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Long-term stability in the Big Five personality traits in adulthood
Johanna RantanenLea PulkkinenRiitta-leena MetsäpeltoKatja KokkoTaru Feldtsubject
AdultMaleAgreeablenessTime Factorsmedia_common.quotation_subjectAlternative five model of personalityConscientiousnessGeneral MedicineBig Five personality traits and culturePersonality AssessmentHierarchical structure of the Big FiveDevelopmental psychologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Developmental and Educational PsychologyOpenness to experienceHumansPersonalityFemaleBig Five personality traitsPsychologyGeneral PsychologyPersonalitymedia_commondescription
This study investigated the stability of the Big Five personality traits in adulthood from age 33 to 42. Participants (89 men, 103 women) were drawn from the ongoing Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development. The results showed that the mean-level of Neuroticism decreased whereas the mean-level of Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness increased from age 33 to 42. The Structural Equation Modeling analyses revealed both gender differences and similarities in the rank-order stability of the Big Five: Neuroticism and Extraversion were more stable in men than in women, whereas Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were as stable in men as in women. Stability coefficients for the Big Five personality traits across 9 years were moderate to high, ranging from 0.73 to 0.97 in men and from 0.65 to 0.95 in women. The highest gender-equal stability was found for Openness to Experience and the lowest for Conscientiousness.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-12-01 | Scandinavian Journal of Psychology |