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  • Title: Relations between Big Five personality characteristics and perceived support in adolescents' families.
    Author: Branje SJ, van Lieshout CF, van Aken MA.
    Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol; 2004 Apr; 86(4):615-28. PubMed ID: 15053709.
    Abstract:
    The authors investigated the longitudinal relations between family members' Big Five personality factors and perceived support. Members of 285 two-parent families with 2 adolescent children judged their own and other family members' Big Five factors and the support perceived from the other members on 3 occasions at 12-month intervals. The Big Five factor Agreeableness was particularly related to perceived support. Changes in individuals' Big Five factors were linked to changes in the support they perceived themselves but even more to changes in the support that other family members perceived from them. Results are consistent with the parallel continuities hypothesis: Individual characteristics will be stable when there is stability in the supportive environment, but when the environment is changing, personality tends to change in the same direction, and vice versa.
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