Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

W Bleidorn, T Schwaba, A Zheng… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Past research syntheses provided evidence that personality traits are both stable and
changeable throughout the life span. However, early meta-analytic estimates were …

Life events and personality change: A systematic review and meta-analysis

JL Bühler, U Orth, W Bleidorn… - European Journal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
While there is some evidence for changes in personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-
esteem as a function of life events, effects have been small and inconsistent across studies …

The development of subjective well-being across the life span: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.

S Buecker, M Luhmann, P Haehner, JL Bühler… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
How does subjective well-being (SWB) develop across the life span? Theories and previous
empirical research suggest heterogeneous conclusions regarding this question. Therefore …

Personality trait stability and change

W Bleidorn, CJ Hopwood, MD Back… - Personality …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Personality traits continue to change throughout the lifespan. However, we still know little
about when, why, and how personality traits change. In this paper, we review the current …

Descriptive, predictive and explanatory personality research: Different goals, different approaches, but a shared need to move beyond the Big Few traits

R Mõttus, D Wood, DM Condon… - European Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science—
description, prediction and explanation—and that attaining them often requires different …

Personality across the life span

PT Costa Jr, RR McCrae… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Trait stability and maturation are fundamental principles of contemporary personality
psychology and have been shown to hold across many cultures. However, it has proven …

Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.

R Weidmann, WJ Chopik, RA Ackerman… - Journal of personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering
the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little …

Sixteen going on sixty-six: A longitudinal study of personality stability and change across 50 years.

RI Damian, M Spengler, A Sutu… - Journal of personality …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
How much do people's personalities change or remain stable from high school to
retirement? To address these questions, we used a large US sample (N= 1,795) that …

Age and gender differences in self-esteem—A cross-cultural window.

W Bleidorn, RC Arslan, JJA Denissen… - Journal of personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Research and theorizing on gender and age differences in self-esteem have played a
prominent role in psychology over the past 20 years. However, virtually all empirical …

Life events and personality trait change

W Bleidorn, CJ Hopwood, RE Lucas - Journal of personality, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Theory and research have emphasized the impact of life events on personality trait
change. In this article, we review prospective research on personality trait change in …