca Floyd, and Peter Goldblum25 Using the Johnson‐Neyman Procedure to Detect Item Bias in Personality Tests: A Proposed New Method andPractical Guidelines for Data Analysis 346Burak Tunca26 User Reactions to Personality Assessment: Implications for Assessment Credibility, Utility, and Practicality 361Chris D. Fluckinger and Andrea F. Snell27 Novel Approaches to Adjusting for Positive Response Distortion with the Personality Assessment Inventory 374John E. Kurtz, Lindsey L. Bupp, and Corinne M. Henk28 Applicant Faking Behavior: The Elephant in the Room 387Richard L. Griffith, Patrick D. Converse, Yumiko Mochinushi, and Matthias Ziegler29 Transforming Assessment: New Pedagogies for the Digital Age 399Swati Johar and Updesh Kumar30 Ethical Issues in Personality Assessment 415Swati Mukherjee and Updesh KumarIndex 427