The Effects of Achievement of Developmental Tasks in Adolescence on 5-factor Personality Characteristics, Self-esteem and Happiness (청년기 발달과업 성취가 청소년의 5요인 성격특성과 자기존중감 및 행복에 미치는 영향)

Hwee-Sook Jang (장휘숙)

The Effects of Achievement of Developmental Tasks in Adolescence on 5-factor Personality Characteristics, Self-esteem and Happiness

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2010, 23(2), pp.1-17
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Hwee-Sook Jang ¹

¹충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined how many developmental tasks based on Havighurst's ones in adolescence were achieved and whether there was sex difference in the levels of achievement of developmental tasks with 515 male and female adolescents. Also it was examined whether there were differences in 5-factor personality characteristics, self-esteem and happiness according to the achievement level of developmental tasks. As 6 tasks among 17 developmental tasks had highest proportion in 'already achieved,' 8 tasks in 'just starting' and 3 tasks in 'not yet'. High school period was the beginning time for achievement of typical developmental tasks of adolescence. Interestingly male adolescents tended to be maturer than female counterparts in 4 tasks among 17 developmental tasks. Also it was found higher group in achievement levels of developmental tasks had higher extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, self-esteem and happiness than lower group in achievement levels.

KEYWORDS

developmental tasks, 5-factor personality characteristics, self-esteem, happiness

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