Human Growth and Development / Unit 14 HGD 1957 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Changes Personality at Midlife
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The idea
Roles and experiences still shift personality: taking leadership roles raised conscientiousness, and everyday discrimination raised neuroticism over ten years.
In practice
Feeling younger than one's age predicting increases in openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
Where people slip
Japanese adults showed more trait variability than Americans, adapting personality to settings; culture shapes how stable traits look.
Your place on the trail
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