Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication.

Volume 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development , edited by Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, covers mechanisms of socialization and personality development, including parent/child relationships, peer relationships, emotional development, gender role acquisition, pro-social and anti-social development, motivation, achievement, social cognition, and moral reasoning, plus a new chapter on adolescent development.

作为权威的四卷本参考书的一部分，它横跨整个儿童发展领域，并为所有其他学术参考书树立了标准。为反映该领域的新发展，《儿童心理学手册》第六版进行了更新和修订，包含了有关精神、社会理解和非语言交流等主题的新章节。

第三卷：社会、情感和人格发展，由亚利桑那州立大学的南希-艾森伯格编辑，涵盖了社会化和人格发展的机制，包括父母/儿童关系、同伴关系、情感发展、性别角色的获得、亲社会和反社会的发展、动机、成就、社会认知和道德推理，以及关于青少年发展的新章节。