ABSTRACT

Situational variation is consistently leveled as a criticism of character research and theory. Across adolescence, young people’s realization that they may display certain character strengths in some relational contexts (e.g., with peers) but not in others (e.g., with parents) may reflect a normative, underlying process of differentiation. Using a diverse sample 618 adolescents, their mother, a peer, and nonfamilial adult, we used Response Surface Analysis (RSA) to examine associations between pairs of informant reports of patience and indicators of positive and negative functioning and how these associations varied with age. With increasing age, adolescents become more realistic in patience self-ratings. Results begin to shed light on both contextual and age-related differences in young people’s patience and the continued need for theoretically grounded, developmentally informed research.

摘要

情境变化一直被视为对性格研究和理论的批评。在整个青春期，年轻人意识到他们可能在某些关系环境中（例如，与同龄人）而在其他环境中（例如，与父母）表现出某些性格优势，这可能反映了一种规范的、潜在的分化过程。我们使用不同样本的 618 名青少年、他们的母亲、同龄人和非家庭成年人，使用响应面分析 (RSA) 来检查耐心的知情人报告与积极和消极功能指标之间的关联，以及这些关联如何随年龄而变化。随着年龄的增长，青少年在耐心自我评价方面变得更加现实。