Stability & Change

Stability & Change

BIG 5

•Big five factors of personality

BIG 5 (OCEAN)

BIG 5

•Openness to experience

•Conscientiousness

• Extraversion

•Agreeableness

•Neuroticism

Openness

•Variation vs Familiar Routine

•Curious vs Cautious

Openness

•Relationship with social attitudes (ethnocentrism, prejudice)

Conscientiousness

•Organized vs Disorganized

•Disciplined vs Impulsive

Conscientiousness

•Relationship with academic and work place performance

Extraversion

• Extrovert vs Introvert

Extraversion

•Ambiversion

Agreeableness

Agreeableness

•Compassionate vs Cold

•Cooperative vs uncooperative

• Trusting vs Suspicious

Neuroticism

• Tendency to experience negative

emotion

Neuroticism

•Anxious vs Calm

• Insecure vs Secure

•Relationship with psychopathology

Stability vs Change

•Debate

Debate Topic

•Development during middle

adulthood is characterized by

stability rather than change.

Longitudinal Studies

•Costa and McCrae

•Barkeley

•Helson

•George Vaillant

Costa & McCrae

• Early research = stability

•Recent research = changes

Costa & McCrae

•Changed the most = early adulthood

& late adulthood

• “CEAN” predicted health outcomes

• “O” related to cognitive functioning

Costa & McCrae

• “C” related to college student’s GPA

• “A” related to romantic relationship

satisfaction

Berkeley

• Some characteristics were more

stable than others

Berkeley

•Most stable = intellectually oriented,

self confident and openness

•Changed the most = nurturing or

hostile, self control level

Helson

• Sample = 132 women

•3 groups:

Helson

1. Family Oriented

2. Career Oriented

3. Neither one

•Midlife consciousness

George Vaillant

•Wealth & Income happiness in old

age

•Generativity enduring and happy

marriage