| Literature DB >> 12500825 |
Jatin G Vaidya1, Elizabeth K Gray, Jeffrey Haig, David Watson.
Abstract
The authors investigated the stability of personality and trait affect in young adults. In Studies 1 and 2, young adults were retested on a Big Five personality measure and a trait affect inventory over a 2.5-year and a 2-month period, respectively. Results from Study 1 point to positive mean-level changes; participants scored higher on Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness at Time 2. Affectively, participants experienced less negative affect and more positive affect at Time 2. Results from both retests provide clear evidence of differential stability. Affective traits were consistently less stable than the Big Five. Other analyses suggest that life events influence the stability of affective traits more than the Big Five.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12500825
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol ISSN： 0022-3514