Rank-Order Consistency of Personality Traits Over Time
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Personality, Aging, Human development, Personality testsAbstract
Evidence has indicated that personality develops over time, generating changes and continuity in the pattern of individual functioning throughout the life span. In this research, we tested these evidences, aiming to investigate the consistency in the ranking order of personality traits over time. 170 adults participated, aged between 51 and 93 years (M=69, SD=9.05), who responded the Big Five Inventory-2, and the Big Five Inventory retrospectively, considering how they thought they were when they aged between 30-35 years. We performed test-retest correlation, and repeated measure Anova, and identified that individual functioning tends to become stable over time. This research contributes to diminish the lack of longitudinal studies involving personality in Brazil.
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