Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from July 2005

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from July 2005

Personality in children.
July 1, 2005... This special issue is about the importance of personality in children. The articles focus on areas that are increasingly being investigated which highlight how personality is related to important developmental adjustment patterns. Examples of...

Adolescent personality types and subtypes and their psychosocial adjustment.
July 1, 2005... Recent studies have suggested the existence of three personality types: resilients, overcontrollers, and undercontrollers. In this article, we searched for subtypes within each of the three main personality types. Using cluster analysis on the...

The two faces of temptation: differing motives for self-control.
July 1, 2005... Self-regulation is critical to social and personality development in all cultures. Self-regulation may have developmental origins in temperament, yet it also interacts with socialization processes. This research specifically probes children's...

Temperament factors as longitudinal predictors of young adult personality.
July 1, 2005... While there is a general consensus that temperament forms the enduring, biologically based foundation of personality and that this biological basis should imply some continuity within the individual across time, there is a limited literature...

Parent and child personality traits and children's externalizing problem behavior from age 4 to 9 years: a cohort-sequential latent growth curve analysis.
July 1, 2005... Cohort-sequential latent growth modeling was used to analyze longitudinal data for children's externalizing behavior from four overlapping age cohorts (4, 5, 6, and 7 years at first assessment) measured at three annual time points. The data...

Blessings, banes, and possibilities in the study of childhood personality.
July 1, 2005... In this commentary I make three points. First, the four articles presented in this special issue are critical examples of the viability and importance of the idea of childhood personality. Second, I identify several concerns, including the...

An emerging developmental science of personality: current progress and future prospects.
July 1, 2005... The articles in this special issue illustrate four of the major questions currently being addressed in personality development research: What childhood traits are the antecedents of adult personality? How are children's personalities manifest...