Researchers studying personality development have been concerned with a variety of
issues, one ofthem being the lack ofconsensus about the structure of adult personality. In the …

Personality psychologists have long sought to generate a taxonomy of personality traits that
would provide an integrative framework for personality research. This search for the basic …

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 …

The seven-factor model of personality developed by Cloninger and colleagues describes
personality as a function of developmental aspects of character superimposed on heritable …

In recent years, the five-factor model (the Big Five) has emerged as a persuasive paradigm
for the organization of personality concepts into a meaningful and heuristic structure. Like …

566 MERRILL-PALMER QUARTERLY describing the essential components of individual
differences. This restora tion"... was not the proposal of a new conceptual model or paradigm …

Adult personality psychologists have long been intrigued by the major, broad-band
personality dimensions that underlie human behavior. In recent years, an emerging …

Childhood personality is a rapidly growing area of investigation within individual differences
research. One understudied topic is the universality of the hierarchical structure of childhood …

The present research was conducted to map the hierarchical structure of youths' personality
traits, to identify the foundational level of this structure, and to test whether the meanings of …

Abstract The Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality domains was proven useful as a
taxonomy serving the purpose of classifying parents' descriptions of pre-school and school …