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Hill, Patrick L.; Allemand, Mathias; Grob, Sabine Zehnder; Peng, Aristide; Morgenthaler, Christoph; Kappler, Christoph – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
The current study focused on three aspects of identity development relevant to the adolescent years: being an authentic person, perceiving control over and consistency in one's environment, and having consistent expectations from close others. In a two-wave study of adolescents (n = 750), we examined how these aspects change over the course of a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Adolescents, Personality Development, Self Concept
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Meeus, Wim; Van de Schoot, Rens; Klimstra, Theo; Branje, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2011
We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intimacy, Adolescents, Personality Change
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Barber, James P.; King, Patricia M.; Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on a study that examined the subset of qualitative cases in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education where students experienced substantial self-authorship shifts over the first three college years (N = 30 students, 90 narratives). Engagement in experiences and roles demanding more sophisticated, internal meaning…
Descriptors: College Students, Qualitative Research, Student Experience, Longitudinal Studies
Kreppner, Kurt – 1989
This study was designed to investigate aspects of childhood social functioning in early interaction and socialization patterns of normal families. Sixteen families with a child between 1 and 3 years of age, and a second child born when the study began, were observed over a 2-year period. Intelligence tests were administered to both children when…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Family Characteristics, Family Structure
van Aken, Marcel A. G. – 1996
This longitudinal study examined consistency and change in human personality. Rather than studying the consistency of individual differences over time, an approach which considers only the stability of a variable at the group level and ignores differences in stability at an individual level, this study used a person-centered approach to study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Foreign Countries
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – 1987
Early personality and environmental characteristics that predict later problematic aggression and depression in children were investigated longitudinally. A developmental psychopathology approach was taken. (This approach assumes that patterns of adaptation and maladaptation in development can best be understood when explored simultaneously and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Infants