We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.
%0 Journal Article
%1 cobbclark2012stability
%A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
%A Schurer, Stefanie
%D 2012
%I Elsevier BV
%J Economics Letters
%K socdes
%N 1
%P 11-15
%R 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.015
%T The stability of big-five personality traits
%U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176511004666
%V 115
%X We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.
@article{cobbclark2012stability,
abstract = {We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.},
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author = {Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. and Schurer, Stefanie},
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journal = {Economics Letters},
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langid = {english},
number = 1,
pages = {11-15},
publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
timestamp = {2018-09-25T14:20:48.000+0200},
title = {The stability of big-five personality traits},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176511004666},
urldate = {2018-09-25},
volume = 115,
year = 2012
}