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Relationship between early child temperament and adult personality: Preliminary results from forty years lasting study
Blatný, Marek ; Jelínek, Martin ; Osecká, Terezie
The study deals with the prediction of adult personality from behaviors observed in the nursling and toddler stages. The sample consisted of 56 participants (22 men and 34 women aged from 38 to 42 years) who had taken part in the longitudinal research of children and agreed to participate in the follow-up study of adults. For description of child behavior the set of 34 rating scales was used during each testing session. Factor analysis with mean scores of rating scales for the age of 9 to 30 months yielded 3 factors: positive affectivity, negative affectivity, and disinhibition. Child positive affectivity is connected to adult extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, and even predicts life satisfaction. Child negative affectivity is linked just with adult neuroticism. Disinhition is predictor of extraversion, conscientiousness and generalized self-efficacy. The findings support assumption that innate qualities provide matrix for formation of social cognitive components of personality
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