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THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS IN SEVEN‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN: A COMBINED PSYCHOLOGICAL, PSYCHIATRIC AND SOMATOTYPE STUDY
Author(s) -
DAVIDSON MAY A.,
McINNES R. G.,
PARNELL R. W.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1957.tb01391.x
Subject(s) - psychology , constitution , personality , developmental psychology , etiology , big five personality traits , psychiatry , clinical psychology , social psychology , political science , law
S ummary .— The physical constitutions of 100 seven‐year‐old children have been assessed. The more closely correlated facets of physique and behaviour in childhood are reported. A time may come when it will be possible to compare these findings in a series of healthy children with those in a group of children needing psychiatric help. When this is achieved, further light may be thrown on the aetiology of mental illness. In the meantime, it has been shown that the somatotype can give some indication of the kind of behaviour to expect in different individuals, and that exact measurements support what has for centuries been appreciated in less precise form, namely that physical constitution plays an important part in shaping people's lives.