Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Age and gender differences in personality traits from early childhood through adolescence. / Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Kornienko, Olga S.
In: Journal of Personality, Vol. 89, No. 5, 10.2021, p. 933-950.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
}
TY - JOUR
T1 - Age and gender differences in personality traits from early childhood through adolescence
AU - Slobodskaya, Helena R.
AU - Kornienko, Olga S.
N1 - Funding Information: Support for this research was provided by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant # 16‐06‐00034 (data collection), the Russian Science Foundation grant # 16‐18‐00003 (data analyses), and budgetary funding for basic research theme No. AAAA‐A16‐116021010228‐0 (preparation of this manuscript). We thank the participants of the study and the colleagues. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Objective: Most research on personality development has employed self-report questionnaires and concerned individuals older than 10 years. This is the first study to examine mean-level age differences in personality traits from early childhood to late adolescence in the non-Western cultural context. Method: Personality was measured in two community samples of parent reports of 2–18-year-old children (N = 4,330) and self-reports of 10–19-year-old adolescents (N = 4,663) from Russia by the Inventory of Child Individual Differences-Short version (ICID-S) at the three levels of the hierarchy, the two higher order traits, the Big Five, and lower order traits. Results: Across childhood, the Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism traits increased, and the Extraversion and Openness traits decreased. In adolescence, parent-reported Conscientiousness traits increased and Neuroticism traits decreased, whereas youth-rated Alpha and Agreeableness decreased in middle adolescence. There were small gender differences in trait levels and age trends. Parents and youths did not agree on gender differences in age trends for Neuroticism and Extraversion. Conclusion: The findings support personality maturation from early childhood to late adolescence, with the exception of increasing Neuroticism across childhood, and provide some evidence for the disruption in personality maturation in adolescence. Parents and adolescents may have different perspectives on personality development.
AB - Objective: Most research on personality development has employed self-report questionnaires and concerned individuals older than 10 years. This is the first study to examine mean-level age differences in personality traits from early childhood to late adolescence in the non-Western cultural context. Method: Personality was measured in two community samples of parent reports of 2–18-year-old children (N = 4,330) and self-reports of 10–19-year-old adolescents (N = 4,663) from Russia by the Inventory of Child Individual Differences-Short version (ICID-S) at the three levels of the hierarchy, the two higher order traits, the Big Five, and lower order traits. Results: Across childhood, the Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism traits increased, and the Extraversion and Openness traits decreased. In adolescence, parent-reported Conscientiousness traits increased and Neuroticism traits decreased, whereas youth-rated Alpha and Agreeableness decreased in middle adolescence. There were small gender differences in trait levels and age trends. Parents and youths did not agree on gender differences in age trends for Neuroticism and Extraversion. Conclusion: The findings support personality maturation from early childhood to late adolescence, with the exception of increasing Neuroticism across childhood, and provide some evidence for the disruption in personality maturation in adolescence. Parents and adolescents may have different perspectives on personality development.
KW - adolescence
KW - childhood
KW - gender differences
KW - mean-level age differences
KW - personality development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101807152&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jopy.12624
DO - 10.1111/jopy.12624
M3 - Article
C2 - 33577083
AN - SCOPUS:85101807152
VL - 89
SP - 933
EP - 950
JO - Journal of Personality
JF - Journal of Personality
SN - 0022-3506
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 28004954