Children's behavioral styles at age 3 are linked to their adult personality traits at age 26 |
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Authors: | Caspi Avshalom Harrington HonaLee Milne Barry Amell James W Theodore Reremoana F Moffitt Terrie E |
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Affiliation: | Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, England. |
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Abstract: | We observed 1,000 3-year-old children who exhibited five temperament types: Undercontrolled, Inhibited, Confident, Reserved, and Well-adjusted. Twenty-three years later, we reexamined 96% of the children as adults, using multiple methods of comprehensive personality assessment, including both self- and informant-reports. These longitudinal data provide the longest and strongest evidence to date that children's early-emerging behavioral styles can foretell their characteristic behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as adults, pointing to the foundations of the human personality in the early years of life. |
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