Stability and change in the Big Five personality traits: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults.

ABSTRACT: A large body of research has documented how personality develops across adulthood, yet very little longitudinal work has examined whether these findings generalize beyond predominantly middle-class, highly educated White American or Western European individuals. This preregistered study uses longitudinal data from 1,110 Mexican-origin adults who completed a well-validated personality measure, the Big Five Inventory, up to six times across 12 years. Individuals generally maintained their rank ordering on the Big Five over time (rs = .66-.80), and the relative ordering of the Big Five within persons was also highly stable (rs = .58-.66). All of the Big Five traits showed small, linear mean-level decreases across adulthood. These trajectories showed few associations with sociode

SUBMITTER: Atherton OE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821110 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature