Surprisingly, they found a remarkable degree of stability in these traits, at least as they were reported by the mothers. For instance, the trait of
, which the researchers categorize as a sub-component of neuroticism, was completely stable across the four-year time horizon. The traits of organization, intellect, considerateness, and positive emotions also showed little change.personality dimensions measured, agreeableness showed the highest degree of change — the 13-year-olds scored significantly higher on agreeableness compared with their 9-year-old selves. Furthermore, openness to experience decreased from age 9 to 13.
The authors state, “Overall, our results show that children’s personality matured to a small degree over the middleperiod among self-regulatory facets that cross-cut higher-order domains, with disruption only evident among a single facet of openness to experience. These results provide more support for a continuation of personality maturity in the pre-adolescent period than they do for the disruption hypothesis, at least when measured via parent report.
This work echoes some of the findings seen in the adult personality research literature, where there is a consensus that adults show gradual personality improvements over time.
It´s interesting to see that a maturity principle is a fairly stable basis for a grown development of children´s selves. Why is the degree of the trait 'openess to experience' lower, speaking in terms of tendency? It might be due to a lack of new stimuli.
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