The stability of your personality peaks in mid-life (then grows increasingly wobbly again)

This report further highlights the need to test ... the effects of events that might cause the lower stability [of personality] in younger and older adulthood," the researchers said. "In addition our finding of systematically different peaks in stability between different personality dimensions suggest the need to further investigate age-specific changes in environmental and social pressures that are associated with such domain-specific effects."_________________________________ Milojev, P., & Sibley, C. (2014). The stability of adult personality varies across age: Evidence from a two-year longitudinal sample of adult New Zealanders Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 29-37 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.04.005 --further reading--How your mood changes your personalityWhy are extraverts happier?Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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