PSYO 3280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Twin, Diana Baumrind, Stress Management
14 Jan 2016
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Some individual differences can be detected shortly after babies are born. Evidence also supports that the five factors can be detected in children beginning elementary school. Little five: the test of the five-factor model in young people. The elements of the five-factor model are detectable in children: with the exception of openness to experience. Peer nomination data find little evidence of the five-factor model in adolescence. Spontaneous free descriptions usually result in at least four traits from the five-factor model being mentioned by parents. The personality traits in children and adolescents are found across cultures: the salience of certain dimensions may vary by culture, as shown by the greater emphasis on conscientiousness among chinese parents. These demensions are neuroticism, extroversion, and psychoticism: the eysenck personality questionnaire junior assess these three dimensions and includes a lie scale. Much of this research assesses the childs self-reports, instead of ratings by parents or teachers.
