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The personality correlates of adults who had imaginary companions in childhood

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dc.contributor.authorKidd, Evan
dc.contributor.authorRogers, Paul Clint
dc.contributor.authorRogers, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:43:58Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T09:37:56Z
dc.description.abstractTwo studies showed that adults who reported having an imaginary companion as a child differed from adults who did not on certain personality dimensions. The first yielded a higher mean on the Gough Creative Personality Scale for the group who had imaginary companions. Study 2 showed that such adults scored higher on the Achievement and Absorption subscales of Tellegen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire. The results suggest that some differences reported in the developmental literature may be observed in adults.
dc.identifier.issn0033-2941
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/79448
dc.publisherCH Ammons
dc.sourcePsychological Reports
dc.subjectKeywords: achievement; adolescent; adult; article; creativity; fantasy; female; human; imagination; intelligence; male; object relation; personality test; psychological aspect; psychometry; social adaptation; statistics; student; United Kingdom; Achievement; Adoles
dc.titleThe personality correlates of adults who had imaginary companions in childhood
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage172
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage163
local.contributor.affiliationKidd, Evan, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationRogers, Paul Clint, University of Central Lancashire
local.contributor.affiliationRogers, Christine, University of Bolton
local.contributor.authoruidKidd, Evan, u3214968
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor170100 - PSYCHOLOGY
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB7887
local.identifier.citationvolume107
local.identifier.doi10.2466/pr0.107.1.163-172
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-77956570419
local.type.statusPublished Version

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