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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 999-1009Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206288599
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Five-Factor Model; personality development; long-term stability; individual differences; life span; older adults
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Rank-order consistency of personality traits increases from childhood to age 30. After that, different summaries of the literature predict a plateau at age 30, or at age 50, or a curvilinear peak in consistency at age 50. These predictions were evaluated at group and individual levels using longitudinal data from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory for periods of up to 42 years. Consistency declined toward a nonzero asymptote with increasing time interval. Although some scales showed increasing stability after age 30, the rank-order consistencies of the major dimensions and most facets of the Five-Factor Model were unrelated to age. Ipsative stability, assessed with the California Adult Q-Set, also was unrelated to age. These data strengthen claims of predominant personality stability after age 30.
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