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[Personality development as a lifelong process and consequences for promoting personality development in advanced age].

The paper explains the fact, that personality development mainly depends on the requirements of life activity and derives possibilities for promoting development in old age. These possibilities are primarily seen in forming such life conditions and requirements of activity, which grant latitude for autonomous acting and deciding to the aged as much and as long as possible as well as encourage them to use it, thereby helping them to maintain or regain every kind of autonomy and activity still possible.

Aged↗
PubMed1991

Relationships between personality development, interpersonal perception and communication in parents of schizophrenics, psychiatric controls and normal subjects.

Employing a family interaction paradigm, the psychodynamic development of personality (Consensus Spouse-Rorschach, CSR), mutuality in interpersonal perception (Interpersonal Perception Method), and feedback mechanisms in communication (the Confirmation-Disconfirmation Coding System) were investigated. The subjects were 66 parents (33 couples) whose offspring were as follows: 12 schizophrenics (RDC, DSM-III, DSM-III-R), 12 with other mental disorders, and 9 subjects with no mental disorder. Communication was observed in 2 situations, using CSR and the Colour Conflict Method. Feedback mechanisms in parent communication, previously found to be associated with offspring mental disorder, were associated both with lack of mutuality in interpersonal perception and low personality development. Lack of mutuality was associated with low parent personality development. The results emphasize the usefulness of monitoring both parent personality development (family structure), mutuality in interpersonal perception (family phenomenology), and communication (family behaviour) when assessing interaction in families of patients with severe mental disorder. They also point to a need for theoretical integration between the different concepts of family interaction of different clinical and theoretical traditions.

Communication↗
PubMed1989

Personality development and the dually diagnosed person.

Researchers in mental retardation have traditionally focused on cognitive aspects of the disorder and ignored social and personality factors. One consequence is that little attention has been paid to the mental health of mentally retarded persons. The argument is made that the personalities of mentally retarded persons are affected by the same factors that impact upon the personalities of nonretarded persons. The life experiences of mentally retarded persons, however have been shown to lead to personalities that are often characterized by overdependency on others, low aspiration levels, and outerdirected problem-solving styles. These personality characteristics are implicated in the high rate of mental unhealth in mentally retarded persons. Finally, the value of extending the developmental approach to the study of psychiatric problems in mentally retarded persons is discussed.

Child↗
PubMed1976

[Effect of diabetes mellitus on a personality development disorder - and its influence on the course of the disease].

Is there an influence of diabetes mellitus on a neurotic development of personality - that is the question of the present research. And specially: Are there special problems in interaction with the patient, who suffers on diabetes mellitus? We strictly have to make a distinction between the somato-psychic and psycho-somatic approach: The influence of diabetes mellitus in development of personality means, that there is an influence of somatic factors on the psyche. The influence of an neurotic personality on formation and development of diabetes mellitus means, that there is an influence of psychological factors on the soma. This difference often will be ignored. Oralic needs also can be the consequence of somatic disorders, and do not have to be originate exclusive from childhood - even if psychoanalytic oriented colleagues will contest this fact.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

[Evaluation of the classification of pathological personality development of exogenous organic origin by the main component method].

The author has tested the developed classification of the pathological personality development of the exogenic-organic genesis using the method of main components. On the basis of the mathematical processing of clinical symptomatology in 348 patients with various types of the pathological development (asthenic, hysteriform, hypochondriac, explosive) the author has defined three main components: "excitability", "inhibition" and "hypochondriac anger". An analysis of the distributional pattern of types of the pathological personality development in orthogonal planes of three main components has made it possible to establish the adequacy of the proposed classification of the internal structure of the disease and identify the variants appearing as "unifying" and "distinguishing" borderlines between individual types.

Borderline Personality Disorder↗
PubMed1990

Letters from V: adolescent personality development in sociohistorical context.

Systematic content analysis of personal documents is used to assess the course of personality development in one adolescent female exposed to traumatic historical and personal events, as well as more normative life changes. Seventy-one letters written by a young girl to her former teacher over a 9-year period comprise the data for this study. Our analyses assess the normal developmental processes of preoccupation with identity formation and the establishment of intimate relationships, as well as responses to life changes (emigration, marriage, pregnancy). Overall, results suggest that despite serious challenges and losses, this individual experienced normal personality development throughout her trying adolescence. In addition, particular life events affected the course of that development. Factors which may have facilitated her resilience are discussed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1968

[Follow-up study of school age children having received inpatient treatment for infant atrophy, with regard to their personality development and social adjustment].

In the personality development controlled by complicated and numerous influences we searched for those characteristics which can be made responsible for infantile atrophy. In comparison with children of average development and of the same age we found that in addition to a somatic retardation the intellectual efficiency is impaired in 60 percent of the cases; we were also able to find disorders of the emotional circle. All of these result in the disharmony of personality. In the capacities for adaptation the narrow, familial, environmental influences appear to be of importance in that in contrast to children showing no somatic damages whatsoever these influences exert a greater effect. Those children, therefore, who had been suffering from atrophy are somatically determined and show slight adaptive difficulties due to environmental difficulties.

Attention↗
PubMed1986

[Psychogenic pathologic personality development in advanced age].

A study of 51 patients with psychogenic abnormalities developed in old age has shown that the development of such disorders is a comparatively frequent outcome of neuroses and reactive psychoses with the onset in the presenile period and only as an exception takes place in patients with the onset of psychogenic disturbances in old age. Depressive development has proved most typical for advanced age. Such manifestations as chronic subdepression, diffuse hypochondria, egocentrism and rent orientations are universal for all clinical variants of senile pathological development of personality. According to a regression analysis the development of psychogenic disturbances in the second half of life is facilitated by the objective significance and persistence of traumatic situations, a low professional level of patients and a number of other socio-psychological and biological characteristics of the person.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1989

Conceptual issues in studying continuity and discontinuity in personality development across life.

In this article, we argue that the continuity-discontinuity of personality development is not just an empirical issue, but is also a metatheoretical and theoretical issue. Stances taken in regard to one of three metatheories (or models)--the organismic, the mechanistic, and the developmental contextual--determine theoretical ideas about (a) the units of analysis thought to be relevant to personality development; (b) the processes believed to govern these units; and (c) whether changes in these units are continuous or discontinuous. Theories associated with the models also differ in regard to whether they describe and/or explain intra-individual personality changes as quantitatively or qualitatively continuous or discontinuous. Developmental contextual theories seek to identify the organismic and contextual conditions under which any instance of continuity-discontinuity occurs. These conditions involve both nomothetic and idiographic processes. Organism-context relations must be studied longitudinally in order to understand how these processes function across life.

Biological Evolution↗
PubMed1989

Adolescent personality development: three phases, three courses and varying turmoil. Findings from the Toronto Adolescent Longitudinal Study.

The Toronto Adolescent Longitudinal Study was launched in 1977 to examine personality development in a non-clinical sample of children from ages ten through 19 over an eight year period. Following a description of their conceptualized model of personality and of the nature of the study, the authors summarize their findings which suggest new perspectives in three areas of adolescent personality development: 1) the subphases of adolescence, 2) the routes of passage through which adolescents proceed, and 3) adolescent turmoil.

Adolescent↗