This symposium will examine parents and young children’s personality development. Different patterns of personality change and stability at the higher-order (i.e., broad dimensions) or lower-order (i.e., facets) traits level will be observed. The first two presentations will be about parents’ personality effects across the pre and postnatal. Thus, S. Galdiolo will focus on parent’s personality dyadic development across the perinatal period. Then, A. Assor’s presentation will be about the infant’s temperament as determinant of parent’s conditional-regard and autonomy-support. Preschoolers and toddlers’ personality development will then be examined. S. De Pauw will address personality development in early childhood and evaluate measures of three prominent temperament models with a child-based Five-Factor personality model. Finally, A. De Haan will examine changes in mother ratings of toddlers’ lower-order Big Five facets between ages 2 - 4.5 years.
Galdiolo, S. (2014). Parents’ and young children’s personality development. The 17th European Conference on Personality, Lausanne. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/230586