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Co-Development of Personality and Friendships Across the Lifespan
Cornelia WrzusFranz J. Neyersubject
media_common.quotation_subjectPersonality development05 social sciencesSocialization050109 social psychologyhumanities050105 experimental psychologyDevelopmental psychologyFriendshipEmpirical researchArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Transactional leadershipPersonality0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesYoung adultBig Five personality traitsPsychologySocial psychologyGeneral Psychologymedia_commondescription
Abstract. This article examines changes in the co-development of personality characteristics and friendships across the lifespan. We address how personality traits shape friendship development (i.e., selection effects) and how friendships shape personality traits (i.e., socialization effects). By integrating separate empirical studies, we look at how selection and socialization effects change across the lifespan. A review of longitudinal research supports our hypothesis that selection effects on friendships intensify during adolescence, peak in young adulthood, and diminish throughout middle and late adulthood. Socialization effects through friendships seem to be moderately sized during adolescence, then small to negligible from young adulthood onwards. For future directions, we discuss effects of the transactional development of friendships and personality regarding associated dispositions within individuals, associated individuals within friendship dyads, and individuals associated within wider social networks.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-01 | European Psychologist |