TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality profiles and adolescents’ maladjustment
T2 - A longitudinal study
AU - Favini, Ainzara
AU - Gerbino, Maria
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Lunetti, Carolina
AU - Thartori, Eriona
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation to Albert Bandura, from the Italian Ministry of Education University and Research (COFIN: 1998), from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” to Gian Vittorio Caprara. We are extremely grateful to Guido Alessandri, and Antonio Zuffianò for their helpful technical advice and support. We would like to thank also the editor and reviewers for their valuable suggestions.
Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation to Albert Bandura, from the Italian Ministry of Education University and Research (COFIN: 1998), from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” to Gian Vittorio Caprara . We are extremely grateful to Guido Alessandri, and Antonio Zuffianò, for their helpful technical advice and support. We would like to thank also the editor and reviewers for their valuable suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/7/15
Y1 - 2018/7/15
N2 - During adolescence, some personality characteristics may represent vulnerabilities to adolescents’ adjustment. Adopting a person-centered approach, the aims of this study were (a) to examine the relations of early adolescents’ personality profiles to internalizing (i.e., anxious/depressed, withdrawal, and somatic complaints) and externalizing (i.e., aggressive and rule breaking behavior) problems three years later, and (b) to explore the moderating role of gender in these relations. Six hundred fifteen Italian preadolescents (mean age = 12.5) completed the Big Five Questionnaire for Children at age 12 and the Youth Self-Report at age 12 and three years later. Four personality types were identified using Latent Profile Analysis: Resilient, Moderate, Undercontrolled and Vulnerable. In multiple-group path analysis, after controlling for the stability of the outcomes, for both genders, Resilient reported low levels of externalizing problems three years later, whereas Vulnerable youths reported high levels of internalizing problems. Finally, Undercontrolled reported high levels of subsequent externalizing problems. The present study corroborated the unique and specific prediction by personality profiles of different types of subsequent maladjustment.
AB - During adolescence, some personality characteristics may represent vulnerabilities to adolescents’ adjustment. Adopting a person-centered approach, the aims of this study were (a) to examine the relations of early adolescents’ personality profiles to internalizing (i.e., anxious/depressed, withdrawal, and somatic complaints) and externalizing (i.e., aggressive and rule breaking behavior) problems three years later, and (b) to explore the moderating role of gender in these relations. Six hundred fifteen Italian preadolescents (mean age = 12.5) completed the Big Five Questionnaire for Children at age 12 and the Youth Self-Report at age 12 and three years later. Four personality types were identified using Latent Profile Analysis: Resilient, Moderate, Undercontrolled and Vulnerable. In multiple-group path analysis, after controlling for the stability of the outcomes, for both genders, Resilient reported low levels of externalizing problems three years later, whereas Vulnerable youths reported high levels of internalizing problems. Finally, Undercontrolled reported high levels of subsequent externalizing problems. The present study corroborated the unique and specific prediction by personality profiles of different types of subsequent maladjustment.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Externalizing problems
KW - Internalizing problems
KW - Personality profiles
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.016
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043784096
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 129
SP - 119
EP - 125
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -