PSYC 305 Chapter 5: CHAPTER 5 PERSONALITY DISPOSITION OVER TIME.docx
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Chapter 5 personality disposition over time: stability, coherence, & change. Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence & change. What is personality development? can be defined as the continuities, consistencies, & stabilities in people over time & the ways in which people change over time. 3 most important forms of stability are rank order stability, mean level stability & personality coherence. Stability during childhood longitudinal studies- examinations of same groups of individuals over time: block and block longitudinal study: Study of 100 children assessed at three, four, five, seven, and 11 years. Activity level assessed using actometer and assessments of behaviour and personality provided. Actometer- recording device attached to writs of the children during several play periods. Size of correlations decreases as the time interval between different testings increases. Measures taken early in life can predict personality later in life, but predictability decreases over. Stability coefficients (test-retest reliability coefficients)- correlations between the same measures obtained at 2 different points in time.
