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  • Quantitative Psychology

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  • Personality change is a key aspect of lifespan development, yet its underlying mechanisms are not fully understood.
  • Existing models often focus on population-level changes, neglecting individual differences and dynamic personality processes.
  • Assessing personality dynamics, such as changes in variance and correlations within multivariate data, offers a promising avenue for studying change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and test a permutation-based method for detecting individual-level personality changes using multivariate time series data.
  • To compare the efficacy of this novel method with traditional event-based approaches for assessing personality change.
  • To investigate the relationship between detected personality changes and experienced life events.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized weekly self-report data from 388 participants over 60 weeks (total N = 21,790 observations).
  • Applied a permutation-based approach to identify individual-level changes in personality dynamics within multivariate time series.
  • Compared the timing of detected personality changes with self-reported life events.

Main Results:

  • A significant number of participants exhibited individual-level personality changes over the 60-week study period.
  • Detected personality change points showed minimal association with concurrently experienced life events.
  • The permutation-based method successfully identified dynamic changes in personality structure.

Conclusions:

  • Individual personality change is detectable and occurs more frequently than previously assumed by population-level models.
  • Personality shifts may not always be directly attributable to specific, contemporaneous life events.
  • Emphasizes the value of idiographic (individual-focused) and dynamic (process-focused) approaches in personality research.