Personality Trait Change in Adulthood

By B. Roberts, D. Mroczek. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Back to the Future: Personality and Assessment and Personality Development. (2009, background): “Second, these dominant models of personality have a small empirical problem to confront; personality traits demonstrate both continuity and change (Mroczek & Spiro, 2003; Roberts & Mroczek, 2008; Roberts, Wood, & Smith, 2005).”
Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach to understanding the mind and behaviour (2010, background): “…the psychology of members of the nation including their personalities (e.g. social maturity and embodying the characteristics valued in society; Roberts & Mroczek, 2008; see also Markus & Kitayama, 1994), and mind and brain (see Kitayama & Uskul, in press for a review of cultural…”
Core Self-Evaluations and Work Success (2009, background): “Most broad traits have a genetic origin and show significant stability, but traits also show evidence of mean-level and rankorder change (Roberts & Mroczek, 2008).”
What Predicts Positive Life Events that Influence the Course of Depression? A Longitudinal Examination of Gratitude and Meaning in Life (2017, background): “Research has shown that personality changes in response to life events and role changes (Mroczek and Spiro 2003; Roberts and Mroczek 2008; Roberts and Capsi 2003).”
Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, background): “These 320 W O R L D D E V E L O P M E N T ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND ENTRY INTO SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG UNIVERSITY GRADUATES 321 observed changes are consistent with the fact that personality has been shown to be particularly malleable among young adults (Roberts & Mroczek, 2008).”
Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures (2020, background): “Of course, such changes are rare and slow (e.g. Lüdtke, Roberts, Trautwein, & Nagy, 2011; Roberts & Mroczek, 2008; Roberts, Walton, & Viechtbauer, 2006), but if they occurred, one would have to expect state changes—and thus decreased reliability estimates.”
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions (2014, background): “…lifespan, and although trait stability over the lifespan is indeed high (Terracciano, Costa, & McCrae, 2006), recent research has shown that personality can and does change in response to certain life transitions, including those related to work, health and relationships (Roberts & Mroczek, 2008).”
A Systematic Review of Personality Trait Change Through Intervention (2017, background): “Personality traits not only show robust evidence for change across the life course, but also show meaningful changes in relation to life experiences (Roberts & Mroczek, 2008).”
Agreement and Similarity in Self-Other Perceptions of Moral Character (2013, background): “Personality and moral character traits change throughout adulthood (Orth, Robins, & Soto, 2010; Roberts & Mroczek, 2008), so it is important to sample adults of all ages to ensure generalizability of findings across different age groups.”
Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness (2011, background): “Studies investigating individual differences in personality trait change have found that certain life experiences are associated with changes in adult personality (see review in Roberts and Mroczek, 2008).”
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): “Specifically, this means that (a) a large sample size is needed to enable the investigation of even small changes with adequate statistical power; (b) characteristics of the participants, such as their age and education, should be heterogeneous enough to enable the generalization of results to the…”