TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality in middle childhood
T2 - A hierarchical structure and longitudinal connections with personality in late adolescence
AU - Tackett, Jennifer L.
AU - Krueger, Robert F.
AU - Iacono, William G.
AU - McGue, Matt
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by US Public Health Service Grants #AA09367 and DA 05147. This article is adapted from a dissertation by the first author submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. We would like to thank the twins and their families and the recruiting, interviewing, data management, and lab staffs of the Minnesota Twin Family Study.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Research on the structure of personality in middle childhood, while advancing, is still in the early stages of development. In this study, we employed a group of 1563 twins to elucidate the hierarchical structure of personality in middle childhood and provide connections to established personality traits in adult populations. Our results provide evidence for a higher-order structure of personality in middle childhood that maps on to recent findings in adult populations supporting hierarchical relationships among 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-factor models of personality. In addition, primary higher-order personality traits rated by parents at age 11 showed substantial predictive validity for analogous traits rated by self at age 17. We discuss our results within the context of developing a convergent hierarchical taxonomy of personality in middle childhood and the importance of multi-informant investigations.
AB - Research on the structure of personality in middle childhood, while advancing, is still in the early stages of development. In this study, we employed a group of 1563 twins to elucidate the hierarchical structure of personality in middle childhood and provide connections to established personality traits in adult populations. Our results provide evidence for a higher-order structure of personality in middle childhood that maps on to recent findings in adult populations supporting hierarchical relationships among 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-factor models of personality. In addition, primary higher-order personality traits rated by parents at age 11 showed substantial predictive validity for analogous traits rated by self at age 17. We discuss our results within the context of developing a convergent hierarchical taxonomy of personality in middle childhood and the importance of multi-informant investigations.
KW - 5-Factor model
KW - Childhood personality
KW - Personality development
KW - Personality structure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.06.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.06.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 19122851
AN - SCOPUS:56349162946
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 42
SP - 1456
EP - 1462
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 6
ER -