PSYB30H3 Chapter 5: PSYB30 Chapter 5
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Psyb30: chapter 5 personality dispositions over time: stability, Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, and change. Personality development: the continuities, consistencies and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Three most important forms of stability are: rank order stability: the maintenance of individual position within a group. If people tend to maintain their positions on a personality characteristic relative to the othe(cid:396)s o(cid:448)e(cid:396) ti(cid:373)e, the(cid:374) the(cid:396)e"s a high (cid:396)a(cid:374)k o(cid:396)de(cid:396) sta(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to that characteristic. If they fail to maintain it, they are displaying rank order instability (rank order change: mean level stability: constancy of level. Example: if the average level of liberalism in a group remains the same over time, the group exhibits high mean level stability. If the(cid:455) get i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)easi(cid:374)gl(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:396)(cid:448)ati(cid:448)e as the(cid:455) get olde(cid:396), the(cid:374) the(cid:455)"(cid:396)e displa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g mean level change: personality coherence: maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of the trait.
