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Hypotheses about mean-level age differences in the Big Five personality domains, as well 10 more specific facet traits within those were tested a very large cross-sectional sample (N = 1,267,218) of children, adolescents, and adults (ages 10-65) assessed over World Wide Web. The results supported several conclusions. First, late childhood adolescence key periods. Across these years, trends for some (a) especially pronounced, (b) direction different from corresponding adult trends, or (c)...
How do youths' personality reports differ from those of adults? To identify the year-by-year timing developmental trends late childhood (age 10) to early adulthood 20), authors examined Big Five self-report data a large and diverse Internet sample. At younger ages within this range, there were individual differences in acquiescent responding, acquiescence variability had pronounced effects on psychometric characteristics. Beyond acquiescence, self-reports generally became more coherent...
The Big Five personality traits have been linked to dozens of life outcomes. However, metascientific research has raised questions about the replicability behavioral science. Life Outcomes Personality Replication (LOOPR) Project was therefore conducted estimate personality-outcome literature. Specifically, I preregistered, high-powered (median N = 1,504) replications 78 previously published trait-outcome associations. Overall, 87% replication attempts were statistically significant in...
Like adults, children and adolescents can be described in terms of personality traits: characteristic patterns thinking, feeling, behaving. We review recent research examining how youths’ specific behavioral tendencies cohere into broader traits, these traits develop across childhood adolescence, they relate to important biological, social, health outcomes. conclude that there are both key similarities differences between youth adult help shape the course their lives, a full understanding...
We examine whether individual differences in needs for security and certainty predict conservative (vs. liberal) position on both cultural economic political issues these effects are conditional nation-level characteristics individual-level engagement. Analyses with cross-national data from 51 nations reveal that valuing conformity, security, tradition over self-direction stimulation (a) predicts ideological self-placement the right, but only among people high engagement within relatively...
The present research examined longitudinal relations of the Big Five personality traits with three core aspects subjective well-being: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. Latent growth models autoregressive were used to analyze data from a large, nationally representative sample 16,367 Australian residents. Concurrent change correlations indicated that higher levels well-being associated Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, lower Neuroticism. Moreover,...
The right–left dimension is ubiquitous in politics, but prior perspectives provide conflicting accounts of whether cultural and economic attitudes are typically aligned on this within mass publics around the world. Using survey data from ninety-nine nations, study finds not only that attitude organization uncommon, it more common for culturally economically right-wing to correlate negatively with each other, an structure reflecting a contrast between desires protection vs. freedom . This...
Abstract. The present study investigates the validity and utility of German adaptations two short forms Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2), 30-item BFI-2-S, 15-item BFI-2-XS, developed by Soto John (2017b) . Both scales assess domains. BFI-2-S allows, in addition, brief assessment three facets per domain. Based on a large heterogeneous sample, we show that psychometric properties these adapted are consistent with those Anglo-American source versions, demonstrate substantial convergence between...
People differ in their social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills: capacities to maintain social relationships, regulate emotions, manage goal- learning-directed behaviors. In five studies using data from seven independent samples (N = 6,309), we address three key questions about the nature, structure, assessment, outcomes of SEB skills. First, how can skills be defined distinguished other kinds psychological constructs, such as personality traits? We propose that represent someone is...
The authors examined age differences in shame, guilt, and 2 forms of pride (authentic hubristic) from 13 years to 89 years, using cross-sectional data 2,611 individuals. Shame decreased adolescence into middle adulthood, reaching a nadir around 50 then increased old age. Guilt age, plateau at about 70 years. Authentic whereas hubristic minimum 65 On average, women reported experiencing more shame guilt; Blacks less Asians than other ethnicities. Across the life span, tended be negatively...
Data from a cross-sectional sample (N = 601 men and women) longitudinal 125 were used to test hypotheses about the development of Big Five domains facets early adulthood through middle age. Analyses mean-level age trends indicated that overall Agreeableness Conscientiousness increased with several showed distinctive replicated across samples. Cross-sectional analyses trait intercorrelations covariances interrelations between domains, their more specific facets, quite similar at older versus...
