Abstract
Personality stability is a complex concept, in part because both personality and stability have been conceptualized in many different ways. The adoption of the Big Five as the benchmark model of personality provided a framework for the accumulation of evidence regarding personality stability. The best understanding of stability is achieved by looking across different types of stability, assessed in many studies. Evidence to date shows that personality can change at every point in the lifespan, and never reaches perfect stability. At the same time, evidence suggests that personality becomes more stable as we age, reaching a peak of stability sometime after age 50. Many questions, including the mechanisms that drive personality stability, remain largely open for future research to investigate.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |
| Subtitle of host publication | Model and Theories: Measurement and Assessment: Personality Processes and Individual Differences: Clinical, Applied, and Cross-Cultural Research: Volume 1-4 |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 329-333 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 1-4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118970843 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118970744 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
Keywords
- Big Five
- corresponsive effect
- mean-level change
- personality change
- personality stability
- rank-order stability
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