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  • Psychology
  • Personality Science
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Nomothetic, dimensional personality trait models show lifespan changes but lack individual mechanisms.
  • Person-specific, idiographic approaches may offer deeper insight into individual personality dynamics.
  • Bridging nomothetic and idiographic perspectives is crucial for understanding personality development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if idiographic personality network properties predict between-person personality trait changes.
  • To explore the utility of dynamic network analysis in understanding personality development.
  • To bridge the gap between nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality.

Main Methods:

  • Constructed N=1 idiographic personality networks using dynamic exploratory graph analysis.
  • Employed multilevel growth models over two years with self- and informant-reports.
  • Examined the relationship between network parameters and between-person trait changes.

Main Results:

  • Idiographic network parameters were largely unrelated to between-person trait changes in self-reports.
  • Some network parameters showed relationships with between-person trait changes in informant-reports.
  • Findings suggest limited generalizability of network properties to broad trait change.

Conclusions:

  • Idiographic dynamic networks may not fully predict broad, between-person personality trait changes.
  • Informant reports offered more nuanced insights into network-trait change relationships.
  • Further research is needed to integrate person-specific dynamics with general trait development for a holistic view of personality change.