Carving personality description at its joints: Confirmation of three replicable personality prototypes for both children and adults

2001/05/01 by Jens B. Asendorpf, Peter Borkenau, Fritz Ostendorf +2 · 6 citations
Psychology · #Personality Traits and Psychology #Personality Disorders and Psychopathology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing

paper · doi:10.1002/per.408

Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that there are three major prototypic patterns of personality description (resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled) in a series of studies including adults' self‐descriptions on the Big Five and parents' Big Five and Q‐Sort judgments of their children, using both replicated cluster analyses and replicated Q‐factor analyses. The consistency of the prototypes across ages, judges, and methods was quantitatively measured. The results confirmed the hypothesis in all studies. Personality, social relationship, and social interaction correlates of the prototypes indicated externalizing tendencies for undercontrollers and internalizing tendencies for overcontrollers for both children and adults. The studies provide strong evidence for a three‐prototype model of personality description at the highest level of analysis for both childhood and adulthood. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Citations

• Factor Comparability As A Means Of Determining The Number Of Factors And Their Rotation
• Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model.

Cited by

• The replicability and utility of three personality types
• Head‐to‐head comparison of the predictive validity of personality types and dimensions
• Beyond resilients, undercontrollers, and overcontrollers? an extension of personality prototype research
• Self–Regulation and Personality Profiles: Empirical Development, Longitudinal Stability and Predictive Ability
• Validity of Big Five personality judgments in childhood: a 9 year longitudinal study
• Resilients, Overcontrollers, and Undercontrollers: The replicability of the three personality prototypes across informants

Related

• Resilients, Overcontrollers, and Undercontrollers: The replicability of the three personality prototypes across informants
• Beyond resilients, undercontrollers, and overcontrollers? an extension of personality prototype research
• A Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character
• Linking temperament and personality traits from late childhood to adulthood by examining continuity, stability, and change.
• A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality.