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Can we really predict what our child will be like in 40 years? Can we know before hand what his or her conduct and qualities will grow into? The answer is always “Yes”.
According to a new study conducted by researchers from California University and published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the answer is also “Yes”.
The researchs in this new study relied on teachers assessment interviews that targeted multinational and ethnic primary schoolchildren in 1960.
The research team, led by psychologist Christopher Nave of the University of California, compared teachers original observations with the present-day evaluations of the same people to discover that the vast majority of participants hadn’t changed in terms of core personalities. The study shows that almost after four decades, a huge time gap, the old traits still hold true, revealing that an individual, be it a man or a woman, remains recognizable by the same personality he/she had at the age of ten, albeit in somewhat different form.
Nave and his colleagues randomly selected 144 of the interviews made between 1959 and 1967 with 2,400 Hawaiian elementary school students from awide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The fundamental finding, according to the research team, was that after four decades, and individual’s personality was found to be very much similar to this personality when he was a child. “Each of as remains himself”, Nave said, stressing that the importance lies in that the individual’s core personality traits and details remain consistent over time.
The Talktative Child rated as ‘verbally fluent’, talktative or spontaneous exhibited dominant and socially adept behavior and were characterized as middle-aged adults by eloquence and leadership skills whereas those rated by their teachers as low in ‘verbal fluency’ were found, as middle-aged adults, tending to “seek advice, give up in the face of obstacles and exhibit awkward interpersonal styles”.
**Early Adaptability **according to their teachers, children who were associated with ‘Early Adaptability’, exhibited cheerfulness intellectual curiosity high morale, fluency, developed social skills and openness on new stances as adults. In contrast, ‘low adaptability’ children, manifested self-criticism and exhibited confusion and tendency to seek advice and minimize one’s own importance.
Impulsivity according to the researchers impulsive children were associated later with talktativeness, loud speech and interest in various things while ‘low impulsive’ ones were associated with fear and timidity as well as passiveness and a feeling of insecurity.
**Self- minimize **catergory in the children who never minimized their own importance exhibited humility or showed off in childhood, appeared later to be in need for reassurance, moral support and self confidence. They also tend to talk in a negative way about themselves. In contrast those of a lower 'self-minimize attitude exhibited, as grown-ups a tendency to speak in loud voices, show particular interest in intellectual issues, be ambitious and reveal strong will and a feeling of superiority while dealing with others.
**Comments and Analysis **commencing on these results, Nave thinks that the character of each and eery one of us inherent. It is rather a part of our bilogical diversity. He also admits that influential events do affect the course of individuals’ behaviour. The child’s personality reflects his future bebhavior and enables us to understad it more deeply, he added.
As to Schmitt, Professor of Psychology at Braddley University in Illinois, Riverside, he argues that the patterns of emotioanl relations of an individual are subject to change as age advances after a person has gone through multiple experiences and has been exposed to other people’s influence.
To Prof. Delroy Paulhus from the University of British Columbia, although the human personality remains stable with age and though certain attributes remain constant, their implications could slightly change with environment and age. A naughty child, for example, could turn into the star of the theatre as an adult, he explained.
The research team plans to continue exploring human personalities and deepen knowlege about their different aspects and raits to see how they influence future productivity and output. They want to know to what extent personal conduct and personality are interconnected out of belief that this would help them understand it better and uncover the individuals’ ability to alter his personality traits over time.