Past research syntheses provided evidence that personality traits are both stable and
changeable throughout the life span. However, early meta-analytic estimates were …

To understand personality dynamics, processes, and functioning better, knowledge on the
relations between persons and environments needs to advance. First, this chapter outlines …

In recent decades, there has been growing interest in competence in Educational and
Psychological Research and Human Resource Development Studies. One of the reasons …

A positive academic self-concept (ASC) relates to many desirable educational outcomes.
Research on which student characteristics relate to the formation of ASC is therefore crucial …

The chapter focuses on processes of personality development during adulthood. It first
describes several theoretical models before detailing the TESSERA framework—a generic …

This study examined the structural and genetic links between value orientations, based on
the theory of basic values, and moral concerns, based on moral foundations theory. We …

Based on a perspective on personality coherence as the extent to which personality-relevant
characteristics are differentiated and integrated within a person in his or her environment …

Objective Several personality theories distinguish between rather genetically rooted,
universal dispositional traits (DTs) and rather environmentally shaped, more contextualized …

We investigated the distinction between traits (also labelled basic tendencies or
dispositions) and (characteristic) adaptations, two related features of the personality system …

The Study of Personality Architecture and Dynamics (SPeADy) is a German research project
that aims to investigate the sources of interindividual differences in intraindividual …