The Development of Personality Extremity From Childhood to Adolescence: Relations to Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

被引:12
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作者
Van den Akker, Alithe L. [1 ]
Prinzie, Peter [1 ]
Dekovic, Maja [1 ]
De Haan, Amaranta D. [2 ]
Asscher, Jessica J. [3 ]
Widiger, Thomas [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Utrecht, Dept Child & Adolescent Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands
[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Dev Psychol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[3] Univ Amsterdam, Res Ctr Forens Child & Youth Care Studies, NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Univ Kentucky, Dept Psychol, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
关键词
Big Five personality; personality structure; growth mixture modeling; internalizing problems; externalizing problems; PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; 5-FACTOR MODEL; DISORDERS; DIMENSIONS; RESILIENT; TRAITS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; REPLICABILITY; PERSPECTIVE;
D O I
10.1037/a0034441
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study investigated the development of personality extremity (deviation of an average midpoint of all 5 personality dimensions together) across childhood and adolescence, as well as relations between personality extremity and adjustment problems. For 598 children (mean age at Time 1 = 7.5 years), mothers and fathers reported the Big Five personality dimensions 4 times across 8 years. Children's vector length in a 5-dimensional configuration of the Big Five dimensions represented personality extremity. Mothers, fathers, and teachers reported children's internalizing and externalizing problems at the 1st and final measurement. In a cohort-sequential design, we modeled personality extremity in children and adolescents from ages 6 to 17 years. Growth mixture modeling revealed a similar solution for both mother and father reports: a large group with relatively short vectors that were stable over time (mother reports: 80.3%; father reports: 84.7%) and 2 smaller groups with relatively long vectors (i.e., extreme personality configuration). One group started out relatively extreme and decreased over time (mother reports: 13.2%; father reports: 10.4%), whereas the other group started out only slightly higher than the short vector group but increased across time (mother reports: 6.5%; father reports: 4.9%). Children who belonged to the increasingly extreme class experienced more internalizing and externalizing problems in late adolescence, controlling for previous levels of adjustment problems and the Big Five personality dimensions. Personality extremity may be important to consider when identifying children at risk for adjustment problems.
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页码:1038 / 1048
页数:11
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