Personality and Development in Childhood : A Person-Centered Approach, Paperback / softback Book

Personality and Development in Childhood : A Person-Centered Approach Paperback / softback

Edited by Daniel (Rutgers University) Hart, Robert (Temple University) Atkins, Suzanne (University of Pennsylvania) Fegley

Part of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development series

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This Monograph addresses three questions: 1) How can we best describe childhood personality? 2) How is personality related to the child's successes and failures? 3) What sort of factors are related to personality development?

Uses a longitudinal analyses of thousands of children from across the United States to define the three personality types that best describe personality: resilient, over-controlled, and under-controlled. Studies the relationship between personality type and children's successes and failuresExplores how the stresses characteristic of poverty affect children's personality development

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