Journal
CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 856-868Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-020-01063-9
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Temperament; Character; Personality networks; Behavioral; Emotional problems
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- FundacAo para a Ciencia e Tecnologia I.P. (FCT) [Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology] [CIPD-BI-UID/PSI/04375/2016, PTDC/MHC-CED/2224/2014]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/MHC-CED/2224/2014] Funding Source: FCT
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Recent research suggests that adaptive functioning and well-being in adolescents depend on the integration of learning and memory systems regulating associative conditioning, intentionality, and self-awareness. Different integrated configurations of these systems are associated with internalizing and externalizing problems. Adolescents with stable temperament and healthy characters are less likely to have clinical problems, and the integration of these profiles is crucial for mental health.
Recent research indicates that adaptive functioning and well-being depends on the integration of three dissociable systems of learning and memory that regulate associative conditioning, intentionality and self-awareness. Our study objective was to describe how different integrated configurations of these systems (i.e. different expressions of personality) relate to the presence of internalizing, externalizing and total problems. In total, 699 adolescents completed the JTCI and Achenbach's YSR. Latent profile analyses revealed two temperament profiles and six character profiles. Adolescents with a steady temperament, and those with healthy characters, were significantly less likely to present clinical levels of problems. The integration of a steady temperament and healthy character profiles in aMature-Steadyjoint temperament-character network was also associated with significantly less clinical problems. In sum, our person-centered study indicates that adaptive expressions of associative conditioning, intentionality, and self-awareness (i.e. integrated personalities) are critical for mental health.
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