title: Do as You're Told! Facets of Agreeableness and Early Adult Outcomes for Inner-City Boys.
abstract: With data from the middle cohort of the Pittsburgh Youth Study, a prospective longitudinal study of inner-city boys, we examined whether Big Five agreeableness facets could be reliably recovered in this sample, and whether facets predicted educational, occupational, social, and antisocial life outcomes assessed a decade later. Caregivers described their adolescent boys' personalities using the Common California Q-Set; twelve years later, participants were interviewed and court records were obtained. Factor analyses recovered two facets: compliance and compassion. Compliance predicted more schooling and lower risk of unemployment, teenage fatherhood, and crime; compassion related to longer committed relationships. Findings highlight the value of studying personality at the facet level.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
authors: Margaret L
authors: ML
authors: Kern
authors: Angela L
authors: AL
authors: Duckworth
authors: Sergio
authors: S
authors: Urzúa
authors: Rolf
authors: R
authors: Loeber
authors: Magda
authors: M
authors: Stouthamer-Loeber
authors: Donald R
authors: DR
authors: Lynam
keywords: Agreeableness; Big Five personality; Inner-City Youth; Personality Facets; Prospective Longitudinal Study