How Are Common Major Life Events Perceived? Exploring Differences Between and Variability of Different Typical Event Profiles and Raters

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fncz3
• Publication Date: 2021-05-03T17:04:51Z
• Authors: Sarah Kritzler; Andrew Rakhshani; Sophia Terwiel; Ina Fassbender; Brent Donnellan; Richard E. Lucas; Maike Luhmann
• Keywords: Allgemeines, Sonstiges; Psychologie; 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

Research on major life events and personality change often focuses the occurrence of specific such as childbirth, unemployment, or divorce. However, this typical approach has three important limitations: (1) Life are typically measured categorically, (2) it is assumed that people experience from same event in way, (3) external ratings have unknown levels validity. To address these limitations, we examined how common perceived, much perceptions vary within events, well correspond to subjective who experienced events. We analyzed nine psychologically relevant characteristics 10 different types raters (N = 2,210). Each had a distinct subjectively rated profile corresponded ratings. Collectively, study demonstrates can be meaningfully described differentiated with characteristics. people’s individual varied considerably even Therefore, research their associations should incorporate advance understanding associations.