Normative personality trait development in adulthood
A 6-year cohort-sequential growth model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Petar Milojev (0000-0002-3218-6888), C G Sibley (0000-0002-4064-8800) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 510-526 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000121 |
| PMID | 27831700 |
| OpenAlex | W2549241389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
The present study investigated patterns of normative change in personality traits across the adult life span (19 through 74 years of age). We examined change in extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience and honesty-humility using data from the first 6 annual waves of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 10,416; 61.1% female, average age = 49.46). We present a cohort-sequential latent growth model assessing patterns of mean-level change due to both aging and cohort effects. Extraversion decreased as people aged, with the most pronounced declines occurring in young adulthood, and then again in old age. Agreeableness, indexed with a measure focusing on empathy, decreased in young adulthood and remained relatively unchanged thereafter. Conscientiousness increased among young adults then leveled off and remained fairly consistent for the rest of the adult life span. Neuroticism and openness to experience decreased as people aged. However, the models suggest that these latter effects may also be partially due to cohort differences, as older people showed lower levels of neuroticism and openness to experience more generally. Honesty-humility showed a pronounced and consistent increase across the adult life span. These analyses of large-scale longitudinal national probability panel data indicate that different dimensions of personality follow distinct developmental processes throughout adulthood. Our findings also highlight the importance of young adulthood (up to about the age of 30) in personality trait development, as well as continuing change throughout the adult life span. (PsycINFO Database Record
Adult Development · Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Cohort · Conscientiousness · Developmental psychology · Extraversion and introversion · Hierarchical structure of the Big Five · Life course approach · Neuroticism · Openness to experience · Personality · Personality development · Young adult · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Medicine · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |