Faculty Opinions recommendation of Childhood adversity and adult personality.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Carter
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Adult Personality

The relationship between childhood adversity and adult personality revealed by network analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 104254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E.M.C. Schouw ◽  
Robbert J. Verkes ◽  
Aart H. Schene ◽  
Arnt F.A. Schellekens
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Adult Personality ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Childhood Adversity and Adult Personality

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Rosenman ◽  
Bryan Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Behavioural Activation ◽  
Behavioural Inhibition ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Adult Personality

Objectives: To explore how recalled childhood adversity affects trait measures of personality in three age cohorts of an Australian adult population and to examine the effects of particular adversities on adult personality traits. Method: A total of 7485 randomly selected subjects in the age bands of 20–24, 40–44 and 60–64 years were interviewed at the outset of a longitudinal community study of psychological health in the Canberra region of Australia. In the initial interview, subjects answered 17 questions about domestic adversity and three questions on positive aspects of upbringing to age 16 years. Personality traits were measured by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Scales, Positive and Negative Affect Scales and a measure of dissocial behaviours. Results: Higher levels of childhood adversity substantially increase the risk of high neuroticism (OR = 2.6) and negative affect (OR = 2.6), less for behavioural inhibition (OR = 1.7) and for dissocial behaviour (OR = 1.7). No significant effect is seen for extraversion, psychoticism or behavioural activation. Age and gender had little effect on the pattern of risk. Maternal depression has significant and substantial independent effects on measures of neuroticism and negative affect as well as most other measures of personality. Conclusion: Childhood domestic adversity has substantial associations with clinically important aspects of personality: neuroticism and negative affect. Only small effects are seen on behavioural inhibition and dissocial behaviour, and no significant effect on extraversion and behavioural activation. These unexpected findings contradict clinical belief. Maternal psychological ill-health is pre-eminent among adversities predicting later disadvantageous traits, even for those traits that had only the slightest association with childhood adversity. Consequences of childhood adversity prevail throughout the lifespan in men and women equally. The study underlines the importance of childhood domestic adversity and especially maternal psychological ill-health as a target for preventive intervention for psychological difficulties at all ages.

Positive Adult Personality Development

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula M. Staudinger ◽  
Ute Kunzmann
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Adult Personality ◽  
Heated Debate

Abstract. Does personality stay stable after young adulthood or is there continued change throughout middle and later adulthood? For decades, this question has caused heated debate. Over the last couple of years, a consensus has emerged based on recent cross-cultural as well as longitudinal evidence. This consensus confirms that indeed there is personality change in middle and later adulthood. Many authors have labeled this change personality maturation or growth. In somewhat simplified terms the observed pattern is as follows: neuroticism declines, conscientiousness and agreeableness increase. At the same time it has been argued that this pattern of personality change is the result of coping with the developmental tasks of adulthood and, thus, increased adjustment. We would like to examine this practice of equating developmental adjustment with growth and ask how to define personality growth. To answer this question, we consult theories of personality development as well as lifespan theory.

An Anthropological Investigation of Child-Rearing Practices and Adult Personality

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. M. Whiting ◽  
Shulamith M. Gunders ◽  
Herbert Yahraes
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Adult Personality

A theoretical outlook on adult personality development: The next generation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jule Specht ◽  
Wiebke Bleidorn ◽  
Jaap J. A. Denissen ◽  
Marie Hennecke ◽  
Roos Hutteman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Adult Personality

Linking typologies of childhood adversity to adult incarceration: Findings from a nationally representative sample.

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 584-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie E. Roos ◽  
Tracie O. Afifi ◽  
Christina Gamache Martin ◽  
Robert H. Pietrzak ◽  
Jack Tsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Representative Sample ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Nationally Representative

Childhood adversity studies as an antidote to the predominance of neo-liberal thinking in the field of mental health

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-563
Author(s):  
Adam Burley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Early Adversity ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Individual

This is a personal and reflective piece written from a clinician's point of view on the influence that the developing awareness around the consequences of childhood adversity has had upon the discussions, thinking and practice across the areas in which they are working. It seeks to argue that the increased understanding and recognition of the potential impact of early adversity can not only enhance and deepen the understanding of an individual's difficulties, but can serve to inform how services respond in a way that takes account of this. It suggests that the research and literature on childhood adversity can offer a route map away from a model of mental health that focuses predominantly on the individual as the sole source of interest.

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