"Over two years, Montreal students in grades 1, 4 and 7 completed
peer evaluations of their classmates and rated them in terms of
aggression, likeability and social withdrawal. The students also did
self-evaluations."
Over the next twenty years, these children were closely followed as
researchers used the exhaustive longitudinal study to track their
progress into adulthood. A follow-up survey was conducted between 1999
and 2003 with nearly 700 of the participants from the initial study. The
survey included measurement of adult personality traits, such as levels
of neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and
conscientiousness.
"We were able to compare peer and self-perceptions of the childhood
behaviours to these adult personality factors," says Martin-Storey.
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