Development of person description over adolescence.

J Youth Adolesc

Psychology Department, St. Patrick's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.

Published: October 1986

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  • Free-written descriptions from 190 adolescents showed that as they grew older, their descriptions of themselves and others became longer, more organized, and more psychological in nature.
  • Self-descriptions were more focused on the individual, while descriptions of others included more personality traits or dispositional terms.
  • Notably, girls provided more detailed and psychologically oriented descriptions than boys, indicating significant sex differences in how they articulate their thoughts about people.

Article Abstract

Free-written descriptions of self and various others were obtained from 190 adolescent boys and girls. Descriptions of persons became longer, more "psychological," and more organized over adolescence. Modes of construing persons were positively correlated across different stimulus persons. Selfdescriptions tended to be more person-centered than descriptions of others. However, more dispositional terms were ascribed to others than to the self. In contrast with previous research, substantial sex differences were found. Girls had more to say about persons and this was expressed more in psychological terms; girls qualified and organized descriptions more than did boys.

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