Developmental Tasks as a Framework to Study Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age

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Core and Surface Characteristics for the Description and Theory of Personality Differences and Development (2014, background): “They may change to reflect normative and idiosyncratic shifts in the social ecology of daily life (Hutteman et al., 2014; McAdams & Olson, 2010).”
What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence (2014, background): “…if a large proportion of individuals were confronted with similarly personality-impacting major life experiences at similar ages, mean-level changes in personality over this age range would result (this idea is reminiscent of the developmental tasks that are discussed by Hutteman et al., 2014).”
Do People’s Desires to Change Their Personality Traits Vary With Age? An Examination of Trait Change Goals Across Adulthood (2016, background): “Another implication of our study is that the traits individuals wish to change may vary as a function of their current developmental tasks (Hennecke et al., 2014; Hudson & Roberts, 2014; Hutteman et al., 2014).”