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View article: Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis
Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis Open
Life events have been theorized to elicit personality trait changes. However, the empirical evidence for event-related personality development remains inconclusive. Even comprehensive reviews and meta-analyses are limited by the availabili…
View article: Person-Related Selection Bias in Mobile Sensing Research: Robust Findings from Two Panel Studies
Person-Related Selection Bias in Mobile Sensing Research: Robust Findings from Two Panel Studies Open
In psychology, mobile sensing is increasingly used to record behavior in real-life situations.However, little is known about the selectivity of samples participating in these new datacollection approaches and thus about potential risks to …
View article: Life Satisfaction, Loneliness, and Depressivity in Consistently Single Young Adults In Germany and the UK
Life Satisfaction, Loneliness, and Depressivity in Consistently Single Young Adults In Germany and the UK Open
Young adults increasingly abstain from committed romantic relationships. However, psychological theories of singlehood are lacking and it remains unclear who selects into remaining single throughout emerging adulthood and how consistent si…
View article: Personality traits and provision of grandparental childcare: Evidence from Europe
Personality traits and provision of grandparental childcare: Evidence from Europe Open
Past research has explored various factors associated with grandparental childcare but has overlooked the role of personality traits. We address this gap by analyzing the association between personality traits and grandparental childcare u…
View article: Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales
Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales Open
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill basic affiliation needs. To describe how these needs are regulated, theories connect daily-life processes of social contact, social desire, and affect. Still, such process…
View article: Life events and personality trait change: A coordinated data analysis
Life events and personality trait change: A coordinated data analysis Open
Life events have been theorized to elicit personality trait changes. However, the empirical evidence for event-related personality development remains inconclusive. Even comprehensive reviews and meta-analyses are limited by the availabili…
View article: Stability and Change in Lower-Order Personality Traits in a Representative Swiss Sample
Stability and Change in Lower-Order Personality Traits in a Representative Swiss Sample Open
Personality development has become one of the most-widely studied topics in personality science. However, existing research has mostly focused on the Big Five domains, typically measured across long intervals between assessments using data…
View article: Validating the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) and the Short Form (BFAS-40) in German, French, and Italian
Validating the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) and the Short Form (BFAS-40) in German, French, and Italian Open
Personality traits predict health, well-being, relationship success, and work-related outcomes, but most of the relevant evidence comes from English-speaking populations. The Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) are one of the most used English-l…
View article: Personality traits are less stable than people think
Personality traits are less stable than people think Open
Researchers and laypeople alike have traditionally viewed personality as being highly stable across the lifespan. Although years of recent research supports personality’s malleability, it is unclear how lifespan changes in personality trai…
View article: What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects?
What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects? Open
V olitional personality change interventions have been shown to help people change theircurrent personality towards their ideal personality. Here, we address three limitations of thisliterature. First, we contrast the dominant theoretical …
View article: How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time
How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time Open
Spousal bereavement is one of the most disruptive life events encountered during adulthood. However, we know little about whether and how the impacts of spousal loss on well-being have changed over the past decades. To examine such histori…
View article: A replication attempt of personality change through randomized peer groups
A replication attempt of personality change through randomized peer groups Open
Personality development theories and descriptive evidence highlight young adulthood as a period conducive to personality change. Young adults experience important transitions, such as starting university education, and establish new relati…
View article: What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects?
