A Potential Link between Early Language Developmental Milestones and Personality Traits in Adulthood

Autor/inn/en	Flensborg-Madsen, Trine; Wimmelmann, Cathrine Lawaetz; Mortensen, Erik Lykke
Titel	A Potential Link between Early Language Developmental Milestones and Personality Traits in Adulthood
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44 (2020) 5, S.383-392 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Flensborg-Madsen, Trine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025419889185
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Personality Traits; Personality Measures; Language Acquisition; Neurosis; Age Differences; Adults; Mothers; Infants; Toddlers; Recordkeeping; Extraversion Introversion; Child Development; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; Smoking; Prenatal Influences; Socioeconomic Status; Parent Child Relationship; Denmark; NEO Five Factor Inventory; Eysenck Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Neurose; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Leistungsnachweis; Kindesentwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland; Rauchen; Pränataler Einfluss; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Dänemark
Abstract	Background: Although plausible links between language development and personality have been suggested, longitudinal studies of these associations into adulthood have not been conducted. Aim: To investigate whether children's age at attaining language milestones is associated with later adult personality. Methods: Mothers' of 8,400 children from the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort recorded six language milestones during the child's first 3 years of life. Information on at least one language milestone was available for two subsamples with adult follow-up information on personality: The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was available for 691 individuals with a mean age of 27.5 years and The NEO Five-Factor Inventory was available for 902 individuals with a mean age of 50.0 years. Results: Faster attainment of language milestones was associated with lower neuroticism in young adulthood and with higher extraversion and openness to experience in midlife. A total of 1.9% of the variance in neuroticism, 2.5% of the variance in extraversion, and 1.6% of the variance in openness to experience was explained by language milestones. Conclusion: Only a modest part of variance in personality traits was explained by language milestones. However, the study adds to the literature on potential consequences of the timing of language development and suggests a link between language milestones and personality in adulthood. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01