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Personality development

Here are entered works on the growth of characteristics which determine an individual's unique adjustment to his environment.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Child psychology

• Personality development -- China

• Character development
• Character formation
• Development, Character
• Development, Personality
• Formation, Character

• Chinese Foundations for Moral Education and Character Development (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1991), ed. by Tran Van Doan, Shen Qingsong, and George Mclean (multiple formats at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007), by Tim Gill (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Spanking: Questions and Answers About Disciplinary Violence (translated from the 2005 edition, with added commentary; 2009), by Olivier Maurel, trans. by Tom Johnson, contrib. by Alice Miller (HTML at nospank.net)
• For Every Child a Healthy Personality: A Digest of the Fact-Finding Report to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental Development in the Child and the Race (New York: Macmillan, 1906), by James Mark Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology and Parenthood (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1915), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Scientific Training of Children (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Über Konflikte der Kindlichen Seele (second edition, in German; Leipzig and Vienna: F. Deuticke, 1916), by C. G. Jung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Ape and the Child: A Study of Environmental Influence Upon Early Behavior (New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1933), by W. N. Kellogg and Luella Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Value of Praise and Reproof as Incentives for Children (Columbia University dissertation, reprinted from Archives of Psychology #71; 1924), by Elizabeth B. Hurlock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fuentes para el Estudio de la Paidología (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de la Revista de arch., bibl. y museos, 1917), by Domingo Barnés (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cherry Feasts for Barbarous Fourths (Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1909), by Asenath Carver Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• East of Eden (c1952), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Stealth Assessment: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Valerie J. Shute and Matthew Ventura (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Technical Recommendations for Achievement Tests (1955), by American Educational Research Association and National Council on Measurements Used in Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance Tests for Children of Pre-School Age (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #1; 1926), by Rachel S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Individual Differences as Affected by Practice (Archives of Psychology #58, 1922), by Georgina Stickland Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fundamentals of Learning (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932), by Edward L. Thorndike and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Measuring What Matters Most: Choice-Based Assessments for the Digital Age (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Daniel L. Schwartz and Dylan Arena (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), ed. by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)
• Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (ca. 2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)
• Evaluation of "Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress" (1998), by National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Understanding Your Aptitudes (updated successor to Trembly's "Learning to Use Your Aptitudes"; 2011), by Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, contrib. by Dean Trembly (PDF with commentary at jocrf.org)
• Assessment of Men: Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1948), by United States Office of Strategic Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Born That Way (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1928), by Johnson O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation (1914), by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (HTML at York)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)

• (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Brian A. Huot
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bridging the Gap: The Transfer Class (Harvard-Newton bulletin #3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University , 1915), by Frank Watson Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Manual of Directions for Giving and Scoring the Dearborn Group Tests of Intelligence (2 volumes; Philadelphia et al.: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), contrib. by Walter F. Dearborn
  • Series I (general exams 1-3 for grades 1-3): page images at HathiTrust
  • Series II (general exams 4-5 for grades 4-9): multiple formats at archive.org
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thoughts on Children (Rifton, NY et al.: Plough Publishing House, c2012), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at plough.com)

• Child Development (partial serial archives)
• The Psychological Clinic (full serial archives)
• The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology (partial serial archives)
• The Pedagogical Seminary (partial serial archives)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

• Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2010), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Agency and Resilience (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, c2020), ed. by Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, and Ana Delicado (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Infant Behavior: Its Genesis and Growth (first edition; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1934), by Arnold Gesell and Helen Thompson, contrib. by Catherine Strunk Amatruda (page images at HathiTrust)

• Love as the Foundation of Moral Education and Character Development, ed. by Luis Ugalde, Nicholas Barros, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)

• American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2006), by Kirsten Lise Fermaglich (PDF at Brandeis)
• Foundations of Psychohistory, by Lloyd DeMause (illustrated HTML at psychohistory.com)
• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.