Personality and Cultural Correlates of Childhood Psychopathology
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Abstract
Cultural pluralism, especially salient in North America, has become a worldwide reality. As a result, collectivistic and individualistic cultures are frequently forced to live side by side. These cultures can be differentiated by their respective values: thus, independence is highly valued in individualistic cultures while interdependence is identified as a main characteristic of collectivistic cultures. Therefore, individual differences (e.g. personality traits and domains of psychopathology) may show theoretically relevant patterns across these cultural groups. We hypothesized that children from collectivistic cultures, relative to children from individualistic cultures, would present with personality profiles often connected to internalizing disorders. Specifically, we proposed that based on the Five Factor Model these children would score higher on Agreeableness and lower on Extraversion, which is consistent with an internalizing personality profile. We also predicted that children from individualistic cultures, relative to children from collectivistic cultures, would present with personality profiles often connected to externalizing disorders. Specifically, we hypothesized that these children would score higher on Extraversion and lower on Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, which is consistent with an externalizing personality profile. We collected data on a large ethnically diverse community-based sample (N=176) of children in middle childhood (primarily ages 9-10). Multivariate tests showed significant differences in personality profiles of different cultural groups. Differences between internalizing and externalizing personality profiles were consistent with our hypotheses. Heterogeneity of personality profiles exhibited by the members of the collectivistic group questioned the categorical construal of individualism/collectivism. The study contributes to a better understanding of personality profiles and psychopathology predisposition of children of migrants to Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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