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Personality Plasticity After Age 30
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Rank-order consistency of personality traits increases from childhood to age 30. After that, different summaries of the literature predict a plateau at age 30, or at age 50, or a curvilinear peak in consistency at age 50. These predictions were evaluated at group and individual levels using longitudinal data from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory for periods of up to 42 years. Consistency declined toward a nonzero asymptote with increasing time interval. Although some scales showed increasing stability after age 30, the rank-order consistencies of the major dimensions and most facets of the Five-Factor Model were unrelated to age. Ipsative stability, assessed with the California Adult Q-Set, also was unrelated to age. These data strengthen claims of predominant personality stability after age 30.
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- Terracciano, A., Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 999-1009
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2156749267
- Cited by
- 459
- References
- 52
- FWCI
- 18.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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