Department of Human Ecology.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Dev Psychol. 2021 Feb;57(2):139-146. doi: 10.1037/dev0001049.
This special section focuses on the life-course development of positive and negative personality traits and their consequences. Specifically, we pose four research questions inspired by the special section in on Conscientiousness (Reiss, Eccles, & Nielsen, 2014). The current set of articles extends the examination of the positive effects of Conscientiousness on individual well-being by also considering the potentially disruptive effects of specific negative personality traits (alienation and low sense of well-being). Our four questions are as follows. Question 1: what are the correlates of Conscientiousness and negative personality traits in terms of family processes? Question 2: to what degree do Conscientiousness and negative traits operate in a transactional process with the social and economic environment to amplify or suppress these characteristics? Question 3: how do individual personality characteristics affect specific behaviors and interactions within lived-environments to impact later well-being and life outcomes? Question 4: is there evidence that particular genetic characteristics affect connections between personality and its antecedents or consequences? One unique aspect of the present special section is that we address these issues across time utilizing prospective, longitudinal data provided by over 2,400 individual family members participating in the Family Transitions Project (FTP). This introductory article outlines the goals of the special section, and presents the background and development of the FTP, a longitudinal, multigenerational research project which provides the data for the four empirical articles in the special section. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
本特刊重点关注积极和消极人格特质的毕生发展及其后果。具体来说，我们提出了四个研究问题，这些问题受到 2014 年关于责任心（Reiss、Eccles 和 Nielsen）的特刊的启发。当前这组文章通过考虑特定消极人格特质（疏离感和幸福感低下）对个体幸福感的潜在破坏性影响，扩展了对责任心对个体幸福感的积极影响的考察。我们的四个问题如下。问题 1：在家庭过程方面，责任心和消极人格特质的相关因素是什么？问题 2：责任心和消极特质在多大程度上与社会经济环境发生交互作用，从而放大或抑制这些特征？问题 3：个体人格特征如何影响生活环境中的特定行为和相互作用，从而影响以后的幸福感和生活结果？问题 4：是否有证据表明特定的遗传特征会影响人格与其前因或后果之间的联系？本特刊的一个独特方面是，我们利用超过 2400 名参与家庭转型项目（FTP）的个体家庭成员提供的前瞻性、纵向数据，跨时间解决这些问题。本文概述了特刊的目标，并介绍了 FTP 的背景和发展情况，FTP 是一个纵向的、多代研究项目，为特刊中的四篇实证文章提供了数据。（美国心理协会，2021）。
