Personality and Development in Childhood: A Person-Centered Approach (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

by Hart

Daniel Hart (Editor), Robert Atkins (Editor), and Suzanne Fegley (Editor)

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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 failures
  • Explores how the stresses characteristic of poverty affect children's personality development
  • ISBN10 1405118784
  • ISBN13 9781405118781
  • Publish Date 30 June 2003
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 140
  • Language English