Age differences in personality traits across cultures: self‐report and observer perspectives

By R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa, M. Hřebíčková, T. Urbánek, Thomas A. Martin, Valery E. Oryol, A. A. Rukavishnikov, I. Senin. 2004

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Big Five personality development in adolescence and adulthood (2007, result): “These findings contrast with cross-sectional results of McCrae et al. (2004), who found that other-reported and self-reported personality characteristics generally changed in the same direction.”
The Dual Route to Value Change: Individual Processes and Cultural Moderators (2011, background): “For example, across cultures, levels of the trait openness to experience tend to decrease from adolescence to adulthood (McCrae et al., 2004).”
Personality development from 12 to 18 years of age: changes in mean levels and structure of traits (2004, background): “In general, despite some interesting and relatively small cross-cultural variations, there appear to be pan-cultural trends in personality (Costa & McCrae, 2002; McCrae et al., 2004).”
Other-rated personality and academic performance: Evidence and implications (2014, background): “The fact that Conscientiousness increases with age (McCrae et al., 2004) implies that it may be amenable to development or remediation, offering encouragement to strategies targeted at developing students' related abilities.”