ReviewDevelopmental psychology2014
Conscientiousness: origins in childhood?
Review in Developmental psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 265 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function.Journal of personality · 2025Article
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- COVID-19's impact on learning processes in Australian university students.Social psychology of education : an international journal · 2023Article
- Impact of personality on cadet academic and military performance within mediating role of self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this review, we evaluate developmental and personality research with the aim of determining whether the personality trait of conscientiousness can be identified in children and adolescents. After concluding that conscientiousness does emerge in childhood, we discuss the developmental origins of conscientiousness with a specific focus on self-regulation, academic motivation, and internalized compliance/internalization of standards. On the basis of the accumulated body of evidence, we conclude that self-regulation fosters conscientiousness later in life, both directly and via academic motivation and internalized compliance with norms. We argue that elements of conscientiousness are evident by early childhood; self-regulation skills are likely a core developmental component of conscientiousness; and despite the contribution of heredity to the aforementioned aspects of functioning, environmental factors likely contribute to conscientiousness.
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