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Major life events are abrupt changes in the status of individuals that may impact thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This chapter provides a review of studies that examined the impact of major life events on the development of the Big Five personality traits. First, theoretical perspectives are introduced on why personality may (or may not) change in reaction to major life events. Second, methodological ...
In:
Jule Specht ,
Personality Development Across the Lifespan
London: Elsevier
341-356
| Jule Specht
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The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful nature of this incident, we analyzed whether individual differences in the belief in external control influence ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2 (2011), 2, 132-137
| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Does personality change across the entire life course, and are those changes due to intrinsic maturation or major life experiences? This longitudinal study investigated changes in the mean levels and rank order of the Big Five personality traits in a heterogeneous sample of 14,718 Germans across all of adulthood. Latent change and latent moderated regression models provided four main findings: First, ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
101 (2011), 4, 862-882
| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Perceived control is an important variable for various demands involved in successful aging. However, perceived control is not set in stone, but rather changes throughout the life course. The aim of this study was to identify cross-sectional age differences and longitudinal mean-level changes as well as rank-order changes in perceived control with respect to sex and education. Furthermore, changes ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
49 (2013), 2, 353–364
| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Individuals are expected to mature with increasing age, but it is not yet fully understood which factors contribute to this maturation process. Using data of a representative sample of Germans (N = 14,718) who gave information about their Big Five personality traits twice over a period of 4 years, the authors identified satisfaction with life, which was reported yearly, as an important variable for ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
4 (2013), 2, 181-189
| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Consistency and change in personality were analyzed by examining personality types across adulthood and old age using data from 2 nationally representative panel studies from Germany (N = 14,718; 16-82 years) and Australia (N = 8,315; 15-79 years). In both samples, the Big Five personality traits were measured twice across a period of 4 years. Latent profile analyses and latent profile transition analyses ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
107 (2014), 3, 540-556
| Jule Specht, Maike Luhmann, Christian Geiser
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
1995,
(Discussions paper No. 104)
| Zsolt Spéder
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In:
Wolfgang Glatzer, Gerhard Kleinhenz ,
Wohlstand für alle?
Opladen: Leske und Budrich
335-408
| Zsolt Spéder, Annett Schultz, Roland Habich
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In:
Statistisches Bundesamt ,
Datenreport 1997 - Zahlen und Fakten über die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
441-449
| Annette Spellerberg
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In:
Informationsdienst Soziale Indikatoren (ISI)
(2010), 43, 9-12
| Annette Spellerberg