Goals and plans for Big Five personality trait change in young adults

Robinson, Oliver; Noftle, Erik E.; Guo, Jen; Asadi, Samaneh; Zhang, Xiaozhou

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2015.08.002

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“…Given the importance of conscientiousness and openness to experience, it is not surprising that becoming more conscientious or more open are common change goals for people. Indeed, research has shown that many people have the desire to change their personality traits (Baranski, Morse, & Dunlop, 2017; Hudson, Fraley, Chopik, & Briley, in press; Hudson & Roberts, 2014; Miller, Baranski, Dunlop, & Ozer, 2019; Robinson, Noftle, Guo, Asadi, & Zhang, 2015). Moreover, the desire to change conscientiousness and openness is not only prevalent among younger adults; older adults also express desires to change their personality (Hudson & Fraley, 2016a; Quintus, Egloff, & Wrzus, 2017).…”

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Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two–Week Smartphone–Based Intervention for Personality Change

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Research indicates that it might be possible to change personality traits through intervention, but this clinical research has primarily focused on changing neuroticism. To date, there are no established, proven techniques for changing other domains of personality, such as conscientiousness and openness. This research examined the effects of a two‐week smartphone‐based intervention to either change one facet of conscientiousness (i.e. self‐discipline) or one facet of openness to experience (i.e. openness to action). Two intervention studies (total N = 255) with two active intervention groups for mutual comparisons were conducted. Results of self‐reports and observer reports showed that people who wanted to become more self‐disciplined were less self‐disciplined at pretest. Similarly, people who wanted to become more open to action were less open to action at pretest. The results showed that people who chose the self‐discipline intervention showed greater increases in self‐discipline, and people who chose the openness to action intervention showed greater increases in openness to action compared with the other group. Changes were maintained until follow‐up two and six weeks after the end of the intervention. Future work is needed to examine whether these personality changes are enduring or reflect temporary accentuation as a result of participation in the intervention. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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Section: Personality Change Through Interventionmentioning

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Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two–Week Smartphone–Based Intervention for Personality Change

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“…The residual change score is widely considered superior to raw change scores (i.e., T2 minus T1). It assesses the change independent of the initial score which is necessary because due to regression to the mean, high scores tend to change downwards over time, and low scores tend to change upwards, which means that change scores are typically negatively correlated with baseline score (Robinson, Noftle, Guo, Asadi, & Zhang, 2015).…”

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The influence of future time perspective on work engagement and job performance: the role of job crafting

Kooij

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Akkermans

2016

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

110

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“…Previous research has found that the vast majority of people want to change their personalities (Baranski et al, ; Hudson & Fraley, ; Hudson & Roberts, ; Robinson et al, )—and moreover, people appear to be able to actually change some personality traits in desired ways (Hudson, Briley, et al, ; Hudson & Fraley, , ). In the present studies, we extended this research to more interpersonal characteristics—individuals' attachment styles.…”

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Volitional Change in Adult Attachment: Can People Who Want to Become Less Anxious and Avoidant Move Closer towards Realizing those Goals?

2020

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People value relationships and want to relate to both friends and romantic partners in a secure and comfortable fashion. But can individuals move towards realizing this goal of their own volition? To address this question, across three studies with a combined total of more than 4000 participants, we developed and validated a new measure of people's desires to change their attachment anxiety and avoidance. In Study 1, we created the new, 16-item Change Goals-Experiences in Close Relationships measure. In Study 2, we replicated the Change Goals -Experiences in Close Relationships' factor structure and demonstrated that it correlates in theoretically expected ways with criterion variables (e.g. people who were high in undesirable traits such as anxiety or avoidance generally wanted to change those traits; change goals were linked to dissatisfaction with relevant life domains). Finally, in Study 3, we conducted a 16-wave, weekly longitudinal study. Results indicated that goals to change attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted corresponding growth across time (e.g. people who wanted to become less anxious tended to experience declines in attachment anxiety across time). Thus, our research provides a new measure for studying changes in attachment and suggests people may be able to increase in attachment security per their own volition.

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Goals and plans for Big Five personality trait change in young adults

Cited by 50 publications

References 38 publications

Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two–Week Smartphone–Based Intervention for Personality Change

Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two–Week Smartphone–Based Intervention for Personality Change

The influence of future time perspective on work engagement and job performance: the role of job crafting

Volitional Change in Adult Attachment: Can People Who Want to Become Less Anxious and Avoidant Move Closer towards Realizing those Goals?

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