The present research pursues three major goals. First, we develop scales to measure the Little Six youth personality dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness Experience, and Activity. Second, examine mean-level age gender differences in from early childhood into adulthood. Third, development of more specific nuance traits. We analyze parent reports, made using common-language California Child Q-Set (CCQ), for a cross-sectional sample 16,000 target...
Zusammenfassung. Die deutsche Version des Big Five Inventars 2 (BFI-2) erfasst die 5 Persönlichkeitsdomänen Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Negative Emotionalität (Neurotizismus) und Offenheit sowie insgesamt 15 Persönlichkeitsfacetten mit 60 Items. Das Inventar wurde im Rahmen eines mehrstufigen Übersetzungsprozesses vom Englischen ins Deutsche übertragen. Anhand einer nach Alter, Geschlecht Bildungsabschluss quotieren Bevölkerungsstichprobe ( N = 1 224) wurden...
Abstract The present research was conducted to map the hierarchical structure of youths' personality traits, identify foundational level this structure, and test whether meanings some youth dimensions shift with age. We addressed these issues by analyzing parent reports describing a cross‐sectional sample 16,000 children, adolescents, young adults (ages 3 20). These were made using broadband measure personal characteristics, common‐language C alifornia hild Q ‐ S et. Analyses full...
Success in life is influenced by more than cognitive ability and opportunity. also social, emotional, behavioral (SEB) skills: a person’s capacities to maintain social relationships, regulate emotions, manage goal- learning-directed behaviors. In this article, we propose an integrative model that defines SEB skills as (what someone capable of doing) rather personality traits tends do) identifies five major skill domains: engagement, cooperation, self-management, emotional resilience,...
The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) has received wide recognition since its publication because it strikes a good balance between content coverage and brevity. current study translated the BFI-2 into Chinese, evaluated psychometric properties in four diverse Chinese samples (college students, adult employees, adults treated for substance use, adolescents), compared factor structure with those obtained from two U.S. samples. Across studies, demonstrated reliability (Cronbach’s α test–retest...
The Big Five personality traits have been linked with a broad range of consequential life outcomes. present research systematically tested whether such trait–outcome associations generalize across gender, age, ethnicity, and analytic approaches that control for demographic covariates. Analyses nationally representative samples from the Life Outcomes Personality Replication project ( N = 6,126) indicated (a) most do ethnicity; (b) controlling overlap between substantially reduces strength...
Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills encompass a wide range of competencies related to how individuals build maintain relationships, understand manage emotions, pursue goals, learn from experience. Despite near-consensus on the importance SEB for success in life, there are numerous frameworks that simultaneously converge diverge they define measure skills. In this article, we discuss our integrative model encompassing five broad skill domains: Self-Management, Innovation, Social...
Abstract Associations between personality traits and life outcomes are usually studied using the Big Five domains and, occasionally, their facets. But recent research suggests these associations may be driven by items (reflecting nuances) chosen to measure traits. Using a large dataset ( N = 6126), we examined with 53 self‐reported domains, facets (markers for nuances), training validating models in different sample partitions. Facets better predicted than (on average, 18.0% versus 16.6% of...
Personality traits and social, emotional, behavioral (SEB) skills share the same referents, but whereas refer to a person’s typical or average performance, their capacity maximal performance. Given shared foundations, an important question address is whether personality SEB independently predict outcomes. In this study (N = 642), we examined subscales of Behavioral, Emotional, Social Skills Inventory (BESSI), measure skills, provided incremental validity in prediction ACT composite score,...
Personality traits and social, emotional, behavioral (SEB) skills are closely related but incrementally predict life outcomes. This implies that although tightly connected, what a person tends to do (personality traits) they capable of doing (skills) not always perfectly aligned. In this study, we investigated whether matches mismatches between important We studied diverse sample high school students ( N = 840) who self-reported their Big Five personality traits, five SEB skill domains, an...