Personality In Early Adolescence Research Articles

Meaning formations of the personality of high school students living in various conditions of the new Russian reality

Introduction. Meaning formations are the main constitutive characteristics of a personality in early adolescence; they determine the dominant tendencies of its development, activity, attitude towards the world, other people and oneself. Today, the issue of meaning formations in young people in various socio-economic and cultural-historical conditions is becoming urgent. The research aims to analyze certain types and properties of meaning formations (meaningful orientations in life, personal meanings, meaning of life) of Altai and Lugansk schoolchildren. Research methods. The study was carried out within the project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Education and the Russian Movement of Children and Youth ‘University Shifts’. The sample consisted of 320 people studying in Grades 10-11 (secondary school) in Altai Krai and Lugansk People's Republic. Life meaning orientations, types and properties of life meanings, and a life meaning crisis were diagnosed. The following methods were used: ‘Test of Life Meaning Orientations’ by D. A. Leontyev, ‘System of Life Meanings’ by V. Yu. Kotlyakov, ‘Questionnaire of Life Meaning Crisis’ by K. V. Karpinsky, and questionnaire ‘On the Meaning of Life’ by V. E. Chudnovsky. Methods of mathematical and statistical analysis were Mann-Whitney U test for two independent samples, Spearman's correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Research results. The lack of meaningfulness of life among Altai (19%) and Lugansk (49%) high school students is associated with weak temporal localization of meanings in relation to the future and present, and with insufficient internal localization of control (21% and 2%). The past primarily acts as a source of meaning generation. The lack of harmony in meaning formations is expressed in a meaning crisis in high school students of both research groups of a moderate (33% and 36%) and high degree (44% and 45%). The meaning formations of the personality of Altai high school students are characterized by the dominance of existential (38%) and hedonistic meanings (35%) with a relatively even distribution of types of meanings according to their orientation. For Lugansk schoolchildren, the leading ones were status meanings (39%), communicative meanings (34%) and self-realization meanings (32%). According to the orientation criterion, egocentric meanings dominate (57%). Conclusion. Specific properties of semantic formations (localization, harmony, and hierarchy) among Altai and Lugansk high school students were revealed, and differences were found in the hierarchical structure of life meanings and in predictors of meaningfulness of life and life meaning crisis. The results of the study can help organize psychological and pedagogical support for high school students experiencing life changes.

Стан розвитку мотивації до національного самоствердження особистості в ранньому юнацькому віці

Стан розвитку мотивації до національного самоствердження особистості в ранньому юнацькому віці

Early childhood social responsiveness predicts the general factor of personality in early adolescence

AbstractPositively valenced personality traits are positively correlated, forming a general factor of personality or GFP. A leading interpretation of the GFP is that it reflects social effectiveness. Accordingly, the GFP has been associated with positive social outcomes in adolescence. Yet little is known about its developmental origins. Given that the GFP is partially heritable, it was hypothesized that childhood social engagement would predict the GFP in early adolescence. Archived data from the Colorado Adoption Project were used to test this hypothesis. Using combinations of self and other ratings of personality, and adopting a range of different statistical techniques, confirmed that responsiveness to and fear of (inversely) strangers during the first 4 years of age predicted the GFP at age 12. Future research examining the possible developmental origins of the GFP is prescribed.Highlights Can the general factor of personality be predicted by early childhood temperament? Sociability toward strangers in the first four years was associated with the general factor of personality in early adolescence. The results point to the foundations of the general factor of personality.

Assessing the Universal Structure of Personality in Early Adolescence

The structure and psychometric characteristics of the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), a more readable version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), are examined and compared with NEO-PI-R characteristics using data from college student observer ratings of 5,109 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from 24 cultures. Replacement items in the PI-3 showed on average stronger item-total correlations and slightly improved facet reliabilities compared with the NEO-PI-R in both English- and non-English-speaking samples. NEO-PI-3 replacement items did not substantially affect scale means compared with the original scales. Analyses across and within cultures confirmed the intended factor structure of both versions when used to describe young adolescents. The authors discuss implications of these cross-cultural findings for the advancement of studies in adolescence and personality development across the lifespan.

Assessing personality in early adolescence through self-report and other-ratings a multitrait-multimethod analysis of the BFQ-C

The main purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the Big Five Questionnaire – Children construct validity by means of a multitrait-multimethod study among junior high school preadolescents from 13 to 14 years old. Self-report, teacher and parent ratings were gathered. Confirmatory Factor Analyses were performed to study convergent and discriminant validity. The so-called Correlated Uniquenesses model resulted in an adequate fit to the empirical data. Convergent validity was supported for all factors, especially between preadolescents and their parents. Discriminant validity is achieved only in a “weak” sense since the high correlation between Intellect/Openness and Conscientiousness. Furthermore results indicate that method effect is not negligible for all raters and all traits.

Longitudinally Foretelling Drug Use in the Late Twenties: Adolescent Personality and Social-Environmental Antecedents

This research focuses on the interrelation of the parent-child attachment, unconventionality, friends' drug use, and the young adult's use of drugs. Data were collected from participants at 4 points in time: early adolescence, late adolescence, early 20s, and late 20s. Data were collected from mothers at the 3 points in time that corresponded with the first 3 collections of data from their children. Both the youths and their mothers were individually interviewed. The findings indicated that the effect of parent-child mutual attachment was mediated through early adolescent personality attributes of greater responsibility, less rebelliousness, and intolerance of deviance. These non-drug-prone personality and behavioral attitudes, in turn, insulated the young adult from affiliating with drug-using peers, and these attitudes were related to less drug use in the early 20s and ultimately in the late 20s. The results suggest that interventions focused on enhancing parent-child mutual attachment should result in a reduction of the risk factors conducive to drug use during the late 20s. The fact that these findings cover a decade and a half, from early adolescence to the late 20s, underscores the significance of placing drug use in a perspective that includes familial and behavioral aspects.

In Search of Grand Theory

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The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys

The California Child Q-set (CCQ) was used to explore the structure of personality in early adolescence and to develop scales to measure the "Big Five" dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Mothers provided Q-sorts of 350 ethnically diverse boys between 12 and 13 years old. Analyses of the construct validity of the scales provided a nomological network relating the Big Five to theoretically and socially important criterion variables, such as juvenile delinquency, Externalizing and Internalizing disorders of childhood psychopathology, school performance, IQ, SES, and race. These effects were obtained using diverse methods, including self-reports from the boys, ratings by their mothers and their teachers, and objective-test data. In addition to the Big Five, analyses also suggested 2 possibly age-specific dimensions of personality in early adolescence. Discussion is focused on the changing manifestations of personality traits throughout development.