Across adulthood, people tend to experience psychologically adaptive personality trait
change, a robust finding known as the maturity principle of personality development. We …

The transition to adolescence is marked by enormous change in social, biological, and
personality development. Although accumulating evidence has offered insight into the …

During early adulthood, individuals tend to increase in personality traits that mark greater
social maturity. The compelling question is why most young adults change in the direction of …

Increasing numbers of empirical studies provide compelling evidence that personality traits
change across the entire lifespan. What initiates this continuing personality development …

Theories of adult development all agree that adulthood is a time of important changes in
goals, resources, and coping. Yet, impressed with the rank-order stability of individual …

Objective A precise and comprehensive description of personality continuity and change
across the life span is the bedrock upon which theories of personality development are built …

We examined the extent to which the Big Five domains, 30 facets, and nuances (uniquely
represented by individual questionnaire items) capture age differences in personality …

The term emerging adulthood has been introduced to describe an extended period of
development between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood. This chapter examines two …

The study of personality development concerns the origins and stability of individual
differences from infancy to old age. Key issues revolve around the kinds of questions that …

The present research assesses adolescent personality maturation by examining 3 measures
of change and stability (ie, mean-level change, rank-order stability, and profile similarity) of …