A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife
A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.91.4.763
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发表时间：
2006-10-01
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7.6
通讯作者：
Goldberg, Lewis R.
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作者：
Hampson, Sarah E.;Goldberg, Lewis R.
本报告提供了一些初步结果，该调查对小学教师评估的童年“大五”人格特质与 40 年后中年自我报告评估的类似特质之间的关系进行了调查（N = 799）。人格正在发展的童年时期的短期（1-3 年）重测可靠性 (0.22-0.53) 低于人格稳定性应达到顶峰的成年期 (0.70-79)。童年评估与成年期人格的 2 项测量之间 40 年间隔的稳定性系数，外向性（例如，.29）和尽责性（例如，.25）高于开放性（例如，.16）、宜人性（例如，.08）和神经质（例如，.00）。通过规范分析和结构方程模型评估了童年和成年之间的结构连续性，并表明了广泛的二维水平和大五水平的连续性。这些发现与 A. Caspi、B. W. Roberts 和 R. L. Shiner (2005) 的人格稳定性排序原则进行了讨论。
This report provides some initial findings from an investigation of the relations between childhood Big Five personality traits assessed by elementary school teachers and similar traits assessed 40 years later by self-reports at midlife (N = 799). Short-term (1-3 years) test-retest reliabilities were lower (.22-.53) in childhood when personality was developing than they were in adulthood (.70-79) when personality stability should be at its peak. Stability coefficients across the 40-year interval between the childhood assessment and the 2 measures of adulthood personality were higher for Extraversion (e.g.,.29) and Conscientiousness (e.g.,.25) than for Openness (e.g.,.16), Agreeableness (e.g.,.08), and Neuroticism (e.g.,.00). Construct continuity between childhood and adulthood was evaluated by canonical analysis and by structural equation modeling and indicated continuity at both a broad, two-dimensional level and at the level of the Big Five. The findings are discussed in relation to A. Caspi, B. W. Roberts, and R. L. Shiner's (2005) principles of rank-order personality stability.