成人性格特质的稳定性：事实还是虚构？

Stability of adult personality traits: fact or fable?

作者信息

Schaie K W, Parham I A

出版信息

J Pers Soc Psychol. 1976 Jul;34(1):146-58. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.34.1.146.

DOI:10.1037//0022-3514.34.1.146

Abstract

Theoretical positions for and against a stability model for adult personality traits are examined. Results of a sequential study of 19 personality factors over a 7-year period and with participants ranging in age from 22 to 84 years suggest that stability within generations appears to be the rule, albeit combined with many differences between successive population cohorts and subject to transient secular trends. A typology of 13 possible models is offered to account for the different developmental trends observed for the various personality factors.

摘要

本文探讨了支持和反对成人人格特质稳定性模型的理论观点。一项对19种人格因素进行的为期7年的纵向研究结果显示，研究对象年龄在22岁至84岁之间，结果表明，代际间的稳定性似乎是常态，尽管连续几代人群之间存在许多差异，并受到短期长期趋势的影响。本文提供了13种可能模型的类型学，以解释观察到的各种人格因素的不同发展趋势。