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Personality trait development from age 12 to age 18: Longitudinal, cross-sectional, and cross-cultural analyses
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Three studies were conducted to assess mean level changes in personality traits during adolescence. Versions of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (P. T. Costa, Jr., & R. R. McCrae, 1992a) were used to assess the 5 major personality factors. A 4-year longitudinal study of intellectually gifted students (N = 230) was supplemented by cross-sectional studies of nonselected American (N = 1,959) and Flemish (N = 789) adolescents. Personality factors were reasonably invariant across ages, although rank-order stability of individual differences was low. Neuroticism appeared to increase in girls, and Openness to Experience increased in both boys and girls; mean levels of Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were stable. Results extend knowledge of the developmental curve of personality traits backward from adulthood and help bridge the gap with child temperament studies.
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“Openness to experience, relative to other major personality traits, increases dramatically between ages 12 to 16 (McCrae et al., 2002), driven primarily by an increased appreciation of aesthetics and alternative value systems.”
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- Authors
- McCrae, R. R., Costa, P. T., Terracciano, A., Parker, W. D., Mills, C. J., De Fruyt, F., & Mervielde, I.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1456-1468
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2069214083
- Cited by
- 499
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (Z99 AG999999)
- National Institute on Aging (ZIAAG000180, ZIAAG000183)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- adolescence, Big Five personality traits, neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, rank-order stability, gender differences, cross-cultural comparison, Flemish adolescents
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Belgium, Child, Child, Gifted, Cross-Sectional Studies, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Personality Development, Personality Inventory, United States, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution
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