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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Disaster Psychology

Background:

  • Natural disasters like hurricanes can be significant adverse life events.
  • Understanding the impact of such events on personality development is crucial for psychological resilience research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how natural disaster adversity, specifically hurricane exposure, influences personality development in emerging adults.
  • To examine the moderating role of prior hurricane exposure on personality change following a major hurricane.

Main Methods:

  • A two-wave longitudinal study design was employed with 691 emerging adults.
  • Data collected included demographics, socioeconomic status, Big Five personality traits (baseline and one year later), hurricane exposure, and previous hurricane exposure.

Main Results:

  • Significant individual differences were observed in baseline personality traits and patterns of change over one year.
  • No statistically significant mean-level changes in personality were found post-hurricane.
  • Neither the level of hurricane exposure nor its interaction with previous exposure predicted personality change rates.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support a personality stability model, indicating that individuals generally retain their core personality dispositions after experiencing a major adverse event like a hurricane.
  • Personality remains relatively stable despite significant adversity, highlighting individual resilience factors.