中文摘要：

作为一种新兴的研究思路，人格类型已被广泛应用于青少年人格研究中。本文首先回顾了人格类型的起源和优势。其次介绍了青少年人格类型的发展特征。再次介绍人格类型与青少年社会性发展关键变量的关系。最后提出探索其它的人格类型、人格类型的本土化研究、个人中心与变量中心相结合的研究思路、人格类型和网络心理与行为的关系或可成为青少年人格心理学的研究取向。

英文摘要：

Personality is an everlasting topic in psychological research. Adolescence has been a key period of personality development and many researchers paid attention to it. Previous studies have mostly used variable-centered approach and extensively explored the relationship between specific personality traits and individuals＇ developmental outcomes. As such research progressed, the person-centered approach gradually showed more advantages because it can synthetically reflect the interaction between personality traits. This study reviewed literatures about personality types and adolescents＇ development and exlored two aspects. The first is to introduce the developmental characteristics of adolescents＇ personality types; the second is to introduce the relationship between adolescents＇ personality types and the key variables of adolescents＇ development. Block （1971） first put forward three personality types. Drawing on Block＇s work, Robins et al. （1996） clustered the Big Five into three personality types： resilients, undercontrollers, and overcontrollers. The personality type of resilients was described as of lower neuroticism, higher extraversion and conscientiousness; overcontrollers of lower extraversion and higher neuroticism; undercontrollers of lower agreeableness and conscientiousness. There are three advantages of the typology research on personality. First, the three personality types provide an efficient classification system and taxonomy for personality research. Second, the typology research on personality is a person-centered approach. Finally, personality types, as moderators, help researchers investigate the effect of personality on individuals＇ behaviors more comprehensively. It is important to understand the stability and diversity of adolescents＇ personality types. Personality types are relatively stable across gender and age. There are two main developmental trends of personality types during adolescence： undercontrollers transiting to resilients and overcontrollers transi