ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
Observed Personality in Preschool: Associations with Current and Longitudinal Symptoms.
Article in Journal of abnormal child psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development and Initial Validation of the Pathological Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Scale for Children (POPS-C).Journal of personality disorders · 2026Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Risk for psychiatric and peer outcomes.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Brief Report: Aspects of Preschool Personality Predict Sexual Behavior in Young Adulthood.Personality and individual differences · 2026Article
- Do trajectories of self- and interpersonal functioning identify a core underlying developmental pathway for personality pathology in late adolescence and early adulthood?Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Preschool Big Five Personality Traits Predict Childhood Peer Relationships and BPD but Not MDD in Late Adolescence.Personality and mental health · 2025Article
- Telehealth-Delivered Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (RO DBT-A): A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study.American journal of psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Longitudinal predictors for internalizing and externalizing symptomatology at age 4: KUNO-Kids cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Developmental pathways from preschool temper tantrums to later psychopathology.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Using A Thin Slice Coding Approach to Assess Preschool Overweight and Obesity.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Childhood maltreatment predicts subsequent anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolescents: the role of the tendency of coping styles.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- Thin slice derived personality types predict longitudinal symptom trajectories.Personality disorders · 2021Article
- Personality Traits and Aggression as Explanatory Variables of Cyberbullying in Spanish Preadolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Preschool Depression: a Diagnostic Reality.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Personality is consistently associated with psychopathology across the lifespan. However, little is known of how observed personality dimensions in preschoolers are associated with concurrent or longitudinal symptoms across development. Spectrum, vulnerability, and pathopolasty models theorize how child personality and psychopathology are related across development. The current study tests these three models using observationally coded personality dimensions in a longitudinal sample of preschoolers. A validated 'thin slice' technique was used to code observed Five Factor Model (FFM) personality dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience in a clinically enriched preschool sample oversampled for depression (N = 299). Children were followed longitudinally for 9 years while assessing dimensional psychological symptoms and global functioning. Longitudinal multilevel models testing the spectrum, or shared underlying factor model, indicated depressive symptoms in adolescence were predicted by higher preschool extraversion and lower agreeableness and conscientiousness, externalizing symptoms were predicted by lower agreeableness and higher neuroticism, and worse global functioning was predicted by higher extraversion and neuroticism, and lower agreeableness and conscientiousness. Some associations held after accounting for the influence of baseline psychological symptoms, indicating support for a vulnerability relationship between personality and later psychopathology. No support was demonstrated for pathoplasty models such that personality did not influence the developmental course or change of psychopathology over time. Findings indicate personality dimensions measured as early as the preschool period prospectively impact psychopathology and functioning across child development, demonstrating support for both a spectrum and vulnerability relationship between youth personality and psychopathology.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.