There's not actually very compelling evidence that peer groups shape personality -- although it was a reasonable hypothesis 20 years ago.
Actual psychology: personality comes mostly from genes plus noise. Psych-adjacent fields (life coaching, self-help, New Age therapies): personality comes from unresolved childhood trauma & maladaptive parenting. The persistence of Freudianism never ceases to astound me.
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Pretty sure maladaptive parenting has a lot to answer for....or is this just wrong?
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Surprisingly, it seems to be largely wrong.
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The Kaiser study of ACEs shows a pretty strong dose-response relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences with later life negative health outcomes. Some of it is genes, but it's pretty f'n crazy to assume the events have no impact. Oh well, not easy to think both/and I guess.
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I thought I was talking about personality traits, not health outcomes. Thanks for correcting me.
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The evidence says virtually no effect of shared family environment or GxE interactions for personality traits.
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Have you ever come across any good psych discussion on sports and getting into the zone?
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I haven't, but I'm interested.
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