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Low self-esteem is related to aggression, antisocial behavior, and delinquencyM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psycholgy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Psychol Sci 16:328-35. 2005..Discussion focuses on clarifying the relations among self-esteem, narcissism, and externalizing problems...- Genes, personality, and attachment in adults: a multivariate behavioral genetic analysisM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:3-16. 2008.... - Psychometric characteristics and clinical correlates of NEO-PI-R fearless dominance and impulsive antisociality in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders StudyEdward A Witt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 231Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Assess 22:559-68. 2010..Moreover, these measures demonstrated an appreciable degree of incremental validity over the NEO-PI-R profile-rating approach... - Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: a three-wave longitudinal studyChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:545-56. 2011..Overall, these genetically informed results support a life-course perspective on personality development during the transition to adulthood... - Does marriage inhibit antisocial behavior?: An examination of selection vs causation via a longitudinal twin designS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1309-15. 2010..Although often interpreted as a causal association, marriage is not a random event. As such, the association may stem from selection processes, whereby men less inclined toward antisocial behavior are more likely to marry... - Development of the Brief Romantic Relationship Interaction Coding Scheme (BRRICS)Mikhila N Humbad
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Fam Psychol 25:759-69. 2011.... - Personality development across the life span: longitudinal analyses with a national sample from GermanyRichard E Lucas
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:847-61. 2011..Mean levels of Conscientiousness increased among young adults and then decreased among older adults. Trajectories for Neuroticism were relatively flat, with slight increases during middle age and a slight decline in late life... - What does the narcissistic personality inventory really measure?Robert A Ackerman
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Assessment 18:67-87. 2011..In light of the findings, we propose a hierarchical model for the structure of the NPI and provide researchers with a scoring scheme for this commonly used instrument... - Age-of-onset or behavioral sub-types? A prospective comparison of two approaches to characterizing the heterogeneity within antisocial behaviorS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:633-44. 2011..Such findings suggest that the behavioral sub-types of antisocial behavior may be a stronger predictor of later antisocial outcomes than is its age-of-onset... - The stability of personality traits in individuals with borderline personality disorderChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:806-15. 2009..Finally, the BPD group was less stable in terms of the ipsative configuration of FFM facet-level profiles than was the other PD group over time. Results point to the importance of personality trait instability in characterizing BPD... - Age differences in personality: evidence from a nationally representative Australian sampleRichard E Lucas
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 45:1353-63. 2009..Thus, investigations of narrower aspects of personality may reveal more nuanced age differences and may begin to explain contradictory results from different studies... - Age differences in the Big Five across the life span: evidence from two national samplesM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Psychol Aging 23:558-66. 2008..Neither gender nor education level were consistent moderators of age differences in the Big Five... - Positive-engagement behaviors in observed family interactions: a social relations perspectiveRobert A Ackerman
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, MI, USA
J Fam Psychol 25:719-30. 2011..Finally, results highlighted the relative distinctiveness of the marital and sibling relationships, as well as the existence of reciprocity within these dyads... - Personal characteristics and resilience to economic hardship and its consequences: conceptual issues and empirical illustrationsM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
J Pers 77:1645-76. 2009..These preliminary findings support the hypothesized model and extend research concerning the life course outcomes associated with personal characteristics... - How should the internal structure of personality inventories be evaluated?Christopher J Hopwood
Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 14:332-46. 2010.... - The mini-IPIP scales: tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personalityM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48823, USA
Psychol Assess 18:192-203. 2006..Collectively, these results indicate that the Mini-IPIP is a psychometrically acceptable and practically useful short measure of the Big Five factors of personality... - Personality, family history, and competence in early adult romantic relationshipsM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:562-76. 2005..Discussion further develops an account of relationship success and dysfunction that integrates proximal factors, such as couple interactions, with more distal factors such as personality and socialization experiences... - Growth curve models for indistinguishable dyads using multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling: the case of adolescent twins' conflict with their mothersDeborah A Kashy
