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  • Title: The personality correlates of adults who had imaginary companions in childhood.
    Author: Kidd E, Rogers P, Rogers C.
    Journal: Psychol Rep; 2010 Aug; 107(1):163-72. PubMed ID: 20923060.
    Abstract:
    Two studies showed that adults who reported having an imaginary companion as a child differed from adults who did not on certain personality dimensions. The first yielded a higher mean on the Gough Creative Personality Scale for the group who had imaginary companions. Study 2 showed that such adults scored higher on the Achievement and Absorption subscales of Tellegen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire. The results suggest that some differences reported in the developmental literature may be observed in adults.
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