Observed Personality in Preschool: Associations with Current and Longitudinal Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Personality is consistently associated with psychopathology across the lifespan. However, little is known of how observed personality dimensions in preschoolers are associated with concurrent or longitudinal symptoms across development. Spectrum, vulnerability, and pathopolasty models theorize how child personality and psychopathology are related across development. The current study tests these three models using observationally coded personality dimensions in a longitudinal sample of preschoolers. A validated 'thin slice' technique was used to code observed Five Factor Model (FFM) personality dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience in a clinically enriched preschool sample oversampled for depression (N = 299). Children were fo

SUBMITTER: Gilbert KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6842663 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature