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Personality Development in Adulthood
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Topics
• The Nature of Adult Development
• What Are Young Adults Like?
• Traversing Middle Adulthood
• Where Is Personality Headed?
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What Is the Nature of Adult Development?
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General Ideas of Adult Development
• General Stage Conceptions (Levinson; Stewart):– Longer term periods of stability– Punctuated by times of adjustment and, sometimes,
crisis
• General Tasks: – Family (intimacy, generativity)– Career (generativity)– Personal and social growth (wisdom)
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Stage Theories Stages 6 through 8 of Erikson’s Eight Stages
Stage and Age: Personal Social
Intimacy vs. Isolation Young Adulthod
Forming intimate relationships versus existing alone and in isolation
Occupations; organizations
Generativity vs. Stagnation Adulthood
Creation of a new family; contributing to society vs. repeating life on a day-to-day basis with little growth and giving
Occupation; family
Ego Integrity vs. DespairMaturity
Positive sense of self as giving, productive vs. inability to accept his or her life
Family; occupation; institutions
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A Portion of Levinson’s Adult Stage ModelStage Ages Developmental tasks Possible Outcomes
Entering the adult world
22-28 Test out links between valued self and society
*Explore possibilities/ keep options open
*Create a stable life structure
*create loose structure w/o stability, not rooted
*loose at beginning and firm up commitments
*commit strongly early and question it later
Age 30 transition
28-33 *Work out flaws and limits of early adult life
*Revise entry into adulthood before too late
*excitement: “getting oneself together”
*smooth beginning, with enrichment
*Crisis: life intolerable; difficult to change; divorce, threat to own life
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Finding a Desirable Partner
• Do the number of relationships matter? Do people learn from them? …There is no relationship betweem dating relationships and success in marriage.
• Success at dating can be defined in many different ways– Number of relationships– Commitment to a single relationship– Intimacy in a relationship
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Finding a Desirable Partner
• Matters are different for men and women.
• Relationships Divide into Different Levels:– Early Dating: Most superficial desires– Commitment: Value correspondence– Marriage/Domestic Partners: Serious role
congruence (can you work as a team)
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Finding a Desirable Partner
• Men write about their occupational status and education
• They seek attractive, youthful partners
• Women write about their attractiveness & youth
• They seek men of high occupational status and education
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Finding a Desirable Partner
• People choose as mates those who are more similar to them than other random people.
• Particularly true of:– Religion– Social habits (e.g., drinking)– Sensation seeking– Conceptions of marriage– Family background– Intelligence (r = .49)
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In Search of Good Work
Holland Occupational Hexagram• Realistic: farmers, mechanics, surveyors• Investigative: biologists, chemists• Artistic: writers, actors, interior decorators• Social: social workers, teachers, therapists• Enterprising: salespeople, politicians, reporters• Conventional: book-keepers, accountants,
engineers
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In Search of Good Work
• Similar occupational types are nearby
• Different types are opposite one another
• A good mnemonic is: RIASEC
Enterprising
(People &
Ideas,
Not Things)
Enterprising
(People &
Ideas,
Not Things)
Social
(People, not
Things)
Social
(People, not
Things)
Artistic
(Imagining &
Creating)
Artistic
(Imagining &
Creating)
Investigative
(Ideas, Math,
Science)
Investigative
(Ideas, Math,
Science)
Realitic
(Things, not
People)
Realitic
(Things, not
People)
Conventional
(Organizing
Things)
Conventional
(Organizing
Things)
Types of
Occupations
Types of
Occupations
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In Search of Good Work
Enterprising
(People &
Ideas,
Not Things)
Enterprising
(People &
Ideas,
Not Things)
Social
(People, not
Things)
Social
(People, not
Things)
Artistic
(Imagining &
Creating)
Artistic
(Imagining &
Creating)
Investigative
(Ideas, Math,
Science)
Investigative
(Ideas, Math,
Science)
Realitic
(Things, not
People)
Realitic
(Things, not
People)
Conventional
(Organizing
Things)
Conventional
(Organizing
Things)
Types of
Occupations
Types of
Occupations
• The greatest predictor of job satisfaction is…a person’s overall sense of satisfaction
• Beyond that, however, people with personalities that match their occupation are still more satisfied
• Gottfredson & Holland, 1990
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Staying Married
Superfactors Men Women
Positive emotion -.07* -.15**
Negative emotion -.11* -.12**
Constraint .11** -.11**from Jockin, McGue, & Lykken (1996)
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Staying Married
Specific Factors Men Women
Well being .05* .02*
Social potency -.21** -.18**
Achievement -.07 -.11**
Alienation -.10** -.14**
Control .06 .12**
Harm Avoidance .09** .15**
Traditionalism .16** .25**from Jockin, McGue, & Lykken (1996)
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Staying Married
...one might speculate that personality in married couples...explains about a quarter of the variance in divorce risk. This is not an overly imposing figure, perhaps. But in the light of the myriad social, economic, and psychological factors that bear on the probability of a life outcome such as divorce, such a contribution to variance seems considerable (Jockin, McGue, & Lykken, 1996, p. 296).
