A Fundamental Difference in the Nature of Personal Values and Personality Traits Revealed Through Different Patterns of Stability Across Their Distributions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Personal values and personality traits are both important aspects of personality, but much is still unknown about the fundamental differences between the constructs, including how their patterns of temporal stability compare. This paper investigated patterns of intra-individual stability in both values and traits.

Method

Quantile correlations were estimated between each of the 20 refined personal values and the same values 2 years later in a large longitudinal sample of Australian adults (N = 2875). The same was done for each of the 15 Five-Factor Model trait facets in a subsample of these participants (n = 2424).

Results

It was observed that more important values tended to remain more stable over time, while traits retained a similar stability regardless of

SUBMITTER: Lake J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12224552 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature