Background
Loevinger, Jane was born on February 6, 1918 in St. Paul. Daughter of Gustavus and Millie (Strouse) Loevinger.
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Using T.S. Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions as a framework, this book presents five major theories of personality: psychoanalysis, behaviourism, psychometric traits, social learning theory, and cognitive developmentalism. Each theory provides unique access to a different facet of the person: the dynamic unconscious, behaviour and its control, traits, social behaviour and cognition, and character development.
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Jane Loevinger was the first to develop a quantitative measure of adult ego development beyond Piaget's formal operations stage.
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Loevinger, Jane was born on February 6, 1918 in St. Paul. Daughter of Gustavus and Millie (Strouse) Loevinger.
Bachelor in Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1937; Master of Science in Psychometrics, University of Minnesota, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy. in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1944.
She was a developmental psychologist who developed a theory of personality which emphasized the gradual internalization of social rules and the maturing conscience for the origin of personal decisions. She also contributed to the theory of measurements by introducing the coefficient of test homogeneity. In the tradition of developmental stage models, Loevinger integrated several "frameworks of meaning-making" into a model of humans" constructive potentials that she called ego development (de:Ich-Entwicklung).
The essence of the ego is the striving to master, to integrate, and make sense of experience.
She also is credited with the creation of an assessment test, the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. She went to the University of Minnesota in hopes of pursuing Psychology, where she was told that this major was too mathematical for her.
Despite the odds, Jane declared her major as Psychology and managed to graduate magna cum laude at the young age of 19 years old. She then went on to earn her master of science degree in psychometrics at the age of 21.
Still intrigued with the world of psychology, Jane went on to enroll in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a research assistant for Erik Erikson.
In 1943, Jane married Samuel Isaac Weissman (June 25, 1912 – June 12, 2007), a scientist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. Samuel Weissman worked on the weapon design of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, while Jane stayed at Berkeley to finish her dissertation. The family then moved to Saint Louis where Jane taught part time at the Washington University in Saint Louis.
During this time, Jane and her research team developed a number of studies and finding, including the renowned Washington University Sentence Completion Test.
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Fellow American Psychological Association (president Division 5 1962-1963, member commission on tests, member policy and planning board 1969-1972, member policy task force on psychologists in criminal justice system 1976-1977, president Division 24 1982-1983, commission on early career award in personality 1985), Phi Beta Kappa, SigmaXi (associate).
Married Samuel I. Weissman, July 13, 1943. Children: Judith, Michael B.