Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: set like plaster or persistent change?

By S. Srivastava, Oliver P. John, Samuel D. Gosling, J. Potter. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Key skills for the 21st century: An evidence-based review (2017, background): “Conscientiousness, like other personality traits, is a complex construct shaped by a range of developmental influences (Srivastava et al., 2003) and associated with a range of social factors (Furnham & Cheng, 2014).”
Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. (2006, background): “Specifically, older individuals scored higher on agreeableness and conscientiousness and lower on extraversion , neuroticism, and openness (see also Srivastava et al., 2003).”
Global Consumer Innovativeness: Cross-Country Differences and Demographic Commonalities (2009, background): “Although some researchers suggest that individual traits are “hard wired” and not subject to change (e.g., Eysenck and Eysenck 1985), more recent thinking suggests that personality traits develop over time and are subject to contextual influences (e.g., Srivastava et al. 2003).”
Older workers motivation to continue to work: five meanings of age: A conceptual review (2008, result): “Caprara et al., 2003) seems to disagree with this statement, showing that personality changes across the lifespan ( Srivastava et al., 2003 ).”
Conscientiousness and Health across the Life Course (2005, result): “This finding was replicated in a large cross-sectional Internet sample in which it was shown that conscientiousness continued to increase beyond the age of 30 years ( Srivastava, John, Gosling, & Potter, 2003 ).”
Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People” and “Cat People” (2010, background): “Participants were 4,565 volunteers who provided personality and demographic information over the World Wide Web, as part of the Gosling-Potter Internet Personality Project (see Srivastava et al. 2003).”
Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnaires. (2004, methodology): “…open in order to participate If there was any openness-related sampling bias, it was sufﬁciently weak that it did not overwhelm the age effects Srivastava et al. (2003) also tested another potential age-related sampling bias If older people in the sample were unusually high in…”
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. (2011, background): “In their cross-sectional approach, Srivastava et al. (2003) found differences in all personality traits after age 30 as well.”
The internet as psychological laboratory. (2006, methodology): “Srivastava et al. (2003) translated the typical paper-and-pencil version of the Big Five personality inventory to a Web-based form to test competing predictions from biological and contextualist accounts of personality.”
Development of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (2006, methodology): “…body of evidence suggests that web-based data collection leads to responses similar to those collected using more traditional methods of administering questionnaires across a variety of constructs and content domains (e.g., Pasveer and Ellard 1998; Buchanan and Smith 1999; Srivastava et al. 2003).”
Big Five personality development in adolescence and adulthood (2007, background): “Extraversion and Conscientiousness change strongly from age 18 to 30 years and more slowly thereafter (Costa & McCrae, 1994, 1997; McCrae et al., 1999; Srivastava et al., 2003; Vaidya et al., 2002).”
The Relationship of Extraversion and Neuroticism with Risk Attitude, Risk Perception, and Return Expectations (2018, methodology): “3 However, some studies did not find a significant correlation between extraversion and age (Allemand, Zimprich, & Hendriks, 2008; Oehler et al., 2017; Soto et al., 2011; Srivastava et al., 2003).”
Development of shy/bold behaviour in squid: context-specific phenotypes associated with developmental plasticity (2008, background): “…phenotypes via positive feedback loops with the environment, and studies from the human personality literature generally support this idea, as stability correlations for personality tend to increase systematically with age (Roberts & DelVecchio 2000; Srivastava et al. 2003; Caspi et al. 2005).”