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 44:316-29. 2008..They illustrate modeling issues using an overtime study of adolescent twins' conflict with their mothers, a substantively important topic given the enduring interest in parent-child relationships during adolescence... - Assessment of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality via normal personality measures: convergent validity, criterion validity, and developmental changeEdward A Witt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
J Pers Assess 91:265-76. 2009..Collectively, these results provide important information about the assessment of FD and IA... - Development and validation of the Subtypes of Antisocial Behavior QuestionnaireS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Aggress Behav 35:376-98. 2009..In short, it appears that the STAB is a brief and useful measure that can be used to differentiate and assess physically aggressive, rule-breaking, and socially aggressive forms of antisocial behavior... - Externalizing psychopathology and marital adjustment in long-term marriages: results from a large combined sample of married couplesMikhila N Humbad
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:151-62. 2010..These results highlight the importance of examining the presence of externalizing psychopathology and the personality attributes of both members of a dyad when considering psychological predictors of marital adjustment... - Reporting and interpreting research in PSPB: practices, principles, and pragmaticsDeborah A Kashy
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:1131-42. 2009..These suggestions emphasize ways to increase transparency in research reports. Transparency facilitates replication and a critical evaluation of research, thereby promoting scientific progress... - Personality development from late adolescence to young adulthood: differential stability, normative maturity, and evidence for the maturity-stability hypothesisM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823, USA
J Pers 75:237-63. 2007..These maturity-stability effects held when parent reports were used to assess personality. All told, there was evidence of both stability and change in personality during the transition to adulthood... - Dependability of personality, life satisfaction, and affect in short-term longitudinal dataIvana Anusic
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Pers 80:33-58. 2012..We discuss these findings in terms of their implications for the continuum of consistency and for the practical issue of selecting retest intervals for dependability analyses... - Optimism: an enduring resource for romantic relationshipsKimberly K Assad
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:285-97. 2007..Moreover, optimism predicted relative increases in relationship satisfaction over a 2-year interval. All told, these results suggest that optimism may serve as an enduring resource for romantic unions... - Family and individual difference predictors of trait aspects of negative interpersonal behaviors during emerging adulthoodHolly Hatton
Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Fam Psychol 22:448-55. 2008..All told, these results indicate that TSO models can be helpful tools for understanding the developmental antecedents of the trait-like aspects of interpersonal processes... - An interactionist perspective on the socioeconomic context of human developmentRand D Conger
1The Family Research Group, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 58:175-99. 2007..Drawing on the combined set of research findings, the article concludes with the description of an interactionist model that serves as a heuristic for future studies of the links among SES, parenting behaviors, and child development... - Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthoodKali H Trzesniewski
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 42:381-90. 2006..The findings suggest that low self-esteem during adolescence predicts negative real-world consequences during adulthood... - Differences in personality and patterns of recidivism between early starters and other serious male offendersXiaojia Ge
Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 31:68-77. 2003..Moreover, results indicated that early starters were at a significantly higher risk for recidivism than later starters, both at a 15-month and a 20-year follow-up... - Reciprocal influences between parents' marital problems and adolescent internalizing and externalizing behaviorMing Cui
Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Dev Psychol 43:1544-52. 2007..In sum, the present study demonstrates that marital dissatisfaction, conflict over child rearing, and early adolescent adjustment difficulties are interwoven in a dynamic family system marked by reciprocity along these dimensions... - Do today's young people really think they are so extraordinary? An examination of secular trends in narcissism and self-enhancementKali H Trzesniewski
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Psychol Sci 19:181-8. 2008..These results cast doubt on the belief that today's young people have increasingly inflated impressions of themselves compared with previous generations... - Stability of self-esteem across the life spanKali H Trzesniewski
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616 8686, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:205-20. 2003..This trend could not be explained by age differences in the reliability of self-esteem measures, and generally replicated across gender, ethnicity, self-esteem scale, nationality (U.S. vs. non-U.S.), and year of publication...