Personality Development

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence. 
  • A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office. 
  • A cross-domain growth analysis: externalizing and internalizing behaviors during 8 years of childhood. 
  • Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: a developmental taxonomy. 
  • Adolescent binge/purge and weight loss behaviors: associations with developmental assets. 
  • Adult outcomes of childhood bullying victimization. 
  • An appraisal of cognitive therapy. 
  • An archival prospective study of mental health and longevity. 
  • Anorexia nervosa in adolescent males: a review and case study. 
  • Antecedents of adult interpersonal functioning: effects of individual differences in age 3 temperament. 
  • Assessment of young children's social-emotional development and psychopathology: recent advances and recommendations for practice. 
  • Childhood conscientiousness and longevity: health behaviors and cause of death. 
  • Children's behavioral styles at age 3 are linked to their adult personality traits at age 26. 
  • Cognitive development: a critical component of baccalaureate nursing education. 
  • Congruence of personality and life events in depression. 
  • Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course. 
  • Delineating the maladaptive pathways of child maltreatment: a mediated moderation analysis of the roles of self-perception and social support. 
  • Development of aggression. 
  • Development of depression from preadolescence to young adulthood: emerging gender differences in a 10-year longitudinal study. 
  • Developmental antecedents of partner abuse: a prospective-longitudinal study. 
  • Developmental trajectories of proactive and reactive aggression from fifth to ninth grade. 
  • Differences in early childhood risk factors for juvenile-onset and adult-onset depression. 
  • Direct social support for young high risk children: relations with behavioral and emotional outcomes across time. 
  • Disease-prone and self-healing personalities. 
  • Distorting reality for children: body size proportions of Barbie and Ken dolls. 
  • Do comparative self-appraisals during young adulthood predict adult personality? 
  • Does physical abuse in early childhood predict substance use in adolescence and early adulthood? 
  • Family history of psychiatric disorder and low self-confidence: predictors of depressive symptoms at 12-month follow-up. 
  • Friendship as a moderating factor in the pathway between early harsh home environment and later victimization in the peer group. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Genetic and environmental processes in young children's resilience and vulnerability to socioeconomic deprivation. 
  • Hierarchical classification and the integration of self-structure in late adolescence. 
  • Homoclites revisited: the search for identification in hospitalized young adult patients. 
  • Hostile attributional biases in severely aggressive adolescents. 
  • Hostility patterns and health implications: correlates of Cook-Medley Hostility Scale scores in a national survey. 
  • Individual differences are accentuated during periods of social change: the sample case of girls at puberty. 
  • Interaction of temperamental resistance to control and restrictive parenting in the development of externalizing behavior. 
  • Intergenerational relationships in young adulthood and their life course, mental health, and personality correlates. 
  • Is there an association between lateral preference and delinquent behavior? 
  • It's not just who you're with, it's who you are: personality and relationship experiences across multiple relationships. 
  • Juvenile delinquency and attention deficit disorder: boys' developmental trajectories from age 3 to age 15. 
  • Lessons drawn from observing young peers together. 
  • Long-term relations of personality and health: dynamisms, mechanisms, tropisms. 
  • Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: follow-up at age 26 years. 
  • Marital history at midlife as a predictor of longevity: alternative explanations to the protective effect of marriage. 
  • Maternal expressed emotion predicts children's antisocial behavior problems: using monozygotic-twin differences to identify environmental effects on behavioral development. 
  • Motherhood during the teen years: a developmental perspective on risk factors for childbearing. 
  • Motives and psychodynamics of self-reported, unincarcerated rapists. 
  • Natural categories or fundamental dimensions: on carving nature at the joints and the rearticulation of psychopathology. 
  • Parental divorce: effects on individual behavior and longevity. 
  • Parental mental disorder and offspring criminal behavior: an adoption study. 
  • Patterns of change in early childhood aggressive-disruptive behavior: gender differences in predictions from early coercive and affectionate mother-child interactions. 
  • Peer status and aggression in boys' groups: developmental and contextual analyses. 
  • Personality and self-regulation: trait and information-processing perspectives. 
