Charles Donald Spielberger, Ph.D. (1927–2013), was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida for over 40 years (O’Roark et al. 2014). He was a clinical and community psychologist with research in the areas of: clinical and health psychology, behavioral medicine, assessment of emotions including anxiety, anger, curiosity, and depression; job stress; personality and learning; psychosocial risk factors associated with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer; cross-cultural research on emotion and personality; community psychology; and the assessment and treatment of test anxiety (O’Roark 2013). He died at the age of 86 from congestive heart failure and is survived by his wife Carol and son Nicholas (Morgan 2014).
Early Life and Educational Background
Spielberger was born on March 28, 1927. His grandparents had emigrated from Hungary to Arkansas in the nineteenth century. His parents moved when he and his younger sister Joyce were children...
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Sydeman, S. (2017). Spielberger, Charles D.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1003-1
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