Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
J Pers. 2013 Oct;81(5):499-509. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12027. Epub 2013 Apr 8.
We examined the potential moderating role of Block's personality types (i.e., overcontrollers, undercontrollers, and resilients) on the longitudinal associations between adolescents' and their best friends' delinquency. Across three annual waves, 497 Dutch adolescents (283 boys, M(Age) = 13 years at Wave 1) and their best friends reported on their delinquent behaviors. Adolescents' three personality types were obtained by latent class growth analysis on their annual reports on Big Five personality. A three-group cross-lagged panel analysis was performed on three waves of data. Delinquency of overcontrollers was predicted by their best friends' delinquency, whereas delinquency of undercontrollers and resilients was not. Delinquency of undercontrollers and resilients predicted their best friends' delinquency, but overcontrollers' delinquency did not. These findings suggest that personality may play an important role in adolescents' susceptibility to the influence of friends' delinquency, as well as in youths' ability to influence friends through their own delinquency.
我们考察了 Block 的人格类型（即过度控制者、不足控制者和弹性者）在青少年及其最好朋友的犯罪行为之间的纵向关联中的潜在调节作用。在三个年度波次中，497 名荷兰青少年（283 名男生，第 1 波次时的平均年龄为 13 岁）及其最好的朋友报告了他们的犯罪行为。青少年的三种人格类型是通过对他们在大五人格方面的年度报告进行潜在类别增长分析得出的。对三个波次的数据进行了三群组交叉滞后面板分析。过度控制者的犯罪行为由他们最好朋友的犯罪行为预测，而不足控制者和弹性者的犯罪行为则没有。不足控制者和弹性者的犯罪行为预测了他们最好朋友的犯罪行为，但过度控制者的犯罪行为则没有。这些发现表明，人格可能在青少年对朋友犯罪行为的易感性以及青少年通过自己的犯罪行为影响朋友的能力方面发挥重要作用。