  • Personality development: stability and change. 
  • Personality differences predict health-risk behaviors in young adulthood: evidence from a longitudinal study. 
  • Personality in the life course. 
  • Personality traits are differentially linked to mental disorders: a multitrait-multidiagnosis study of an adolescent birth cohort. 
  • Personality traits are linked to crime among men and women: evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder in the community: an epidemiological study. 
  • Preadolescent peer status, aggression, and school adjustment as predictors of externalizing problems in adolescence. 
  • Predicting early adolescent disorder from childhood aggression and peer rejection. 
  • Predicting personality in adulthood from college MMPI scores: implications for follow-up studies in psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Predicting the counterproductive employee in a child-to-adult prospective study. 
  • Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries. 
  • Preschool psychopathology: lessons for the lifespan. 
  • Prolegomena to a model of continuity and change in behavioural development. 
  • Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity. The aging and death of the "termites". 
  • Puberty onset of gender differences in rates of depression: a developmental, epidemiologic and neuroendocrine perspective. 
  • Relational benefits of relational aggression: adaptive and maladaptive associations with adolescent friendship quality. 
  • Returning to roots: on social information processing and moral development. 
  • Review of the evidence base for treatment of childhood psychopathology: internalizing disorders. 
  • Role of child and maternal processes in the psychological adjustment of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Self-efficacy expectations among traumatized adolescents. 
  • Self-guides, autobiographical memory, and anxiety and dysphoria: toward a cognitive model of vulnerability to emotional distress. 
  • Self-regulation, rumination, and vulnerability to depression in adolescent girls. 
  • Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. 
  • Sex differences in vulnerability and maladjustment as a function of parental investment: an evolutionary approach. 
  • Shared experiences and the similarity of personalities: a longitudinal study of married couples. 
  • Short stature, growth hormone deficiency, and social anxiety. 
  • Sickle cell disease pain in children and adolescents: change in pain frequency and coping strategies over time. 
  • Social information-processing mechanisms in reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • Social-cognitive and behavioral correlates of aggression and victimization in boys' play groups. 
  • Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers. 
  • Teasing, body image, and self-esteem in a clinical sample of obese women. 
  • Temperament, recalled parenting styles, and self-regulation: testing the developmental postulates of self-discrepancy theory. 
  • Temperamental origins of child and adolescent behavior problems: from age three to age fifteen. 
  • Temperamental qualities at age three predict personality traits in young adulthood: longitudinal evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Temperamental resistance to control increases the association between sleep problems and externalizing behavior development. 
  • The "disease-prone personality". A meta-analytic view of the construct. 
  • The Stressors of Clergy Children Inventory: reliability and validity. 
  • The child is father of the man: personality continuities from childhood to adulthood. 
  • The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. 
  • The ecocultural context and child behavior problems: A qualitative analysis in rural Nepal. 
  • The effect of pregnancy on adolescent growth and development. 
  • The effects of age and sex on depression ratings in children and adolescents. 
  • The effects of childhood parental death and divorce on six-month history of anxiety disorders. 
  • The impact of trauma and disaster on young children. 
  • The importance of conduct problems and depressive symptoms in predicting adolescent substance use. 
  • The kids are alright: growth and stability in personality development from adolescence to adulthood. 
  • The moderating effects of children's fear and activity level on relations between parenting practices and childhood symptomatology. 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis. 
  • The role of biomedical and psychosocial processes in the intellectual and academic functioning of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • The role of parent stress and coping and family functioning in parent and child adjustment to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • The science of prevention. A conceptual framework and some directions for a national research program. 
  • The timing of child physical maltreatment: a cross-domain growth analysis of impact on adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems. 
  • Time-dependent changes in positively biased self-perceptions of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a developmental psychopathology perspective. 
  • Toward greater understanding of depression in deaf individuals. 
  • Two personalities, one relationship: both partners' personality traits shape the quality of their relationship. 
  • Validity of evidence-derived criteria for reactive attachment disorder: indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited types. 
  • Work experiences and personality development in young adulthood. 
  • Young children's responses to guilt displays. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society