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Early Childhood Stressors And Negative Personality Behaviors, Kyler Joachim
Early Childhood Stressors And Negative Personality Behaviors, Kyler Joachim
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Early Childhood Stressors and Negative Personality Behaviors
Research is moving away from static to contextual models of understanding personality development, making it imperative to consider daily occurrences, not just biology or significant traumatic events, in personality formation. Temperament has long been considered the innate source of behaviors that later solidify into personality, but behaviors themselves and the conditions that produce and reinforce them are shaped by the daily environment. This behavior-environment interaction is especially important for children experiencing childhood stressors like poverty, food insecurity, and parental aggravation. Non-clinical personality related behaviors may arise from these stressors, which can lead to …