Reviews for Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities

The average rating for Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-19 00:00:00 Elizabeth Whealon Wyman Interesting book. It starts with a brief critical look at a variety of personality theories and then describes the one that the author and collaborators developed, the Five-Factor Theory, which (according to him) is based on factor analysis of a variety of personality inventories. The FFT views individuals as differing on the following five factors: 1. emotional stability or neuroticism-->high neuroticism means low emotional stability, and vice-versa.High neuroticism correlates with (or measures, it's hard to tell them apart) anxiety and depression. 2. Openness to Experience is harder to describe so I'll copy and paste wikipedia's description: " People high in openness are motivated to seek new experiences and to engage in self-examination. Structurally, they have a fluid style of consciousness that allows them to make novel associations between remotely connected ideas. Closed people by contrast are more comfortable with familiar and traditional experiences." 3. Conscientiousness-->corresponds to human intuitions of 'hard-working', 'reliable', being good at following through with commitments, etc. 4. Extroversion and Introversion-->the former seek stimulation in the form of people, the latter have a higher need for time alone. 5. Agreeableness-->high in agreeableness means you lean towards cooperation, harmony, kindness, cooperation; low in agreeableness means you lean towards dominance, manipulation, etc. The key findings of the FFT research are that self-reports and reports by close produce mostly identical personality reports, suggesting that self-reports on personality are valid; that personality is very stable after adulthood (~20); that personality is substantially heritable (identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins, separated at birth identical twins are very similar); that personality has significant effects on life outcomes. There wasn't much research documented on the actual effects of personality, since the author spent most of his time documenting the evidence for the FFT and not on research on personality in young adulthood and life outcomes. I do wish there had been more on actual life impacts of personality: the research on young adulthood conscientiousness predicting higher income in later adulthood, extroversion/introversion affecting career choices, etc. 4/5

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-06 00:00:00 Lee Ann Conrad This book merges the fields of personality and developemental psychology (adult development / gerontology) and its main premise is that personality as assessed by Five Factor Theory is stable in adulthood. The major portion and energy of authors is spend in defending this position and alongside one gets a rich overview of methodological issues in measuring personality, not only traits but also other approaches like projective tests and interviews. We now know that this simplistic interpenetration that personality is stable is not correct and picture is more nuanced with some traits showing predictable trajectory over the lifespan. I found the last few chapters much more useful - the rest seemed polemic- defending ones turf of trait based FFT. This could have been a better book, if the authors had exercise more openness to experience and were not dismissive of other approaches.