Journal article
Evidence for Childhood Origins of Conscientiousness: Testing a Developmental Path From Toddler Age to Adolescence
Developmental psychology, Vol.55(1), pp.196-206
01/2019
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000608
PMCID: PMC6296862
PMID: 30382718
Abstract
We tested empirically a theoretical model of early origins of conscientiousness proposed by Eisenberg, Duckworth, Spinrad, and Valiente (2014). The model posited a developmental interplay between children's early effortful control (EC) and internalized or committed compliance with parents as leading to future conscientiousness. We followed a community sample of 102 community mothers, fathers, and children from toddlerhood to adolescence. Observers coded children's EC in batteries of behavioral tasks (at ages 2 and 3) and committed compliance in lengthy discipline interactions with each parent, observed from preschool to early school age (at ages 4.5, 5.5, and 6.5). Parents rated adolescents' conscientiousness using an established personality questionnaire (at age 14). We supported several components of the theoretical model. Mediation analyses, conducted at the family level (across mother-child and father-child dyads) and separate analyses for mother-child and father-child dyads all supported the mediated path, from child EC to committed compliance to conscientiousness. Analyses for mother-child dyads additionally revealed that the indirect effect was present only for children with relatively low EC scores but not those with relatively high EC scores (moderated mediation), also as anticipated in the theoretical model.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evidence for Childhood Origins of Conscientiousness: Testing a Developmental Path From Toddler Age to Adolescence
- Creators
- Sanghag Kim - Department of Sociology, Hanyang UniversityGrazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Eric F Dubow (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.55(1), pp.196-206
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/dev0000608
- PMID
- 30382718
- PMCID
- PMC6296862
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000025, name: National Institute of Mental Health, award: R01 MH63096, K02 MH01446; DOI: 10.13039/100000071, name: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, award: R01 HD069171, R01 HD091047; name: Hanyang
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002588302771
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