Parental Descriptions of Child Personality: Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five?

by Charles F. Halverson Jr., Dolph Kohnstamm, Ivan Mervielde, et al.

Book Overview

This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children. It is an important piece of research because of its cross-national focus on personality development.

The authors present a data set that reveals considerable consistency in the parental descriptions of child personality in both western and nonwestern countries. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138002631
• ISBN13: 9781138002630
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"