Personality Development

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Autonomy reconfigured: incorporating the role of the unconscious.

The principle of respect for autonomy has served as a pillar of American bioethics. Through its application in response to physician paternalism and as the basis for informed consent, it has attained preeminent status in the discipline. New challenges in ...
Richard W Homan (Perspect Biol Med, 2003WINTER)
autonomy-reconfigured-incorporating-role-unconscious.asp

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Social desirability, defense styles, and the Childrens Role Inventory scale.

This investigation was designed to answer several research questions. First, using each participants dominant score to place that individual into one of the four Childrens Role Inventory categories, what would be the distribution of college students ...
Daniel Lee Randolph, Christopher E Anderson, Penni L Smith, Molly A Shipley-Clark (Psychol Rep, 200306)
social-desirability-defense-styles-children-s-role-inventory-scale.asp

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Perceived parental control in childhood and sexual preferences of adult offspring.

To assess the relation between perceived parental control during childhood and sexual preferences of offspring during adulthood, 80 adult offspring of heterosexual orientation reported significantly lower parental control during childhood than 7 adult ...
Abdul Khaleque (Psychol Rep, 200306)
perceived-parental-control-childhood-sexual-preferences-adult.asp

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Behavioral inhibition and disinhibition as hypothesized precursors to psychopathology: implications for pediatric bipolar disorder.

Attention has been devoted over the past two decades to the identification of temperamental risk factors for child psychopathology. These qualities, evident in toddlerhood or earlier, have the advantage of being measurable in standardized laboratory ...
Dina R Hirshfeld-Becker, Joseph Biederman, Sara Calltharp, Eliza D Rosenbaum, Stephen V Faraone, Jerrold F Rosenbaum (Biol Psychiatry, 200306)
behavioral-inhibition-disinhibition-hypothesized-precursors.asp

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Precursors, consequences and implications for stability and change in pre-adolescent antisocial behaviors.

Although much of the evidence stresses the stability of dysfunctional behavior throughout the life cycle, other evidence suggests that stability of antisocial behavior is a matter of degree. In this work we determine the degree of stability of such ...
David J Pevalin, Terrance J Wade, Augustine Brannigan (Prev Sci, 200306)
precursors-consequences-implications-stability-change-pre-adolescent.asp

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Application of the five-factor model of personality to intergenerational perception.

The perception held by respondents in a full range of age groups (young, middle-aged, and old) toward a full range of target age groups (young, middle-aged, and old) was studied in a multidimensional way. The five-factor model of personality was chosen ...
Valérie Igier, Etíenne Mullet (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200305)
application-five-factor-model-personality-intergenerational-perception.asp

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Modeling intraindividual change in personality traits: findings from the normative aging study.

To advance an intraindividual life-span approach to the issue of stability and change, we studied personality trait trajectories in adulthood. Growth curves for extraversion and neuroticism were estimated for over 1600 men (initially aged 43-91) in the ...
Daniel K Mroczek, Avron Spiro (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200305)
modeling-intraindividual-change-personality-traits-findings-normative.asp

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On being lonely: fear of ones own aggression as an impediment to intimacy.

This paper considers loneliness from the point of view of compromise formation and the development of fantasy as a means of defending against painful affect. Our idea is that at least one strand of loneliness derives from longing for an ideal object with ...
Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira (Psychoanal Q, 200304)
lonely-fear-one-s-own-aggression-impediment-intimacy.asp

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A new model for conceptualizing insightfulness in the psychoanalysis of young children.

Traditional definitions of insight fail to take into account the cognitive and developmental limitations of young analysands, who lack the capacity to mentalize. It is suggested that insightfulness be redefined as promoting mentalization in young ...
Alan Sugarman (Psychoanal Q, 200304)
new-model-conceptualizing-insightfulness-psychoanalysis-young-children.asp

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Nightmares and dissociative experiences: the key role of childhood traumatic events.

In order to examine the co-occurrence of nightmares with dissociative experiences in the adolescent population and to demonstrate the impact of childhood traumatic events in this association, 292 undergraduate students were interviewed for childhood ...
Mehmet Yucel Agargun, Hayrettin Kara, Omer Akil Ozer, Yavuz Selvi, Umit Kiran, Songül Kiran (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 200304)
nightmares-dissociative-experiences-key-role-childhood-traumatic.asp