PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Personality Psychology, Mattress, Midlife Crisis
20 Apr 2016
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There are two different kinds of stability over time: rank order the correlation between, mean level a measure between the time (time1 time2) Correlation can be either strong or weak, measured by r value. Depending on your relative standing, relative to other people being sampled. In order to understand, we look at the correlation between time (highest extraversion now vs. extraversion level later on) averages of the different scores. For this stability, we do not have to be in a study for many years because it looks at different people at different periods in time. One major question in personality psychology is whether people change over time. Scientific research has found that some change is apparent from teens to 20s and then personality stays pretty stable from age 30 onwards. Traumatic events, environment, change in culture, developmental changes, experiences, changes in values. A lot of science shows that traits actually do not change all that much.
