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PubMed1986

Career awareness and personal development: a naturalistic study of gifted adolescent girls' concerns.

The role of social interaction and the importance of humor in the development of gifted adolescent females' beliefs about career options are explored in this paper. Findings are based on a qualitative study which utilized participant-observation and interviewing during a four-month career exploration seminar for gifted females. The results of this study indicate that gifted girls experience a unique conflict between expectations directed at gifted students, and their status as females. The use of humor functioned as a coping device to promote relaxation and release tension.

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[Personality development in the elderly--a psychoanalytic paradigm of development].

Traditional concepts within psychoanalytically oriented developmental psychology end with adulthood. The life cycle theories of Erikson as well as Colarusso & Nemiroff cannot, in their current form, explain the processes of conflict interaction in adulthood that are responsible for continued development. Currently existing aging-specific psychoanalytic and cognitive-motivational oriented theories do not provide solutions to this question. Based on the first qualitative results from 2-4-hour semi-structured, biographical interviews with older adults, a simplified model of development throughout the life-course based on the following three basic organizing principles (in accordance with Spitz) is presented 1) psychological processes until adulthood; 2) social relationships during adulthood; 3) somatic processes in late life. Further empirical investigation of this model will be carried out within the context of the Eldermen-study now in progress. First results indicate a variety of clinically relevant developmental conflicts in late life. A deeper understanding of these conflicts will provide the basis for more extensive and appropriate therapeutic interventions.

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PubMed1990

Living habits and personality development of adolescent twins: a longitudinal follow-up study in a birth cohort from pregnancy to adolescence.

The living habits of 289 twins in a one-year birth cohort beginning during pregnancy and followed up to adolescence were compared with those of 11,623 singletons and two sets of controls matched either by maternal factors and place of residence only or by these and perinatal morbidity, all from the same cohort. The twins went in for sports more often than the singletons or any kind of controls. A nonsignificant trend was found indicating that twins smoked less often than their matched controls. The twins also used alcohol less often than their controls. The intrapair similarities of twins were higher than the similarities of twins and either type of controls in all four variables tested: sports, smoking, use of alcohol, as well as having been drunk.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

Long-term effects on personality development in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Influence of type of treatment.

In a series of 157 patients treated surgically and/or with Milwaukee braces, constituting 83% of the original criterion patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, treated in the Department of Orthopaedics in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 1969 to 1974, a specific psychologic interview was carried out an average of 9 years after treatment. The 92 surgical patients all wore a Milwaukee brace postoperatively for 6-9 months and were gradually weaned over the next year (17 +/- 2 months). The brace-treated patients wore their braces full time for 18 months and part time for another 8 months (26 +/- 3 months). The psychologic portion of the study was a semistructured interview aimed at evaluating reactions in connection with the diagnostic phase, attitudes and reactions to the treatment, attitudes to the hospital staff, and body image concepts at follow-up. The brace-treated patients more often said that they experienced more fear and anxiety when informed about the diagnosis than did the surgical patients (53% and 38%, respectively). In both groups, nearly all patients initially had negative attitudes to the brace treatment. Most of the surgically treated patients gradually accepted the brace, whereas very few of the other group did so. Forty percent in the brace group had negative experiences with the hospital staff, but only 15% in the other group reported negative experience. Several years after completed treatment, one-half of the brace group had definite signs of negative body image concept, whereas this emotional disturbance was found in 33% of the surgically treated patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1987

Personality development following sexual abuse.

Thirty-seven girls and twelve boys who had been sexually abused at an average of 2.6 years previously were traced and reviewed. The nonoffending parents participated in a structured interview and the children were assessed using the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale and the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist. Each child was matched with a child not known to have been sexually abused and these control children underwent a similar psychological assessment. Interviews with the nonoffending parents found that 76% of the children were thought to be less confident than before, 30% had fewer friends, and 20% were more aggressive. Increased sexual awareness was noted in 24%. School teachers reported that 28% still had behavior problems, 17% had repeated a year at school, and a further 17% had deteriorated in their school work. The sexually abused girls had significantly lower self-esteem than the control girls. There was no difference in self-esteem between the control and the sexually abused boys. There was a higher incidence of stranger assault in the boys compared with the girls. The Child Behavior Checklist completed by the parents, the Teacher Report Form, and the Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklist showed that a highly significant proportion of sexually abused children fell into the clinical range. Sexual abuse appears to have long-term adverse consequences for many of the victims. This may have implications for their ability to relate to others, for the adult friendships they will make, and eventually for the way they will relate to their own children.

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PubMed1975

IES Arrow-Dot longitudinal study of personality development in preschool children.

Preschool children were administered the IES Arrow-Dot at the beginning and end of the school year and scores compared with those based on a prior study in a Montessori preschool. Developmental trends of declining Impulsivity and rising Ego scores were corroborated. Superego development remained almost stable in contrast to a significant rise for the Montessori sample. Results support effective use of the test with preschoolers to assess baselines and developmental patterns of personality integration.

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PubMed1982

Personality development and temperament.

This paper identifies a number of problems that emerge in our attempts to trace a developmental linkage between early-appearing individual differences in temperament and later personality. It is suggested that the major problem is that of inadequate theory, from which it follows that there will be problems of definition and methodology. Attention is also drawn to difficulties associated with the concept of 'development'. Certain early-appearing individual difference are identified, for which there is accumulating evidence of a genetic or constitutional basis. Further, these appear to show some stability and are accorded an important role in a number of theories, especially that of Eysenck. It is suggested that his approach, despite its many limitations, is worth further exploration.

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PubMed1991

A scale for evaluating emotional disorders in severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons. Development of the Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped (DASH) scale.

The DASH scale was used to assess 506 profoundly and severely mentally retarded persons (247 females and 259 males). The scale, covering 13 major psychiatric disorders, consists of 83 items derived from DSM-III-R as well as previously published studies of this population. Data were collected on symptom frequency, duration and severity in individual interviews with direct-care staff. Elimination and pervasive developmental disorders were most frequent, self-injurious behaviour disorders most severe. Most symptoms had been evident for at least a year. Inter-rater reliability was generally good.

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PubMed1988

[Clinical characteristics of the depressive development of personality].

To study manifestations of the depressive personality development, the authors followed up 48 women (of the total number of 143 patients) exposed to long-term objectively unsolvable psychogenically traumatizing situation related to a child's disease. The symptomatology of depressive neurosis had undergone a typical course by the moment of examination: the acuteness, vividness and lability of the affect had disappeared, being replaced by its monotony; depression of the psychic activity in all spheres of life had deepened and strengthened, faith in a favourable resolution of the situation had been fully lost; new traits related to anxiety-dysthymic attitude toward people and events had formed; psychosomatic diseases had developed in the presence of marked vegetative manifestations. Clinical variants of depressive personality development are described. A conclusion is drawn about the typical eventuality of a depressive neurosis in the depressive development of the personality.

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