What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects? Open
V olitional personality change interventions have been shown to help people change theircurrent personality towards their ideal personality. Here, we address three limitations of thisliterature. First, we contrast the dominant theoretical …
View article: A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups
A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups Open
Personality development theories and descriptive evidence highlight young adulthood as a period conducive to personality change. Young adults experience important transitions, such as starting university education, and establish new relati…
View article: Personality traits are less stable than people think
Personality traits are less stable than people think Open
Researchers and laypeople alike have traditionally viewed personality as being highly stable across the lifespan. Although recent research has supported personality’s malleability, it is unclear how lifespan changes in personality traits c…
View article: Validating the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) and the Short Form (BFAS-S) in German, French, and Italian
Validating the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) and the Short Form (BFAS-S) in German, French, and Italian Open
Personality traits predict health, well-being, relationship success, and work-related outcomes, but most of the relevant evidence comes from English-speaking populations. The Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) are one of the most used English-l…
View article: Informal care and personality: Selection and socialization effects
Informal care and personality: Selection and socialization effects Open
Informal caregiving provides societally important healthcare functions but can take a toll on caregivers, with negative consequences for well-being. However, little is known about other psychological effects of informal caregiving and thei…
View article: Informal Care and Personality: Selection and Socialization Effects
Informal Care and Personality: Selection and Socialization Effects Open
Informal caregiving provides societally important healthcare functions but can take a toll on caregivers, with negative consequences for well-being. However, little is known about other psychological effects of informal caregiving and thei…
View article: Transactions between Personality Traits and First Sexual Experiences in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Transactions between Personality Traits and First Sexual Experiences in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Open
There is some evidence linking personality traits to the experience of life events inadolescence and emerging adulthood. However, the role of one key life event marking theselife stages has not been examined within this context: the first …
View article: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LIFELONG SINGLES AND PARTNERED INDIVIDUALS IN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND LIFE SATISFACTION
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LIFELONG SINGLES AND PARTNERED INDIVIDUALS IN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND LIFE SATISFACTION Open
Being romantically partnered is widely seen as societal norm, and has been shown to be positively associated with important life outcomes, such as physical and mental health. However, the percentage of singles is steadily increasing, with …
View article: Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis
Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis Open
Life events have been theorized to elicit personality trait changes. However, the empirical evidence for event-related personality development remains inconclusive. Even comprehensive reviews and meta-analyses are limited by the availabili…
View article: The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving Open
How does informal care affect caregivers’ well-being? Theories and existing research provide conflicting answers to this question, partly because the temporal processes and conditions under which different aspects of well-being are affecte…
View article: Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Open
Being romantically partnered is widely seen as a societal norm, and it has been shown to be positively associated with important life outcomes, such as physical and mental health. However, the percentage of singles is steadily increasing, …
View article: Individual Differences in Event-Related Personality Changes: A Systematic Review and Coordinated Data Analysis
Individual Differences in Event-Related Personality Changes: A Systematic Review and Coordinated Data Analysis Open
Life events have been theorized to cause personality trait changes. However, people differ in their personality trait trajectories after experiencing important life events. Although several studies have examined the sources of these indivi…
View article: A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups
A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups Open
Personality development theories and descriptive evidence highlight young adulthood as a period conducive to personality change. Young adults experience important transitions, such as starting university education, and establish new relati…
View article: What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects?
What Explains Personality Change Intervention Effects? Open
V olitional personality change interventions have been shown to help people change theircurrent personality towards their ideal personality. Here, we address three limitations of thisliterature. First, we contrast the dominant theoretical …
View article: Personality Change Through Self-Improvement or Self-Acceptance: A Multi-Study Approach Accounting for Expectancy and Demand Effects
Personality Change Through Self-Improvement or Self-Acceptance: A Multi-Study Approach Accounting for Expectancy and Demand Effects Open
Volitional personality change interventions have been shown to help people change their current personality towards their ideal personality. Here, we address three limitations of this literature. First, we contrast the dominant theoretical…
View article: A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups
A Replication Attempt of Personality Change Through Randomized Peer Groups Open
Personality development theories and descriptive evidence highlight young adulthood as a period conducive to personality change. Young adults experience important transitions, such as starting university education, and establish new relati…
View article: The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving Open
How does informal care affect caregivers’ well-being? Theories and existing research provide conflicting answers to this question, partly because the temporal processes and conditions under which different aspects of well-being are affecte…
View article: Persons in Contexts: The Role of Social Networks and Social Density for the Dynamic Regulation of Face-to-face Interactions in Daily Life
Persons in Contexts: The Role of Social Networks and Social Density for the Dynamic Regulation of Face-to-face Interactions in Daily Life Open
Current psychological theories on daily social interactions emphasize individual differences yet are underspecified regarding contextual factors. We aim to extend this research by examining how two context factors shape social interactions…