Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Psicothema. 2013;25(3):342-8. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2012.297.
Recent studies have suggested that the age-personality relationship may be partially explained by age-related changes in social desirability. In the present study, we analyze how age affects social desirability and acquiescence, and how they affect the age-personality relationship.
We used a specially designed personality test, which provides response bias and personality dimension scores independently of each other. We applied this test to a sample of 3773 individuals aged between 13 and 97 years old (49.69% female) and analyzed the effects of age, sex, and their interactions on response bias and personality dimensions.
Age affects social desirability and acquiescence, both of which increase with age, and this increase affects the age-personality relationship, especially for dimensions such as Agreeableness or Conscientiousness.
The age-related differences found in self-reported personality measures might be partly attributable to age-related increases in response bias. Furthermore, the high scores of elderly people on response bias measures implies that the results of self-reports that do not incorporate any correction for response bias should be viewed with caution, especially when they are obtained in samples of people over 50 years old.
最近的研究表明，年龄与人格的关系可能部分可以通过与年龄相关的社会期望变化来解释。在本研究中，我们分析了年龄如何影响社会期望和默许，以及它们如何影响年龄与人格的关系。
我们使用了一种专门设计的人格测试，该测试可以独立于彼此提供反应偏差和人格维度得分。我们将该测试应用于一个由 3773 名年龄在 13 至 97 岁之间的个体（49.69%为女性）组成的样本，并分析了年龄、性别及其相互作用对反应偏差和人格维度的影响。
年龄会影响社会期望和默许，两者都会随着年龄的增长而增加，这种增加会影响年龄与人格的关系，尤其是在亲和性或尽责性等维度上。
在自我报告的人格测量中发现的与年龄相关的差异可能部分归因于与年龄相关的反应偏差增加。此外，老年人在反应偏差测量中的高分意味着，如果不针对反应偏差进行任何校正，就应该谨慎看待自我报告的结果，尤其是在 50 岁以上的人群样本中获得的结果。
