Personality trait change and life satisfaction in adults: The roles of age and hedonic balance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 694-698

  Magee, Christopher A ^a   Miller, Leonie M ^a   Heaven, Patrick C L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hedonic balance; Latent change score; Life satisfaction; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880737161     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.05.022     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bandalos D.L. The effects of item parcelling on goodness-of-fit and parameter estimate bias in structural equation modeling. Structural Equation Modeling 2002, 9:78-102.
2. Bogg T., Roberts B.W. Conscientiousness and health-related behaviors: A meta-analysis of the leading behavioural contributors to mortality. Psychological Bulletin 2004, 130:887-919.
3. Boyce C.J., Wood A.M., Powdthavee N. Is personality fixed? Personality changes as much as "variable" economic indicators and more strongly predicts changes to life satisfaction. Social Indicators Research 2013, 111:287-305.
4. Diener E., Oishi S., Lucas R.E. Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: Emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. Annual Review of Psychology 2003, 54:403-425.
5. Ferrer E., McArdle J.J. Longitudinal modeling of developmental changes in psychological research. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2010, 19:149-154.
6. Fujita F., Diener E. Life satisfaction set point: Stability and change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2005, 88:158-164.
7. Heller D., Watson D., Illies R. The role of person versus situation in life satisfaction: A critical examination. Psychological Bulletin 2004, 130:574-600.
8. Hu L.-T., Bentler P.M. Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification. Psychological Methods 1998, 3:424-453.
9. Jensen-Campbell L.A., Knack J.M., Gomez H.L. The psychology of nice people. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2010, 4:1042-1056.
10. Little T.D., Preacher K.J., Selig J.P., Card N.A. New developments in latent variable panel analyses of longitudinal data. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2007, 31:357-365.
11. Magee C.A., Heaven P.C.L., Miller L. Personality change predicts self-reported mental and physical health. Journal of Personality 2013, 81:324-334.
12. McArdle J.J. Latent variable modelling of differences and changes with longitudinal data. Annual Review of Psychology 2009, 60:577-605.
13. McCrae R.R., Costa P.T. The five-factor theory of personality. Handbook of personality: Theory and research 2008, 159-181. The Guilford Press, New York. 3rd ed. O.P. Johns, R.W. Robins, L.A. Pervin (Eds.).
14. Mroczek D.K., Spiro A. Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: Findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2005, 88:189-202.
15. Mroczek D.K., Spiro A. Personality change influences mortality in older men. Psychological Science 2007, 18:371-376.
16. Muthén L.K., Muthén B.O. Mplus users guide 1998-2010, Muthén & Muthén, Los Angeles: CA. 6th ed.
17. Realo A., Dobewall H. Does life satisfaction change with age? A comparison of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Sweden. Journal of Research in Personality 2011, 45:297-308.
18. Roberts B.W., DelVecchio W.F. The rank-order consistency of personality traits from childhood to old age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin 2000, 126:3-25.
19. Roberts B.W., Mroczek D. Personality trait change in adulthood. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2008, 17:31-35.
20. Sargent-Cox K., Butterworth P., Anstey K.J. The global financial crisis and psychological health in a sample of Australian older adults: A longitudinal study. Social Science and Medicine 2011, 73:1105-1112.
21. Saucier G. Mini-markers: A brief version of Goldberg's unipolar Big-Five markers. Journal of Personality Assessment 1994, 63(3):506-516.
22. Schimmack U., Diener E., Oishi S. Life-satisfaction is a momentary judgment and a stable personality characteristic: The use of chronically accessible and stable sources. Journal of Personality 2002, 70:345-384.
23. Schimmack U., Radhakrishnan P., Oishi S., Dzokoto V., Ahadi S. Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: Integrating process models of life satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2002, 82(4):582-593.
24. Selig J.P., Preacher K.J. Mediation models for longitudinal data in developmental research. Research in Human Development 2009, 6:144-164.
25. Specht J., Egloff B., Schmukle S.C. Examining mechanisms of personality maturation: The impact of life satisfaction on the development of the Big Five personality traits. Social Psychology and Personality Science 2013, 4:181-189.
26. Specht J., Egloff B., Schmukle S.C. Stability and change of personality across the life course: The impact of age and major life events on mean-level and rank-order stability of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2011, 101:862-882.
27. Turiano N.A., Pitzer L., Armour C., Karlamangla A., Ryff C.D., Mroczek D.K. Personality trait level and change as predictors of health outcomes: Findings from a national study of Americans (MIDUS). Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Science 2012, 67:4-12.
28. Veenhoven R. Happy life-expectancy. Social Indicators Research 1996, 39:1-58.
29. Wooden M., Freidin S., Watson N. The household, income and labour dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey: Wave 1. Australian Economic Review 2002, 35:339-348.