Using a Thin Slice Coding Approach to Assess Preschool Personality Dimensions.

ABSTRACT: A large literature assessing personality across the lifespan has used the Big Five as an organizing framework, with evidence that variation along different dimensions predicts aspects of psychopathology. Parent reports indicate that these dimensions emerge as early as preschool, but there is a need for objective, observational measures of personality in young children, as parent report can be confounded by the parents' own personality and psychopathology. The current study observationally coded personality dimensions in a clinically enriched sample of preschoolers. A heterogeneous group of preschoolers oversampled for depression (N = 299) completed 1-8 structured observational tasks with an experimenter. Big Five personality dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousne

SUBMITTER: Whalen DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398835 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature