The Personality of Young Adult Couples and Wives' Work Patterns

Helson, Ravenna; Roberts, Brent W.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00921.x

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“…For both women and partners, all correlations with these adjectives exceeded .30 and were significant at the p < .05 level (Helson & Roberts, 1992).…”

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“…Hypotheses were tested using four cluster scales (Helson & Roberts, 1992) from the Adjective Check List (ACL; Gough & Heilbrun, 1983). At age 52, mothers of the most well adjusted children were expected to be high on Competence and Affiliation, whereas the fathers of these children were expected to be high on Forcefulness and Individuality.…”

Section: The Marriage Co-parenting and Adult Child Adjustmentmentioning

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The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

Solomon

2000

Journal of Personality

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This longitudinal study of several aspects of parenting examines how children "turn out" as adults. Ratings of adjustment (educational and occupational attainment as well as social and emotional maturity) in young adult children (aged 25-37) were made on the basis of information from 64 mothers who were participants in a longitudinal study of women's lives. As hypothesized, mothers who were demanding yet responsive, sensitive, and psychologically mature at ages 27 and 43 had children with higher overall adult adjustment scores. Other factors correlated with adjustment included the mother's long-term commitment to being a wife and mother, and the cohesiveness of the home environment. In their 50s, characteristics of parents associated with adult child adjustment were different for men and women (competence in women and forcefulness and individuality in men). Divorce was not a negative factor, and mothers' paid work (after age 27) was positive at a trend level.

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“…For both women and partners, all correlations with these adjectives exceeded .30 and were significant at the p < .05 level (Helson & Roberts, 1992).…”

Section: Personality Characteristicsmentioning

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The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

Solomon

2000

Journal of Personality

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“…Being individualistic implies a greater focus on creative or thoughtful interests than in people (Storr, 1988). Individuality thus conveys qualities of creativity or imagination, unconventionality or nonconformity, and multifacetedness (e.g., Helson & Roberts, 1992;Wink & Helson, 1993). All of these adjectives fit within the five-factor model conception of openness to experience (McCrae, 1994), but they also are quite compatible with Loevinger's concept of ego development (e.g., her postconscientious levels of individualistic, autonomous, and integrated; Loevinger, 1993).…”

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Photographic Individuality, Breadth of Perspective, and Creativity

Dollinger¹,

Robinson²,

Ross³

1999

Journal of Personality

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Individuality is valued in most conceptions of personality, but is seldom operationalized. The present research used photo essays about the self as the medium for operationalizing self-construals that are unlike others (i.e., are uniquely creative, abstract, self-reflective, and multidimensional). Ratings of these photo essays from two samples (N = 183 university students) served as the measure of individuality. This measure was predicted and found to correlate in both samples with Breadth of Interest from the Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI; Jackson, 1994). In Study 1, individuality also correlated with the JPI Complexity scale and with two measures of divergent thinking (unique word associations, and fluency on Wallach & Kogan's [1965] creativity tasks). In Study 2, individuality correlated with having more permeable boundaries, a nonprejudicial universal orientation, and imagining greater cultural diversity in one's future. Results suggest that individualistic persons take a broader, more complex and more creative perspective to their lives.The term individuality frequently is used in psychological scholarship, but few researchers have focused on it as a specific topic of interest. Some psychologists have equated individuality with individual differencesThe authors are grateful to Kellie Broy, Cindy Cook, Becky Cromwell, William Graham, Shellie Loretto, Faith Mealer, and Rich Yuen for their assistance with data reduction for photo essays or creativity methods. We also thank Stephanie Clancy Dollinger for her comments on the manuscript.

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“…Also pertaining to individuality, note that the trait of Openness to Experience has been labeled as individuality byHelson and Roberts (1992) and denned by Creative Personality and Change scales. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.…”

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Individuality and relatedness of the self: An autophotographic study.

Dollinger¹,

Preston²,

O'Brien³

et al. 1996

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Using R. C. Ziller's (1990) method of autophotography, the authors studied the duality of relatedness and individuality. A total of 226 young adults used photos (and words) to portray "who they are." Photo essays were scored for objective codes (e.g., people touching) and subjectively rated for individuality (richness of self-depiction). As predicted, persons who emphasized their personal rather than social identity depicted greater individuality; relatedness was associated with social and collective identity. Other results replicated earlier gender differences in relatedness and associations of individuality and relatedness with the 5-factor model. In the 2nd wave of the sample, individuality was associated with higher ego development, maturity, and self-directed values; low individuality was associated with restrictive conformity and security values. The authors suggest that the combination of individuality and relatedness is optimal for human development.Autobiographical and self-narrative methods have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology (e.g., Baumeister & Newman, 1994;Howard, Maerlender, Myers, & Curtin, 1992;McAdams, 1985), and one such method, the autophotographic essay, has considerable promise for revealing new insights about personality and social psychology (Ziller, 1990). Our purpose in the present study is to extend recent work with this method to shed light on the relationship between individuality and social connection or relatedness (Franz

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The Personality of Young Adult Couples and Wives' Work Patterns

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

Photographic Individuality, Breadth of Perspective, and Creativity

Individuality and relatedness of the self: An autophotographic study.

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