Personality and development in childhood
Subtitle: a person-centered approach
By: Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins,  Suzanne Fegley ; with commentary by Richard W. Robins and Jessica L. Tracy.
Contributors: Hart, Daniel.; Atkins, Robert, M.S.; Fegley, Suzanne G.; Robins, Richard W.; Tracy, Jessica L.
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Personality development.; Developmental psychology.; Child psychology.
Description: "This monograph addresses three questions: 1) How can we best describe childhood personality? 2) How is personality related to the child's successes and failures? 3) What sort of factors are related to personality development?"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Personality types of 6-year-olds and their associations with academic achievement and behavior; title: Replication with 5-year-olds of types and their associations with achievement and behavior; title: Personality types and academic achievement; title: Stability and change in personality types; title: Personality type as a moderator of the association of head start participation to developmental outcome; title: Summary of findings and general discussion; title: Appendix A: Correlations among vectors of factor scores for seven random samples of 6-year-olds; title: Appendix B: Correlations among vectors of factor scores for seven random samples of 5-year-olds; title: Commentary: Setting an agenda for a person-centered approach to personality development / Richard W. Robins and Jessica L. Tracy.