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Finding Occupational Success
• Average intelligence quotient of people in a given occupation correlates r = .80 with the prestige of the occupation
• IQ forms a “floor” for an occupation. That is, people below the floor cannot do it.
• No occupation has a “ceiling” – people of high IQ are found in all occupations.
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Finding Occupational Success
• Best (non-ability) Predictor of Success at Work Across All Occupations Among the Big Five (Barrick & Mount, 1981):– Extroversion-Introversion– Emotionality (Neuroticism)-Stability– Openness Closedness– Friendliness-Hostility– Conscientiousness-Carelessness*** r
= .17, for objective measures
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Finding Occupational Success
• Large, longitudinal, New Zealand sample (Caspi, Elder, & Bem, 1987)
• Studied Children with high and low levels of temper tantrums, rated by mothers at ages 8, 9, and 11
• In the military (70% entered military), achieved lower rank on average
• By age 50, less occupational success– In fact, those from a middle-class background were
downwardly mobile
• Nearly twice the divorce rate (40 vs. 22%)
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Finding Occupational Success; Specifics
• There are also specific factors for occupations
• Example: Optimism and Electioneering – Candidates who employ an optimistic style in
their campaigning won in 18 of 22 presidential elections from 1900 to 1984.
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Finding Occupational Success
• Adlai Stevenson’s Nomination Acceptance Speech:
• “That my heart has been troubled, that I have not sought the nomination, that I could not seek it in good conscience, that I would not seek it in honest self-appraisal, is not to say I value it the less.”!
• Eisenhower, Nomination Acceptance Speech:
• “Ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow Americans to lead a great crusade -- for freedom in America and freedom in the world.”
• Both quoted in Simonton, (1994, p. 253).
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Finding Occupational Success
• Optimism and Electioneering:Concerns…
• Of course, happy people tend to process information more superficially than sadder people.
• So, voters get a certain kind of candidate…
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Finding Occupational Success
• Assuming a decent intelligence (above 110 for many matters; 120 for scientific work), hard work over many years seems most essential.
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Personality and Health
• Some suggestive findings:– Hostility and heart disease
• Type A pattern: competitiveness, hostility, impatience, achievement striving, loud, explosive speech style; may be associated with heart disease
• Depression may be associated with heart disease, but findings remain controversial.
– Difficulty coping with stress• Leads to greater likelihood of colds and transient infections
– People with negative affect report more symptoms, but no health differences (e.g., longevity) have been reliably detected.
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Who Adjusts Course? Who Changes the Most?
(Block, 1971)In a longitudinal study of
the Berkeley Guidance and Oakland Growth Studies, Block used a Q-sort measure of adjustment to compare changers and non-changers between adolescence and adulthood.
Those most stable:• More intellectually
successful• More emotionally
successful• More socially successful• Better adjusted
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Who Adjusts Course? • Who Changed? (Block, 1971) • Those who were less mature, and underwent further
maturation (late bloomers).• Individuals who are more deviant are pressured to
change: Others want them to approach the “biosocial norm.” Still, their personalities did not necessarily become more pleasant.
