The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency

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ID19280967
AutoresAmanda J Wright (0000-0001-8873-9405, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Washington University in St. Louis Missouri St. Louis USA, autor correspondente), J J Jackson (0000-0002-9490-8890, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Washington University in St. Louis Missouri St. Louis USA)
Ano2024
Volume92
Fascículo1
Páginas162-179
Data de publicação2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jopy.12802
PMID36537588
OpenAlexW4312019009
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

OBJECTIVE: Few environments reliably influence mean-level and rank-order changes in personality-perhaps because personality development needs to be examined through an individualized, person-centered lens. METHODS: The current study used Bayesian multilevel linear models to examine the association between 16 life events and changes in person-centered, Big Five personality consistency across 4 to 10 waves of data using four datasets (N = 24,491). RESULTS: Selection effects were found for events such as marriage, (un)employment, retirement, and volunteering, whereas between-person effects for slopes were found for events such as beginning formal education, employment, and retirement. Within-person changes were often small and emerged inconsistently across datasets but, when present, were brief and negative in direction, suggesting life events can serve as a short-term disruption to the personality system. However, there were many individual differences around event-related trajectories. CONCLUSION: Our results highlight that the effects of life events depend on how personality and its changes are quantified-with these findings underscoring the utility of a person-centered approach as it can capture the full range of these idiosyncrasies. Overall, these findings suggest that life events are associated with a range of idiosyncratic effects and can serve as a short-term, destabilizing shock to one's personality system

Big Five personality traits · Cognitive psychology · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Developmental psychology · Event (particle physics) · Multilevel model · Personality · Personality changes · Personality development · Term (time) · Computer Science · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology