2014
DOI: 10.1037/a0034135
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Personality-informed interventions for healthy aging: Conclusions from a National Institute on Aging work group.

Abstract: We describe two frameworks in which personality dimensions relevant to health, such as Conscientiousness, can be used to inform interventions designed to promote health aging. First, contemporary data and theory do not suggest that personality is “immutable”, but instead focus on questions of who changes, in what way, why, when, and how. In fact, the notion that personality could be changed was part and parcel of many schools of psychotherapy, which suggested that long term and meaningful change in symptoms co… Show more

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“…Self-regulatory mechanisms such as the selection of certain environments or the modification of situational features, and change processes such as habit formation might be driving forces for this shift (Denissen, van Aken, Penke, & Wood, 2013;Wood & Rünger, 2010;Wrzus & Roberts, 2016). This precondition goes along with the idea of bottom-up change processes from states to traits via habits (Chapman et al, 2014;Magidson et al, 2014).…”
Section: Intentional Personality Trait Change Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Self-regulatory mechanisms such as the selection of certain environments or the modification of situational features, and change processes such as habit formation might be driving forces for this shift (Denissen, van Aken, Penke, & Wood, 2013;Wood & Rünger, 2010;Wrzus & Roberts, 2016). This precondition goes along with the idea of bottom-up change processes from states to traits via habits (Chapman et al, 2014;Magidson et al, 2014).…”
Section: Intentional Personality Trait Change Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There have been recent discussions about intervention efforts to intentionally change specified personality traits in desired directions (Chapman et al, 2014;Hudson & Fraley, 2017;Magidson et al, 2014;Martin, Oades, & Caputi, 2012;Mroczek, 2014). However, empirical evidence about the efficacy of such interventions is lacking so far, except for some notable examples.…”
Section: Intentional Personality Trait Change Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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