Linking childhood personality with adaptation

Evidence for continuity and change across time into late adolescence

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ID6202233
AuthorsRebecca L Shiner (0000-0001-5310-5832, Colgate University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume78
Issue2
Pages310-325
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/0022-3514.78.2.310
PMID10707337
OpenAlexW2068262245
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited28

Four personality traits--Mastery Motivation, Academic Conscientiousness, Surgent Engagement, and Agreeableness--were measured in a community sample of 205 children (ages 8-12), who were followed up 10 years later. Childhood personality was examined in relation to concurrent and longitudinal adaptation in 3 domains--academic achievement, rule-abiding versus antisocial conduct, and peer social competence. The childhood personality traits evidenced robust, conceptually coherent relationships with adaptation, both concurrently and across time. Childhood personality added to the prediction of later adaptation, beyond childhood IQ and earlier adaptation in the same domain. Few sex differences were obtained in the relationships between childhood personality and adaptation. The present results document both continuity and discontinuity in the links between childhood personality and adaptation across childhood into late adolescence

Adaptation (eye · Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Childhood development · Conscientiousness · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Extraversion and introversion · Personality · Personality development · Social change · Social competence · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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