{"id":4413,"date":"2018-09-21T19:41:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2018-09-21T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:48:48","slug":"personality-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/personality-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personality Development =<\/strong> Degree to which people can change and remain the same over time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Definition in book = <\/em>Continuity, consistency, and stability of characteristics of people over time.<\/p>\n<p>Two defining qualities of personality change:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internal (Personal, not environmental)<\/li>\n<li>Enduring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stability and change can be viewed at three levels of analysis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Population level\n<ul>\n<li>Changes or constancies that happen to almost everyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Group level\n<ul>\n<li>Changes or constancies that affect different groups differently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Individual difference level\n<ul>\n<li>Of significant interest to personality researchers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three forms of stability:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rank-order stability<\/li>\n<li>Stability of the average (mean-level)<\/li>\n<li>Personal coherence\n<ul>\n<li>Maintenance of rank order relative to others but changes in manifestation of traits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Personality profile stability could also be a form because this is often measured in research.)<\/p>\n<p>What parts of our personality undergo change?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The McAdams model\n<ul>\n<li>Dispositional traits \uf0e0 Big Five<\/li>\n<li>Characteristic adaptations, a person\u2019s desires, beliefs, concerns and coping mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>The stories that give a life a sense of meaning, purpose and unity. \uf0e0 Narrative identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Personality development: The accumulation of \u201clayers\u201d of personality as one ages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Temperament = <\/strong>early personality traits<\/p>\n<p>[Sheet 25 \u2013 39]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does our personality change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two theories: FFT &amp; SIP<\/p>\n<p><em>The Five-Fdctor Theory<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Genetics\/biology<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Universal<\/li>\n<li>Limited environmental influences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Socidl Investment Principle<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cultural norms<\/li>\n<li>Assume and identify with adult roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cohort effects =<\/strong> personality changes that occur over time as a reflection of the social times in which an individual or group of individuals live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age effects =<\/strong> personality changes that occur over time due to the aging of an individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personality Development = Degree to which people can change and remain the same over time. Definition in book = Continuity, consistency, and stability of characteristics of people over time.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/personality-development\/\">Continue Reading<span> Personality Development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}