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PubMed1977

Persistent themes: a naturalistic study of personality development in the family.

This pilot longitudinal study of normal children and their families examines the associations noted between behaviors appearing in early childhood and concerns expressed by the same youngster fifteen years later. These concerns were seen to be related to continuing transactions around a particular issue within the family system. A case description of the evolution of the particular patterns of one of the family systems studied and the details of their recurring negotiations includes an examination of two subsystems of the family unit: the mother-infant pair and the parenting couple. The impact of this family system's struggle upon the developing youngster and her personality as a late adolescent is discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

[Pathologic hypochondriacal personality development (conditions of formation, clinical variants, type of course)].

The paper deals with some results of a complex somato-psycho-neurological study of 51 patients with a pathological hypochondriacal personality development which led to a stable restriction or a complete loss of working capacity. The author indicates a complex pathogenesis of this disorder: a low level of socio-working adaptation and psychopathic traits in the premorbid personality; psycho-traumatizing situation due to an underestimation by the physicians of the severity of the somato-neurological disorder which in some cases is supplemented by an unfavourable family situation.

Humans↗
PubMed1976

[Interaction of external and internal factors in the manifestations and formation of psychopathies and pathological personality development].

The authors substantiate the concept that the material and pathophysiological substrate of psychopathy is the pathological variant of the highest nervous activity type, on the basis of which psychopathy appears and begins to form. They attempt to answer some questions concerning the correlation between exogenous and endogenous origins of psychopathy. A delineation between psychopathy and normal variants on the one hand and accentuated personalities and pathocharacterological personality development on the other one is made.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗
PubMed1982

Pilot study: effective health and personal development. An experiment in school education.

This paper describes an experimental school-based health education and personal development programme conducted jointly by the Health Commission and Department of Education in northern Sydney, New South Wales. We evaluated the programme after it had been taught for five school terms, by adopting a control/experimental group design based on multiple choice questionnaires. We recorded large and significant gains in the health status of the secondary students from the experimental schools compared with the control students. Notable successes were in the areas of cigarette smoking (reductions as high as 13%), alcohol consumption (reductions of up to 12%) and exercise (increase of 17.5%). The long-term effectiveness of such programmes may depend on support from the medical profession.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Personality development in the evolutionary perspective.

A relationship between personality processes and evolution can be seen when behaviors associated with sexual maturation, mating, and parenting are examined. This article stipulates the types of proximal cues implicated in the shaping of personality variables that become important in the development of the individual's reproductive behavior.

Biological Evolution↗
PubMed1990

Personality development in traditional Maori society and the impact of modernization.

This paper is an attempt to integrate the available research, clinical data and literary information concerning the developmental experiences of the New Zealand Maori. The Maori developmental pattern in the traditional society is compared with that of the Caucasian, mostly Anglo-Saxon, New Zealander (Pakeha), highlighting the contrasting elements while at the same time accommodating considerable overlap between the two postulated developmental patterns. The Maori personality development is seen as being characterized by an indulgent and permissive infancy, a withdrawal of this succorance during childhood, which is characterized by prominent peer-orientation, and a reintegration into adult society during adolescence with gradual maturation of social roles subsequently. The disruption of this pattern as a result of urbanization and Westernization is discussed, along with its adverse consequences. The recent initiatives by the Maori community to preserve the old traditions take the developmental issues into consideration, and although it is too early to judge their success or otherwise, they look quite promising.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

A factorial study of personal development of unmarried mothers, college, alcoholic, and schizophrenic populations.

Reported the results of a factor analytic study of the Personal Development Study (PDS). The PDS was administered for research purposes to four diagnostic groups, which included 89 institutionalized alcoholics, 336 unmarried mothers, 159 college students, and 388 chronic schizophrenics. A principal component factor analysis with Varimax rotation performed on the combined populations (N = 972) yielded five main factors labeled as projection, optimism-responsibility, reaction and symptom formation, repressive-compulsive, and intropunitiveness-guilt. Analysis of base rates of responding to the individual items revealed that the four populations ranged along a continuum, with the normals at one extreme and the institutionalized schizophrenics at the other extreme of greater pathological responding.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

[The characteristics of pathological personality development in deaf children].

Overall 100 children with congenital deafness were examined to reveal an unusual defect of the emotional and personality sphere. Certain epileptoid characteristic traits were coupled with the underdevelopment of emotional memory and productive imagination. Instability of effective conditions gave rise to the occurrence of rudimentary neurotic disorders in children with congenital and early acquired deafness.

Affect↗