Personality Types in Adolescence: Change and Stability and Links with Adjustment and Relationships--A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Meeus, Wim; Van de Schoot, Rens; Klimstra, Theo; Branje, Susan
Titel	Personality Types in Adolescence: Change and Stability and Links with Adjustment and Relationships--A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 4, S.1181-1195 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0023816
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Intimacy; Adolescents; Personality Change; Personality Development; Anxiety; Longitudinal Studies; Resilience (Psychology); Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Intimität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Persönlichkeitstest; Persönlichkeitsveränderung; Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Angst; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was found, in that the number of overcontrollers and undercontrollers decreased, whereas the number of resilients increased. Undercontrol, in particular, was found to peak in early-to-middle adolescence. We also found substantial stability of personality types, because 73.5% of the adolescents had the same personality type across the 5 waves. Personality change was mainly characterized by 2 transitions: overcontrol [arrow right] resiliency and undercontrol [arrow right] resiliency. The transitional analyses implied that the resilient type serves more often as the end point of personality development in adolescence than do overcontrol and undercontrol. Analyses of the personality type trajectories also revealed that the majority of adolescents who change personality type across 5 years made only 1 transition. Study 2 revealed systematic differences between resilients and overcontrollers in anxiety. Stable resilients were less anxious over time than were stable overcontrollers. Further, change from overcontrol to the resilient type was accompanied by decreases in anxiety, whereas change from the resilient type to overcontrol was accompanied by an increase in anxiety. Similarly, systematic differences between personality types were found in the formation of intimate relationships. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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