Carving personality description at its joints: Confirmation of three replicable personality prototypes for both children and adults

• DOI: 10.1002/per.408
• Publication Date: 2005-01-25T02:22:19Z
• Authors: Jens B. Asendorpf; Peter Borkenau; Fritz Ostendorf; Marcel A.G. Van Aken
• Keywords: Carving; Personality development

We tested the hypothesis that there are three major prototypic patterns of personality description (resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled) in a series studies including adults' self‐descriptions on Big Five parents' Q‐Sort judgments their children, using both replicated cluster analyses Q‐factor analyses. The consistency prototypes across ages, judges, methods was quantitatively measured. results confirmed all studies. Personality, social relationship, interaction correlates indicated externalizing tendencies for undercontrollers internalizing overcontrollers children adults. provide strong evidence three‐prototype model at highest level analysis childhood adulthood. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.