TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's Behavioral Styles at Age 3 Are Linked to their Adult Personality Traits at Age 26
AU - Caspi, Avshalom
AU - Harrington, Hona Lee
AU - Milne, Barry
AU - Amell, James W.
AU - Theodore, Reremoana F.
AU - Moffitt, Terrie E.
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - We observed 1,000 3-year-old children who exhibited five temperament types: Undercontrolled, Inhibited, Confident, Reserved, and Well-adjusted. Twenty-three years later, we reexamined 96% of the children as adults, using multiple methods of comprehensive personality assessment, including both self- and informant-reports. These longitudinal data provide the longest and strongest evidence to date that children's early-emerging behavioral styles can foretell their characteristic behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as adults, pointing to the foundations of the human personality in the early years of life.
AB - We observed 1,000 3-year-old children who exhibited five temperament types: Undercontrolled, Inhibited, Confident, Reserved, and Well-adjusted. Twenty-three years later, we reexamined 96% of the children as adults, using multiple methods of comprehensive personality assessment, including both self- and informant-reports. These longitudinal data provide the longest and strongest evidence to date that children's early-emerging behavioral styles can foretell their characteristic behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as adults, pointing to the foundations of the human personality in the early years of life.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-6494.7104001
DO - 10.1111/1467-6494.7104001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12901429
AN - SCOPUS:0242362162
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 71
SP - 495
EP - 514
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 4
ER -