Personality Development (Latest Articles)

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Development'

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Child development and personality disorder.

30 Aug 2008 The evidence is surprisingly strong that even early adolescent personality disorders or elevated personality disorder symptoms have a broad range of negative effects well into adulthood, for the most part comparable to or even larger than those of ...
rec_pub_18638647-child-development-personality-disorder.htm

Just another club? The distinctiveness of the relation between religious service attendance and adolescent psychosocial adjustment.

20 Aug 2008 This study used hierarchical linear modeling to compare longitudinal patterns of adolescent religious service attendance and club attendance, and to contrast the longitudinal relations between adolescent adjustment and religious service versus club ...
rec_pub_19669897-just-club-distinctiveness-relation-religious-service-attendance.htm

Neurobiology and the development of violence: common assumptions and controversies.

10 Aug 2008 This paper addresses four common assumptions and related controversies regarding neurobiological factors explaining violence: (i) scholars often assume stability of individual differences in neurobiological factors pertaining to violence, yet much ...
rec_pub_18434284-neurobiology-development-violence-common-assumptions-controversies.htm

Qualitative and quantitative aspects of commitment development in psychology students.

6 Aug 2008 We investigated the development of study- and work-related commitments in 28 psychology students during their bachelor years. Based on seven measurements of exploration and commitments (over a period of three-and-a-half years) we found the ...
rec_pub_18691749-qualitative-quantitative-aspects-commitment-development-psychology.htm

Genetic correlates of adult attachment style.

5 Aug 2008 Attachment theory attempts to explain effects of social experiences, not genes, on personality development. Most studies of the development of attachment insecurities support this emphasis on social experiences rather than genes, although there are ...
rec_pub_18687882-genetic-correlates-adult-attachment-style.htm

Individual differences in vigor and deliberation: development of two new measures from an evolutionary psychology theory of human motivation.

30 Jul 2008 Three studies (total N=403 participants; M age = 31.1 yr.; SD = 13.8) are reported on the development, psychometric properties, and convergent and discriminant validities of two individual differences dimensions of Vigor (constructive arousal and ...
rec_pub_18982957-individual-differences-vigor-deliberation-development-two-new.htm

Inclusion-exclusion of positive and negative past selves: mood congruence as information.

30 Jul 2008 The current research challenges the widespread truism that recalling a positive self necessarily increases self-esteem, whereas recalling a negative self necessarily decreases self-esteem. Four experiments demonstrate that chronically happy people ...
rec_pub_18665714-inclusion-exclusion-positive-negative-past-selves-mood-congruence.htm

Motivation, affect, and hemispheric asymmetry: power versus affiliation.

30 Jul 2008 In 4 experiments, the authors examined to what extent information related to different social needs (i.e., power vs. affiliation) is associated with hemispheric laterality. Response latencies to a lateralized dot-probe task following lateralized ...
rec_pub_18665713-motivation-affect-hemispheric-asymmetry-power-versus-affiliation.htm

Identity motives underlying desired and feared possible future selves.

26 Jul 2008 Desired and feared possible future selves are important motivators of behavior and provide a temporal context for self-evaluation. Yet little research has examined why people desire some possible selves and fear others. In two studies, we tested the ...
rec_pub_18665893-identity-motives-underlying-desired-feared-possible-future-selves.htm

Psychological and social aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting after assisted conception: a systematic review.

22 Jul 2008 BACKGROUND: It is known that infertility affects emotional well-being, satisfaction with life and self-esteem and that failed assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment is associated with diminished life satisfaction, reduced self-confidence ...
rec_pub_18653674-psychological-social-aspects-pregnancy-childbirth-early-parenting.htm

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