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Person-Centered Profile Consistency: A Test Of Longitudinal Personality Consistency, Amanda Wright Aug 2021

Person-Centered Profile Consistency: A Test Of Longitudinal Personality Consistency, Amanda Wright

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Test-retest correlations are a common way to quantify stability in personality. However, these single estimates obscure patterns of consistency as well as individual differences in consistency. Importantly, examining patterns of consistency provides insights into the underlying processes driving personality development. The current study used Bayesian multilevel asymptotic models to examine trends of person-centered consistency using item-level profile correlations across four to nine waves with four datasets (N = 21,616). Results indicated that there were, on average, very high levels of profile consistency across time, highlighting one aspect of the stable nature of personality. There were notable individual differences in …


Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck May 2019

Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck

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Across the lifespan, personality changes in normative ways, but the source of such change remains ambiguous. Life events may be one impetus of such change, but strong selection effects into such events makes it unclear whether such change is driven by already existing differences (selection) between people or socialization following life events. In a preregistered study, we test socialization and selection effects of the Big 5 and life events using a large (N = 19,627) representative sample of Germans and 12 life events (e.g. marriage, retirement) from the GSOEP. Using propensity score matching and Bayesian multilevel growth curve models, we …


The Developmental Interplay Of Personality And Relationship Quality In Young Adulthood, Kelci Harris Aug 2017

The Developmental Interplay Of Personality And Relationship Quality In Young Adulthood, Kelci Harris

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I used the framework of the personality-relationship transaction to examine the co-development of personality and relationship quality during college in three different relationship contexts: an aggregate of friends, romantic partner dyads, and friend dyads. I treat the personality-relationship transaction as a dyadic process, rather than an ego-centric one, by including friends’ and romantic partners’ reports of personality and relationship quality. I created a multivariate latent growth curve model version of the Actor Partner Interdependence Model to test how personality and relationship quality co-developed. Initial correlations between personality and relationship quality reflect what is seen in previous work; self-reported extraversion, agreeableness, …