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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2002 Jul;38(4):591–603. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.38.4.591

Table 5.

Personality Profiles in Adulthood and Indices of Adjustment

Adjustment
variable		 Low agree,
low social,
low impulse		 High agree,
low social,
low impulse		 Low agree,
high social,
low impulse		 Type:
High agree,
high social,
low impulse		 Type:
Low agree,
low social,
high impulse		 High agree,
low social,
high impulse		 Antitype:
Low agree,
high social,
high impulse		 High agree,
high social,
high impulse
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Alcoholism 1.54 2.0 1.15 1.2 0.56b 1.0 0.57b 1.3 2–41a 2.0 1.74 2.0 1.32 1.4 0.87b 1.4
Arrests 0.64 1.0 0.07 0.3 0.33 1.0 0.24b 0.8 3.84a 9.7 1.15 2.1 0.85 1.5 0.10b 0.3
Career stability 2.57 0.9 2.21 0.8 2.44 0.8 2.67a 0.5 2.07b 0.9 2.20 0.7 2.74 0.7 2.60 0.7
Depression 1.54 0.3 1.49 0.3 1.39 0.3 1.29b 0.3 1.55a 0.3 1.64 0.3 1.35 0.3 1.37 0.3

Note. Across rows, means with different subscripts differ significantly at p < .05 in Tukey’s honestly significant difference comparisons. agree = agreeableness; social = socialization; impulse = impulsivity.