STABILITY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：本申请寻求 支持继续进行十年前开始的一个研究项目， 研究个体行为差异的终生发展， 行为倾向 该申请寻求支持， 研究的几个理论和实证问题， 人的性格特征在一生中的稳定性， 特别是稳定和变化模式的变化程度 这是老龄化和社会变迁的结果。 它将适用 现有的理论框架和方法学方法， 美国过去的实证研究的基础相对较新 来自美国和英国的国家级面板数据：1）研究 美国家庭（SAF），2）美国人改变生活（ACL）研究，3） 英国家庭小组研究（BHPS），以及4）全国选举研究 20世纪50年代、70年代和90年代的面板。 此外，支持 要求对几个有理论根据的假设进行检查 关于队列稳定性和使用现有横断面数据的变化 综合社会调查和国家选举研究系列。 安全总局 是一组从1972年到1994年在全国范围内进行的20项调查， 内斯系列是基于21 自1952年以来选举年对国家代表性样本的调查 美国 证据是为三个独立的，但不相互排斥的 对人类稳定和变化的解释：群体还是世代 稳定性/变化、生命周期或老化解释 稳定/变化，以及对个人和 社会变革 这些解释将基于 社会变革分为群体内变革和群体更替， 补充使用面板数据的摩尔稳定性的估计。 将使用结构方程获得这些分量的估计值 采用各种不同模型的潜在增长曲线分析 规范.

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): This application seeks support for the continuation of a research project begun a decade ago to study the life-span development of individual differences in behavior and behavioral dispositions. The application seeks support for continued investigation of several theoretical and empirical issues about the stability of human dispositional characteristics over the life-span, particularly the extent of variation in patterns of stability and change that result from processes of aging and social change. It will apply existing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches developed on the basis of past empirical studies in the U.S. to relatively new national-level panel data from the U.S. and Great Britain: 1) the Study of American Families (SAF), 2) Americans' Changing Lives (ACL) study, 3) the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), and 4) the National Election Study panels from the 1950s, 1970s and the 1990s. In addition, support is requested for the examination of several theoretically-grounded hypotheses regarding cohort stability and change using existing cross-sectional data from the General Social Survey and National Election Study series. The GSS is a set of 20 surveys conducted from 1972 to 1994 on nationally representative samples of the U.S. The NES series is based on 21 election-year surveys since 1952 on nationally representative samples of the U.S. Evidence is sought for three separate, but not mutually exclusive explanations for human stability and change: cohort or generational explanations of stability/change, life-cycle or aging explanations of stability/change, and historical or period" explanations of individual and social change. These interpretations will be based on decompositions of social change into intra-cohort change and cohort replacement components, supplemented with estimates of molar stabilities using the panel data. Estimates of these components will be obtained using structural equation analysis of latent growth curves employing a variety of different model specifications.