Stability and change of personality across the life course: the impact of age and major life events on mean-level and rank-order stability of the Big Five.

By Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, S. Schmukle. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Developmental Tasks as a Framework to Study Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age (2014, background): “However, longitudinally, older adults increased in emotional stability but showed comparably strong decreases in the other four traits of the Big Five (Lucas & Donnellan, 2011; Specht et al., 2011; Wortman, Lucas, & Donnellan, 2012).”
What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence (2014, background): “For example, Specht et al. (2011) found that age-graded changes in the work context were associated with personality changes.”
Core and Surface Characteristics for the Description and Theory of Personality Differences and Development (2014, background): “Similarly, metaanalyses and longitudinal studies on representative samples have revealed that levels of rank-order stability in adulthood are lower for measures of SE (Trzesniewski, Donnellan, & Robins, 2003) and LOC (Specht, Egloff, & Schmukle, 2013a) compared with Big Five personality traits (Luca”
Studying Changes in Life Circumstances and Personality: It's about Time (2014, background): “Furthermore, individuals high in extraversion are more likely to move in with their partners in the following four years (Specht et al., 2011a).”
Personality Trait Development During the Transition to Parenthood (2016, result): “These findings are in line with some of the previous studies on personality trait change during the transition to parenthood (Galdiolo & Roskam, 2014; Specht et al., 2011).”
Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings (2018, background): “…of traits remains actively debated in personality sychology, and there is more nuanced evidence: Some events decrease he rank stability, and stability generally follows an inverted U-shape for ost traits, with the most stability between age 40–60 ( Lucas and Don- ellan, 2011; Specht et al., 2011 ).”