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Jack Block
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 131
Citations - 19137
Jack Block is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Personality development. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 131 publications receiving 18553 citations.
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The Role of Ego-Control and Ego-Resiliency in the Organization of Behavior
Jeanne H. Block,Jack Block +1 more
TL;DR: For what now approaches 30 years, Block et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the implications of two personality parameters they have chosen to call ego-control and ego-resiliency, and evaluated their behavioral relevance in a wide range of experim ental situations.
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A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description.
TL;DR: In this article, various misgivings about the FFA are delineated and implications of these problems are drawn.
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IQ and ego-resiliency: conceptual and empirical connections and separateness.
Jack Block,Adam M. Kremen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the constructs of intelligence and ego-resiliency are discussed and the personality implications of "pure intelligence" and "pure egoresilience" were identified.
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Adolescent drug use and psychological health: A longitudinal inquiry.
Jonathan Shedler,Jack Block +1 more
TL;DR: Adolescents who had engaged in some drug experimentation were the best-adjusted in the sample, and those who used drugs frequently were maladjusted, showing a distinct personality syndrome marked by interpersonal alienation, poor impulse control, and manifest emotional distress.
Book
The Q-sort method in personality assessment and psychiatric research
TL;DR: The Q-technique as mentioned in this paper is a language instrument for describing a personality in psychodynamic terms so that it can be subjected to quantitative comparisons and analysis, and the major portion of the book describes the theoretical foundations for Q-Technique, surveys the psychodynamic foundations, and provides a helpful orientation to this method.