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PubMed1980

Personality development and familial dysautonomia.

The study sought to establish baselines for personality and frequency of psychopathology in familial dysautonomia (FD). Fifty FD patients, aged 6 to 28 years, served as subjects. FD subjects in all age ranges manifest neurotic patterns, but show no greater incidence of more severe pathology than is found in the general population. the arrested psychologic development seen in FD is described, together with the phenomenon of periodic lapses in judgment. The organic impairment of cognitive functions is discussed. Recommendations for treatment are proposed.

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PubMed1991

Sex differences in the course of personality development: a meta-analysis.

Size and stability of sex differences in personality growth throughout adolescence and adulthood are examined. Studies using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test of ego development served as the primary source data. Sixty-five studies (encompassing more than 9,000 Ss) generated 113 independent effect sizes. Sex differences in ego development were moderately large among junior and senior high-school students (female advantage), declined significantly among college-age adults, and disappeared entirely among older men and women. Sex differences were relatively stable during early and middle adolescence. The greater maturity displayed by adolescent girls is not an artifact of superior verbal abilities. Sex differences in ego development were more than twice the magnitude of differences in vocabulary skills (Hyde & Linn, 1988). The present findings, together with findings from reviews of sex differences in moral judgment, aggression, and empathy, suggest that adolescent girls achieve developmental milestones earlier than boys, a difference that declines with age.

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PubMed1993

Personality development across the adult life span: subjective conceptions vs cross-sectional contrasts.

This research examined possible contributions of subjective conceptions about development to the study of long-term personality stability and change. Young, middle-aged, and old adult subjects rated 100 trait-descriptive adjectives with respect to perceived stability and change across seven decades of adulthood, their desirability, self-descriptiveness, and personal controllability. Subjective conceptions indicated growth during early and middle adulthood, followed by decline in old age. These conceptions were optimistic. They involved more growth than decline, and desirable traits were seen as more descriptive of self and more controllable than were undesirable traits. Older subjects were more optimistic about late-life development than were young or middle-aged subjects. In contrast, cross-sectional comparisons of self-descriptions indicated stability. Potential threats to the validity of both approaches are discussed, and it is concluded that the use of both measurement procedures will be beneficial for research on personality stability and change.

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