Factorial structure and age-related psychometrics of the MIDUS personality adjective items across the life span.

Zimprich, Daniel; Allemand, Mathias; Lachman, Margie E.

doi:10.1037/a0025265

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“…The MIDI scales have been found to be associated with psychological and physical well-being in theoretically meaningful ways (e.g., Keyes, Shmotkin, & Ryff, 2002;Turiano et al, 2012), providing evidence for their construct validity. Moreover, the scales show strong measurement invariance across adult age groups (Zimprich, Allemand, & Lachman, 2012).…”

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Perceived partner responsiveness moderates the association between received emotional support and all-cause mortality.

Selçuk¹,

Ong²

2013

Health Psychology

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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) moderates the association between received partner emotional support (RPES) and all-cause mortality in a national U.S. sample. Method: Data were from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, a national probability survey of health and aging. Participants included respondents who were married or cohabiting with a romantic partner. Results: Hierarchical logistic regression analyses indicated that after adjusting for demographics, physical health status, health behaviors, psychological symptoms, and personality traits, high RPES was associated with increased mortality risk among participants who reported low PPR, but it was unrelated to mortality risk among participants who reported high PPR. Conclusions: This study is the first to document that perceived partner responsiveness moderates the association between received partner emotional support and mortality risk, thus contributing to the literature on the contextual factors altering the effects of received support on health outcomes.

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Section: Perceived Partner Responsiveness (Ppr)mentioning

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Perceived partner responsiveness moderates the association between received emotional support and all-cause mortality.

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2013

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“…Personality traits were measured with items derived from the International Personality Item Pool [31] as implemented in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study [32] . Neuroticism was measured with 4 items (moody, worrying, nervous; reverse-coded: calm); conscientiousness (organized, responsible, hardworking, thorough; reverse-coded: careless), extraversion (outgoing, friendly, lively, active, talkative), and agreeableness (helpful, warm, caring, softhearted, sympathetic) were measured with 5 items each, and openness was measured with 7 items (creative, imaginative, intelligent, curious, broad-minded, sophisticated, adventurous).…”

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Correlates and Moderators of Change in Subjective Memory and Memory Performance: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study

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terns of associations emerged with respect to predictors of subjective memory and subjective memory change. First, the level of memory performance showed stronger associations with age, gender, and education, whereas subjective memory was more strongly associated with subjective age and personality traits. For example, women performed better than men on the episodic memory test, but there were no gender differences in subjective memory. Also, older age was associated with steeper declines of memory performance but with less decline of subjective memory. Second, personality traits that predicted subjective memory intercepts did not predict subjective memory slopes. Third, the strength of associations between levels and slopes of subjective memory and memory performance varied as a function of gender, education, depressive symptoms, and personality traits. Conscientiousness moderated the relationship of the level of subjective memory to the level of memory performance, consistent with the hypothesis that persons high in conscientiousness more accurately monitor memory successes and failures. The results reinforce the importance of depressive symptoms as a predictor of subjective memory but also indicate that a broader perspective on the reasons why memory complaints have modest correlations with memory itself is needed. AbstractAging researchers have long been interested in understanding individuals' subjective perceptions of their own memory functioning. Previous research has shown that subjective memory ratings are partly based on memory performance but also reflect the influence of other factors, such as depressive symptoms. The aim of the present study was to examine (1) longitudinal associations between trajectories of subjective memory and memory performance, (2) variables that predict levels of and changes in subjective memory and memory performance, and (3) variables that moderate associations between these constructs. We applied a latent growth curve model to four occasions of data from 15,824 participants of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; mean age at baseline = 64.27 years, SD = 9.90; 58% women). Results revealed that latent changes in subjective memory were correlated with latent changes in memory performance ( φ = 0.49), indicating that participants who reported steeper declines of subjective memory indeed showed steeper declines of memory performance over time. Three major pat-

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“…Finally, cross-sectional and longitudinal research demonstrates relatively high levels of structural stability in traits over time and/or across different ages (e.g., Allemand, Zimprich, & Hertzog, 2007;Mõttus et al, 2012;Zimprich et al, 2012). However, it is not clear whether the factorial structure of traits remains stable in old age.…”

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“…Empirical evidence for personality trait stability in adulthood comes from findings with respect to differential stability, stability of variance, and structural stability (e.g., Ferguson, 2010;Mõttus et al, 2012;Terracciano, Costa, & McCrae, 2006;Zimprich, Allemand, & Lachman, 2012). A large body of literature demonstrates increasing levels of differential stability across the adult years in terms of maintaining rank-order stability (Roberts & DelVecchio, 2000).…”

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“…Investigations of structural stability often include the testing of measurement equivalence (e.g., Allemand et al, 2007;Jackson et al, 2009;Zimprich et al, 2012). This important issue in developmental psychometrics touches the question of whether psychological constructs are comparable across different age groups or across measurement occasions.…”

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Stability of Personality Traits in Adulthood

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Stability represents a fundamental concept in developmental theory and research. In this article we give an overview of recent work on personality traits and their stability in adulthood. First, we define personality traits and stability. Second, we present empirical evidence supporting change and stability of personality traits across the adult years with respect to conceptually and statistically different forms of stability. Third, we describe mechanisms and processes that enable trait stability. Finally, we discuss implications of trait stability for theory, research, and application. Stability of Personality Traits 2! AbstractStability represents a fundamental concept in developmental theory and research. In this article we give an overview of recent work on personality traits and their stability in adulthood. First, we define personality traits and stability. Second, we present empirical evidence supporting change and stability of personality traits across the adult years with respect to conceptually and statistically different forms of stability. Third, we describe mechanisms and processes that enable trait stability. Finally, we discuss implications of trait stability for theory, research, and application.

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Factorial structure and age-related psychometrics of the MIDUS personality adjective items across the life span.

Cited by 117 publications

References 84 publications

Perceived partner responsiveness moderates the association between received emotional support and all-cause mortality.

Perceived partner responsiveness moderates the association between received emotional support and all-cause mortality.

Correlates and Moderators of Change in Subjective Memory and Memory Performance: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study

Stability of Personality Traits in Adulthood

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