自信曲线

明天上课要讨论几篇文章，今天加紧看。有关个性发展，没什么新的，不过看着也有趣。抄几句：

Before about age 7 or 8, children's self-esteem seems to be uniformly high. But thereafter it begins to drop and show more-or-less consistent individual differences. Put differently, most first- and second-graders feel pretty good about themselves. By the time they hit fourth or fifth grade, however, some feel much better about themselves than do others, and the mean level of self-esteem for the whole group has, correspondingly, gone down as well...

Emerging adulthood marks a relative stabilization in dispositional traits, a recovery in self-esteem, and the beginning of an upward swing for agreeableness and conscientiousness. An emerging adults eventually come to take on the roles of spouse, parent, citizen, and stakeholder, their traits may shift upward in the direction of greater warmth and care for others, higher levels of social responsibility, and greater dedication to being productive, hard working, and reliable...

McAdams, D.P., & Adler, J.M. (2006)

看完以后觉得好奇，不知道有没有人把一辈子的self-esteem，所谓自信，用曲线画下来呢。没用一分钟，这条线还真让我找到了，而且还是两条，男女各一条。呵呵。