Lake Joshua, Bardi Anat, Sneddon Joanne, Lee Julie A
Centre for Human and Cultural Values and UWA Business School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
J Pers. 2025 Aug;93(4):830-844. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12979. Epub 2024 Oct 4.
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.
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).
It was observed that more important values tended to remain more stable over time, while traits retained a similar stability regardless of trait strength, and frequently showed small decreases in stability at extreme levels.
Findings indicate that highly prioritized values may be a more central aspect of the self, and a more reliable element for predicting future outcomes, than less highly prioritized values, but in contrast, traits do not function in a way that is dependent on trait strength.
个人价值观和人格特质都是人格的重要方面，但关于这些结构之间的根本差异，包括它们的时间稳定性模式如何比较，仍有很多未知之处。本文研究了价值观和特质的个体内部稳定性模式。
在一个澳大利亚成年人的大型纵向样本（N = 2875）中，估计了20种细化的个人价值观中每一种与两年后的相同价值观之间的分位数相关性。在这些参与者的一个子样本（n = 2424）中，对15个五因素模型特质方面中的每一个也进行了同样的操作。
观察到更重要的价值观往往随着时间的推移保持更稳定，而特质无论特质强度如何都保持相似的稳定性，并且在极端水平上经常表现出稳定性的小幅下降。
研究结果表明，高度优先的价值观可能比不太优先的价值观更是自我的核心方面，也是预测未来结果的更可靠因素，但相比之下，特质的作用方式并不依赖于特质强度。
