Guidance in Personality Development

Allport Gordon W. Personality: A Psychological Interpretation. (Henry Holt and Company: New York, 1937. 588 pp.)

A scholarly and enlightening treatment of the psychological approaches to personality; its development, structure, analysis, and study.

Campbell C. Macfie . Human Personality and the Environment. (The Macmillan Company: New York, 1934. 252 pp.)

An excellent discussion of environmental factors in personality development.

Francis Kenneth Victor , and Fillmore Eva A. “The influence of environment upon the personality of children.” University of Iowa Studies in Child Welfare, 9: No. 2, 1934, 5–71.

Evidence from interviews and case study records of the important influence of the family on the child's personality and adjustment.

Jones Mary Cover , and Burks Barbara Stoddard . Personality Development in Childhood: A Survey of Problems, Methods and Experimental Findings. (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. I, No. 4. National Research Council: Washington, D. C, 1936. 205 pp.) A constructive review of the genetic aspect of personality development.

Murphy Gardner , and Murphy Lois Barclay . Experimental Social Psychology. (Harper and Brothers: New York, Revised ed., 1937)

A complete revision of the original volume, excellent in its completeness and scholarship.

National Education Association. Personality Adjustment of the Elementary School Child. (Fifteenth Yearbook of the Department of Elementary School Principals, Vol. 15, July, 1936, 227–672)

A variety of practical suggestions regarding the nature, needs, and problems of the child, and out-of-school and school factors affecting child adjustment, including the teacher's influence, the specialist's contributions, administrative and supervisory policies, and ways of discovering, evaluating, and remedying behavior difficulties.

Shaffer Laurence Frederick . The Psychology of Adjustment, An Objective

Approach to Mental Hygiene. (Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1930. 600 pp.)

A focusing of psychological theory on the problem of adjustment.

Sherif Muzafer . The Psychology of Social Norms. (Harper and Brothers: New York, 1936. 209 pp.)

An excellent discussion of the way in which an individual's system of values and social norms develops.

Strang Ruth . Behavior and Background of Students in College and Secondary School. (Harper and Brothers: New York, 1937. 465 pp.)

Chapter I deals with problems of adjustment; Chapter V, with the nature, development, and study of the personality of high-school and college students; Chapter VI, with attitudes and interests.

Taft Julia Jessie . The Dynamics of Therapy in a Controlled Relationship. (The Macmillan Company: New York, 1933. 296 pp.)

A detailed, concrete description of the method of observation and therapy in a controlled environment.

Vernon Philip E. “The American vs. the German methods of approach to the study of temperament and personality.” British Journal of Psychology, 24: October, 1933, 156–177.

Vernon Philip E. “Can the total personality be studied objectively?” Character and Personality, 4: September, 1935, 1–10.