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Developmental Personality Types from Childhood to Adolescence: Associations with Parenting and Adjustment
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de Haan, Amaranta D.; Dekovic, Maja; van den Akker, Alithe L.; Stoltz, Sabine E. M. J.; Prinzie, Peter – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether changes in children's self-reported Big Five dimensions are represented by (developmental) personality types, using a cohort-sequential design with three measurement occasions across 5 years (four cohorts, 9-12 years at T1; N = 523). Correlates of, and gender differences in, type membership were examined. Latent…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Development, Preadolescents, Longitudinal Studies
The Structure and Development of Dispositional Compassion in Early Adolescence
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Bengtsson, Hans; Söderström, Micael; Terjestam, Yvonne – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Compassion may be directed at a broad range of targets. The present study investigated interrelations among other-directed compassion, self-compassion, and environmental compassion in early adolescence (age = 12-14; n = 256) and examined how the different manifestations of compassion related to age and sex during this age period. Dispositional…
Descriptors: Altruism, Empathy, Personality Traits, Early Adolescents
Age and Gender Differences in Motivational Manifestations of the Big Five from Age 16 to 60
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Lehmann, Regula; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Allemand, Mathias; Penke, Lars – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The present cross-sectional study investigated age and gender differences in motivational manifestations of the Big Five in a large German-speaking Internet sample (N = 19,022). Participants ranging in age from 16 to 60 years completed the Five Individual Reaction Norms Inventory (FIRNI; Denissen & Penke, 2008a), and two traditional Big Five…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Personality, Personality Development, Gender Differences
An Investigation of Measurement Invariance across Genders on the Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two
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Warne, Russell T. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2011
The Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two (OEQII) is a quantitative instrument for assessing overexcitabilities as they are described in Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration. This article uses multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to examine the measurement invariance of OEQII scores across genders. Results indicate that raw OEQII scores…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Measurement, Personality Development
Essays on Character & Opportunity
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Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2014
These essays provide richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in particular its relationship to questions of opportunity. Each one is an intellectual pemmican: sharp and to the point. Two scholars draw attention to the gendered nature of character formation (Segal and Lexmond);…
Descriptors: Essays, Values Education, Personality Development, Moral Development
Personality Development and Problem Behavior in Russian Children and Adolescents
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Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Akhmetova, Olga A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
The aim of this study was to explore child and adolescent personality in the Russian culture, addressing gender and age differences, and to examine personality and family effects on children's Internalizing and Externalizing problems. Parents of 1,640 Russian children aged 3-18 years completed the Inventory of Child Individual Differences…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Adolescents, Age Differences, Personality Development