Personality Psychology

Roberts, Brent W.; Yoon, Heejun Roy

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“…The life span perspective conceptualizes aging as a lifelong process of development and adaptation (Baltes et al, 2006). Research embedded in this perspective has found personality traits to be subject to change across the entire life span (Costa et al, 2019;Graham et al, 2020;Specht, 2017;Specht et al, 2014; for recent reviews, see Bleidorn et al, 2021;Roberts & Yoon, 2021). Although a majority of personality development takes place in adolescence and emerging adulthood (Bleidorn & Schwaba, 2017;Pusch et al, 2019;, personality traits also change in middle and older adulthood (e.g., Allemand et al, 2008;Damian et al, 2019;Kandler et al, 2015;Lucas & Donnellan, 2011;Mõttus et al, 2012;S.…”

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The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction

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Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands ( N = 563) and the United States ( N = 2210) to analyze first-time grandparents’ personality and life satisfaction development. We tested gender, employment, and grandchild care as moderators. To address confounding, we employed propensity score matching using two procedures: matching grandparents with parents and nonparents to achieve balance in different sets of carefully selected covariates. Multilevel models demonstrated mean-level stability of the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction over the transition to grandparenthood, and no consistent moderation effects—contrary to the social investment principle. The few small effects of grandparenthood on personality development did not replicate across samples. We found no evidence of larger inter-individual differences in change in grandparents compared to the controls or of lower rank-order stability. Our findings add to recent critical re-examinations of the social investment principle and are discussed in light of characteristics that might moderate grandparents’ personality development.

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The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction

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“…Personality traits are defined as characteristic and automatic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are consistent over time and across situations (Roberts & Yoon, 2021). They represent cognitive, affective, and behavioural tendencies, averaged across situations (Fleeson & Jayawickreme, 2015).…”

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A closer look at the domain‐specific associations of openness with language achievement: Evidence on the role of intrinsic value from two large‐scale longitudinal studies

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Schmidt

Fleckenstein

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Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Background Many empirical investigations focus on how personality traits and academic motivation are related to academic achievement. Regarding the personality traits described in the five‐factor model, prior research has shown associations between openness to experience and language achievement in particular. Following the principle of trait activation, associations with intrinsic value can explain these domain‐specific relationships of openness with achievement. Aims This study investigated whether intrinsic value mediates the associations of openness to experience with language achievement to understand these associations more closely. Based on the principle of trait activation, we combined openness to experience with intrinsic value as a motivational construct more proximal to behaviour. Samples We capitalized on two large‐scale longitudinal data sets (N = 1994; M = 16.8 years; 51% female; and N = 2722; M = 17.34 years; 58% female) of German‐speaking students in upper secondary education with two points of measurement, respectively. Methods We assessed achievement using report card grades and standardized test scores, capturing three language subskills: reading and listening, measured by standardized tests, and writing competencies, measured by essay assignments. We conducted mediation analysis using bootstrapped confidence intervals and robust standard errors to account for dependencies in the data due to students clustered within classrooms. Results and Conclusions Overall, our results show that intrinsic value mediated the relationship between openness and achievement in English as a foreign language. The results remained stable when controlling for prior achievement, predicting achievement gains. Our investigation provides empirical insights into the manifestations of personality in academic contexts. We discuss the limitations of our approach, with a focus on the use of a mediation analysis in this research design.

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Personality Psychology

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The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction

The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction

A closer look at the domain‐specific associations of openness with language achievement: Evidence on the role of intrinsic value from two large‐scale longitudinal studies

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