Before and after : personality pathology, childhood conditions, and life history outcomes

Peter K. Jonasen; Virgil Zeigler-Hill; Jake Baldacchino

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.027

Before and after : personality pathology, childhood conditions, and life history outcomes

Peter K. Jonasen, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Jake Baldacchino

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

In this study (N = 253), we examined how pathological personality traits are related to (self-reported) childhood conditions and the adult life outcomes of rates of education, socioeconomic status, income, and number of offspring for men and women. We found (1) childhood unpredictability was more strongly associated with pathological personality traits than was harshness; (2) higher levels of psychoticism were associated with a broad-spectrum of adverse life history outcomes; (3) men reported higher levels of detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism than women reported; and (4) moderated-mediational analyses suggested detachment and antagonism differentially mediated the associations between childhood socioecological conditions and adult life outcomes for men and women.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	38-43
Number of pages	6
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	116
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.027
Publication status	Published - 2017

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childhood
children
personality
psychology_pathological

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