Contextual Influences on personality development during the transition from university to work

从大学到工作过渡期间的情境对人格发展的影响

基本信息

批准号：
290152750
负责人：
Dr. Anne Reitz
金额：
--
依托单位：
Department of Developmental and Clinical Psychology
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Fellowships
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2014-12-31 至 2016-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/290152750?language=en
关键词：
Contextual Influences personality development during

项目摘要

Personality has long been thought to be stable. Only recently longitudinal research demonstrated that personality develops and changes over the lifespan and that people differ in their personality development. However, this research remains largely descriptive of the average and differential changes. Not much is known about why personality changes. In the proposed project, I aim to address this question by studying the role of the changing social contexts. Integrating approaches from lifespan theory and personality psychology, I plan to investigate how a major life transition, the transition from university to work, drives personality development in young adulthood, the life phase in which personality changes the most. Specifically, I aim to examine how this transition unfolds in daily life in order to get insights into the processes triggered by the contextual changes during the transition. This requires the use of high-resolution prospective longitudinal studies that combine long-term and frequent short-term assessments (i.e., intensive longitudinal data). I therefore plan to use such a intensive longitudinal data set that assessed a broad range of personality and contextual constructs both on a yearly- and a daily-basis across the transition to work. This data will allow me to address three major research questions that will guide my proposed research: 1) How does the transition to work affect normative personality development? 2) What are the individual differences in personality development during the transition to work? And 3) What are the mechanisms underlying the normative change and individual differences in change upon the transition to work, such as changes in personality states, social relationships, motives, and affect? With support from two leading experts on daily diary methods, I will apply multilevel modeling methods to analyze these questions. In sum, I believe that the results of this project have the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying (individual differences in) personality development during the transition from university to work. Hence, this project can help to provide new insights into why personality changes across the lifespan.

长期以来，人格一直被认为是稳定的。直到最近，纵向研究才表明，人格在整个生命周期内发展和变化，人们的人格发展有所不同。但是，这项研究在很大程度上仍然描述了平均变化和差异变化。关于人格为什么会改变的知之甚少。在拟议的项目中，我旨在通过研究不断变化的社会环境的作用来解决这个问题。整合了寿命理论和人格心理学的方法，我计划调查主要的生活转变，从大学到工作的过渡，推动成年后的人格发展，人格变化最大的生活阶段。具体来说，我旨在研究这种过渡如何在日常生活中展开，以便深入了解过渡过程中上下文变化触发的过程。这需要使用高分辨率的前瞻性纵向研究，这些研究结合了长期和频繁的短期评估（即密集的纵向数据）。因此，我计划使用如此密集的纵向数据集，该数据集评估了在整个工作中的每日和每日基础上的广泛性格和上下文结构。这些数据将使我能够解决三个主要的研究问题，以指导我的拟议研究：1）工作的过渡如何影响规范性格发展？ 2）在工作过渡期间，人格发展的个体差异是什么？ 3）在过渡到工作时的规范变化和个体差异的基础机制，例如人格状态，社会关系，动机和影响等变化？在每日日记方法的两位领先专家的支持下，我将应用多级建模方法来分析这些问题。总而言之，我认为该项目的结果有可能有助于我们对从大学过渡到工作期间人格发展的基本机制（个体差异）的理解。因此，该项目可以帮助提供新的见解，了解整个生命周期的变化。