Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Future of Work Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Scand J Psychol. 2023 Aug;64(4):512-526. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12898. Epub 2023 Feb 6.
Examining the Raine cohort study, we tested the trait continuity hypothesis by examining the extent that young adults' (25-29 years old) self-reported HEXACO personality can be statistically predicted from multi-dimensional parental temperament ratings collected in infancy (1-2 years old). The study incorporated a lagged design (two waves), a large sample size (n = 563), and examined both temperament and personality as both dimensions and profiles. Overall, we found very limited evidence of trait continuity, with generally very weak and few statistically significant observed associations of infant temperament with early adulthood personality. Relations were weak whether profile or dimension-based operationalizations of both phenomena were adopted. Additionally, controlling for sex affected the relations of temperament and personality only to a small extent for most of the traits, and moderation effects of sex were generally zero-to-trivial in size. Altogether, parent-rated temperament in infancy seems to provide little information about HEXACO personality in early adulthood.
我们通过考察青少年（25-29 岁）的自我报告 HEXACO 人格特质是否可以从婴儿期（1-2 岁）收集的多维父母气质评定中进行统计预测，来检验特质连续性假设。该研究采用滞后设计（两个时间点），样本量较大（n=563），并同时考察了气质和人格特质作为维度和特质类型的情况。总体而言，我们发现特质连续性的证据非常有限，婴儿气质与成年早期人格之间的关联通常非常微弱且数量很少。采用特质类型或维度的操作化方法，其结果都非常相似。此外，对于大多数特质，控制性别仅对气质和人格之间的关系产生很小的影响，并且性别调节效应通常很小。总而言之，婴儿期父母评定的气质似乎提供了关于成年早期 HEXACO 人格特质的很少信息。
