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Barkauskiene, Rasa; Skabeikyte, Gabriele; Gervinskaite-Paulaitiene, Lina – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2021
Background: Borderline personality symptoms include emotional dysregulation, high levels of impulsivity leading to self-harm and suicidality, an unstable sense of self, fears of abandonment, extremely turbulent relationships, and psychic pain. They are considered to disrupt normative adolescent development however their unique contribution to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Personality Problems, Correlation
Conger, Rand D.; Martin, Monica J.; Masarik, April S. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Building on recommendations from several of the articles in the special section on conscientiousness in the June 2014 issue of "Developmental Psychology," the present study tested predictions from the interactionist model (IM) of socioeconomic influences on individual development. In an approach consistent with the idea of cumulative…
Descriptors: Correlation, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Child Rearing
Hill, Patrick L.; Weston, Sara J.; Jackson, Joshua J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The current study examined whether relationships also influence personality trait development during middle and older adulthood, focusing on the individual's perception of support from the relationship partner. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 20,422; mean age = 65.9 years), we examined the longitudinal relationships between…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Adults, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study explores how psychosocial development and personality traits are related. In particular, the study investigates the predictive power of the successful resolution of the Eriksonian psychosocial crises for the Big Five personality traits beyond age and gender. Four hundred university students in mainland China responded to the Measures of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Development, Foreign Countries, Personality
Strauser, David R.; O'Sullivan, Deirdre; Wong, Alex W. K. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2012
The authors investigated the relationship between the variables of work engagement, developmental work personality, and academic effort in a sample of college students. This study provides evidence for the hypothesized positive relationship between academic effort, engagement, and work personality. When gender was controlled, the Work Tasks…
Descriptors: College Students, Work Attitudes, Personality, Learner Engagement
Weigold, Arne; Weigold, Ingrid K.; Russell, Elizabeth J. – Psychological Methods, 2013
Self-report survey-based data collection is increasingly carried out using the Internet, as opposed to the traditional paper-and-pencil method. However, previous research on the equivalence of these methods has yielded inconsistent findings. This may be due to methodological and statistical issues present in much of the literature, such as…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Data Collection, Surveys, Online Surveys
Robeson, Ramie A. – 1997
This study investigated the long-term stability of the nine temperament subcategories which underlie the Thomas and Chess temperament clusters. A homogeneous sample of 55 children and parents was recruited (26 remained at the final data collection interval) and parents provided questionnaire responses on their child's temperament at 2, 4, 6, 18,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies
Teglasi, Hedwig – 1995
Temperament refers to basic dimensions of personality that are grounded in biology and explain individual differences in the developmental process rather than universal dynamics. Temperament is currently an active area of research with documented applicability to a variety of developmental and mental health outcomes such as conscience formation,…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Evaluation Methods, Individual Development, Individual Differences

Teglasi, Hedwig – School Psychology Review, 1998
Importance of temperament continues to spur interest in research. This article examines unresolved conceptual issues in the measurement of temperament. Despite many psychometric problems and conceptual shortcomings of measures derived from various perspectives that are available to assess temperament, the constructs themselves have important…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Individual Development, Measures (Individuals), Personality Measures
Roberts, Dayton Y. – 1975
The growth of interest in personalized learning, which emphasizes the realization and development of the self-concept in the learning process, prompted educators to combine the Jungian psychological theories of Perceiving and Judging with the personality types measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to form a model for veiwing community…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Humanistic Education, Individual Development, Learning Modalities

Piedmont, Ralph L. – Assessment, 1994
Reliability and construct validity of observer ratings on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) were evaluated in a sample of 101 college students and the observations of 2 people who knew each student. Results document the strong internal consistency of each scale and a factor structure replicating previous findings. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Friendship, Higher Education, Individual Development
Walton, Dan R. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1973
Attempts to define group-produced growth in self-actualization and personality. (Author)
Descriptors: Creativity, Individual Development, Personality Measures, Personality Studies

Silvestri, Timothy J.; Richardson, Tina Q. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Investigates the relationship between White racial identity development and the personality constructs Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. White college students (N=105) were administered the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and the New Racism Scale. Results indicate that…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development, Personality Measures
Brennan, Thomas P.; Piechowski, Michael M. – 1987
Case studies of self-actualizing people according to the ideas of A. Maslow and the criteria of K. Dabrowski are presented. To find people meeting the criteria of Level 4 of the Dabrowski theory, a pool of 21 subjects was established by nomination. All subjects were given the Definition-Response Instrument to assess levels of emotional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Individual Development
Trimble, W. Eugene – 1973
The problem was to evaluate the self-concept differences revealed in the personality profiles of underdeveloped junior high school boys who had been participating in a special non-competitive program of physical education. Five subproblems were explored. The underdeveloped boys were compared with junior high athletes for personality differences. A…
Descriptors: Athletes, Doctoral Dissertations, Individual Development, Junior High School Students