• Sometimes, the person looks different because norms change: Women labeled “rebellious” in the period 1945-1960, looked more adjusted in the period of the late 1960’s, after the beginning of the women’s movement.
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Who Adjusts Course?
Ryff’s Model of Well Being
High
Environmental Mastery
Low Personal Growth
Conservers Achievers High Personal GrowthDepleted Seekers
Low
Environmental Mastery
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Who Adjusts Course? Examples of three types (from Helson & Srivastava)
Cathy: Conserver Sarah: Seeker Andrea: Achiever*Married young to man approved by family
*Supported his career problems by going to work in people-oriented job
*Quit after 20 years of high competence because people disrespectful
*Much sought out by church & commun. groups
*Described by interviewer as unusually perceptive, but with tendency to disengage abruptly
*Dropped out of graduate school when unexpectedly became pregnant
*Worked at becoming more sociable
*In helping profession, where must work around bureaucracy
*Hopes to write great American novel
*Did not want to marry or have children
*Straight from college to professional school
*Continued career progress but drank heavily
*Overcame drinking at age 40
*Married a charming and successful man, good relations with his children
*Retired, and had second career as volunteer
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Who Adjusts Course?
Traversing Middle Adulthood: Helson Study
Achiev’s Conserv’s Seeker’s DepletedLife Satisfaction .11 .41 .09 -.61Convent. Adjust -.53 .45 .19 -.11
Polit. Liber. -.04 -.58 .74 -.12Occup. Creativity
.22 -.58 .52 -.16
Satis. with job secur./ben.
.34 .20 -.46 -.08
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Good Functioning
– One definition of a good personality is simply freedom from psychopathology.
• Freud: To Love and to Work• DSM-IV [free from] Social and occupational
dysfunction
– Is that enough?
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Adding Strengths
– Another approach is to identify positive personality traits
– The individual is assessed depending upon the number of such positive characteristics.
– Some examples include: • Subjective Well-Being: A person’s positive emotional and
intellectual evaluation that he or she is experiencing a good life, that that he or she is likable, and that the life he or she lives is satisfying (Diener, Lucas, & Oishi, 2002, p. 63).
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Adding Strengths
• More examples of positive traits: – Resilience: A person’s capacity to adjust and adapt positively in
the face of significant challenges, bad luck, and risk (Masten & Reed, 2002, p. 74)
– Creativity (Simonton, 2002, p. 192). A person’s independent, nonconformist perspective, coupled with wide interests and openness to new experiences, and cognitive flexibility
– Humility: A person’s ability to accurately assess his or her strengths and weaknesses, to acknowledge his or her limitations in social contexts, and to de-emphasize her or his self in social settings (Tangney, 2002, p. 411).
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Strengths, and Weaknesses, in Context There are issues with counting strengths
• Some strengths contradict one another – …creativity and loyalty…– ...empathy and fairness...– …courage and realistic caution...
• Other strengths can be weaknesses in some contexts– Optimism– Courage
• Some weaknesses can be strengths:– Defensive Pessimism
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Strengths, and Weaknesses, in Context
• Defensive Pessimism defined (25% most extreme in this regard):– Set low standards for themselves– Consider all the possible negative outcomes– Are highly anxious– Perform so as to cope with negative possible outcomes
• Perform as well as optimists – and better than when they (pessimists) use more optimistic approaches.
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Optimal Types
Self-Actualized Person
• A global ability to perceive reality, be flexible, and appreciate the world (my interpretation)
• Prevalence: Non-existent before age 35 or so
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Optimal Types
Characteristics of Maslow’s Self- Actualized Person
• Efficient Reality Perception
• Acceptance
• Spontaneity
• Problem Centering
• Detachment
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Optimal Types
Characteristics of Maslow’s Self- Actualized Person (cont.)
• Autonomy (Gilligan: Relatedness?)
• Freshness of Appreciation
• Peak Experiences
• Special Relationships
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Optimal Types
Characteristics of Maslow’s Self- Actualized Person (cont.)
• Gemeinschaftsgefuhl (helping the world)
• Democratic Character
• Unhostile Humor
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