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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Personality Science
  • Longitudinal Studies

Background:

  • Personality change is often linked to life experiences.
  • Previous research primarily focused on mean-level personality changes, finding few replicable effects after life events.
  • Understudied personality change metrics include response variability, structural, and ipsative change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of major life events on understudied personality change metrics.
  • To examine effects on response variability, structural change, and ipsative change in personality traits.
  • To analyze data from a large-scale longitudinal study to assess personality trait dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized three waves of Big Five trait data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (N = 16,368).
  • Employed structural equation models to compare individuals experiencing life events with a control group.
  • Assessed personality change across three distinct types: response variability, structural, and ipsative.

Main Results:

  • Major life events generally showed null or small effects on response variability, structural, and ipsative personality change.
  • Few replicable effects were found for response variability across different measurement approaches.
  • Mental health events uniquely increased variance in all Big Five traits and enhanced ipsative profile consistency.

Conclusions:

  • Life events are not substantial catalysts for most types of personality trait change.
  • The findings suggest that personality remains relatively stable despite major life disruptions.
  • Mental health events represent a specific context where personality change, particularly in variance and consistency, is observable.