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Contextualizing personality psychologyBrent W Roberts
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers 75:1071-81. 2007..In this introductory essay, I describe the potential advantages of integrating traditional concepts in personality psychology with social roles and provide an overview of the contributions made to the special issue...
Sociogenomic personality psychologyBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers 76:1523-44. 2008..We end the article with a discussion of the future directions of sociogenomic personality psychology...
Conscientiousness and externalizing psychopathology: overlap, developmental patterns, and etiology of two related constructsBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:871-88. 2009..Last, future directions are discussed...- Predicting the counterproductive employee in a child-to-adult prospective studyBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 61820, USA
J Appl Psychol 92:1427-36. 2007..Job conditions and personality traits had independent effects on counterproductive work behaviors, above and beyond background factors... - Compensatory conscientiousness and health in older couplesBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Sci 20:553-9. 2009..Finally, we found that the combination of high conscientiousness and high neuroticism was also compensatory, such that the wives of men with this combination of personality traits reported better health than other women... - Personality traits change in adulthood: reply to Costa and McCrae (2006)Brent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Bull 132:29-32. 2006..Finally, the authors point out why the differences between their position and Costa and McCrae's are important... - Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studiesBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Bull 132:1-25. 2006..Of the 6 trait categories, 4 demonstrated significant change in middle and old age. Gender and attrition had minimal effects on change, whereas longer studies and studies based on younger cohorts showed greater change... - Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adultsJoshua J Jackson
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Psychol Aging 27:286-92. 2012..The study is one of the first to demonstrate that personality traits can change through nonpsychopharmocological interventions... - Not all conscientiousness scales change alike: a multimethod, multisample study of age differences in the facets of conscientiousnessJoshua J Jackson
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:446-59. 2009..In contrast, age differences in observer-rated personality occurred mainly in older adulthood. Age differences held across both ethnicity and levels of socioeconomic status... - Uncovering the affective core of conscientiousness: the role of self-conscious emotionsJennifer V Fayard
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers 80:1-32. 2012..These studies showed that Conscientiousness is primarily related to guilt and highlighted the importance of examining the emotional substrate of Conscientiousness... - Narrating personality changeJennifer Lodi-Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:679-89. 2009..These findings improve our understanding of how individuals conceptualize their changing identity over time... - Do people know how their personality has changed? Correlates of perceived and actual personality change in young adulthoodRichard W Robins
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Pers 73:489-522. 2005..Perceived and actual change showed theoretically meaningful correlations with a host of variables related to different aspects of college achievement and adjustment... - Work experiences and personality development in young adulthoodBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:582-93. 2003..The relevance of the findings to theories of personality development is discussed... - Low self-esteem prospectively predicts depression in adolescence and young adulthoodUlrich Orth
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:695-708. 2008..Thus, the results supported the vulnerability model, but not the scar model, of self-esteem and depression... - A longitudinal study of the relationships between conscientiousness and the social-environmental factors and substance-use behaviors that influence healthBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers 72:325-54. 2004..The implications for personality, health, and personality development are discussed... - Becoming the Harvard man: person-environment fit, personality development, and academic successP D Harms
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:851-65. 2006..The implications of the findings for personality development and the relationship of PE fit to successful outcomes are discussed... - Conscientiousness and longevity: an examination of possible mediatorsPatrick L Hill
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Health Psychol 30:536-41. 2011..However, it remains an open question as to why this link with longevity occurs. The current study tested two possible mediators (physical health and cognitive functioning) of the link between conscientiousness and longevity... - Genes, environments, personality, and successful aging: toward a comprehensive developmental model in later lifeNicholas R Eaton
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 67:480-8. 2012.... - Capturing abnormal personality with normal personality inventories: an item response theory approachKate E Walton
Department of Psychology, St John s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY11439, USA
J Pers 76:1623-48. 2008..Moreover, both types of inventories were limited in terms of measurement bandwidth, such that they did not provide information across the entire latent trait continuum. Implications and future directions are discussed... - Person-Environment Fit and its implications for personality development: a longitudinal studyBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers 72:89-110. 2004..The implications of the findings for personality development are discussed... - A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safetyTerrie E Moffitt
Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:2693-8. 2011..Interventions addressing self-control might reduce a panoply of societal costs, save taxpayers money, and promote prosperity... - Concurrent and prospective relationships between social engagement and personality traits in older adulthoodJennifer Lodi-Smith
Department of Psychology, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, USA
Psychol Aging 27:720-7. 2012..These patterns suggest that personality traits can both inform our understanding of engagement during older adulthood and that personality traits may be meaningful outcomes of the aging experience in their own right... - Cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of the Personality and Role Identity Structural Model (PRISM)Dustin Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 61820, USA
J Pers 74:779-809. 2006..The potential of PRISM for use in understanding the development of personality traits is discussed... - The effect of age and role information on expectations for big five personality traitsDustin Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61829, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1482-96. 2006..The implications for understanding the interplay of expectations and personality trait development are discussed... - The role of adherence in the relationship between conscientiousness and perceived healthPatrick L Hill
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 USA
Health Psychol 30:797-804. 2011..Moreover, we examined whether these effects differed for adhering to doctor's orders (doctor adherence) versus adhering to medication regimens (medication adherence), as the latter is likely more relevant for older adults' health... - Memory self-efficacy predicts responsiveness to inductive reasoning training in older adultsBrennan R Payne
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 6990, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 67:27-35. 2012..In the current study, we assessed the relationship between memory self-efficacy at pretest and responsiveness to inductive reasoning training in a sample of older adults... - Social investment and personality: a meta-analysis of the relationship of personality traits to investment in work, family, religion, and volunteerismJennifer Lodi Smith
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 11:68-86. 2007..These findings are more robust when individuals are psychologically committed to rather than simply demographically associated with the investment role... - Personality development and growth in women across 30 years: three perspectivesBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 61820, USA
J Pers 70:79-102. 2002..The implications of the findings for personality development and growth are discussed... - Goal and personality trait development in emerging adulthoodBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:541-50. 2004..These findings provide insights into the relatively unstudied question of how life goals change during emerging adulthood... - On traits, situations, and their integration: a developmental perspectiveBrent W Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 8:402-16. 2004.... - The stability of vocational interests from early adolescence to middle adulthood: a quantitative review of longitudinal studiesK S Douglas Low
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Bull 131:713-37. 2005..The findings are discussed in the context of psychosocial development... - Conscientiousness and health-related behaviors: a meta-analysis of the leading behavioral contributors to mortalityTim Bogg
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Bull 130:887-919. 2004..This study demonstrates the importance of conscientiousness' contribution to the health process through its relationship to health-related behaviors... - The case for conscientiousness: evidence and implications for a personality trait marker of health and longevityTim Bogg
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Ave, 7th Floor, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA
Ann Behav Med 45:278-88. 2013.... - Patterns of continuity: a dynamic model for conceptualizing the stability of individual differences in psychological constructs across the life courseR Chris Fraley
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Psychol Rev 112:60-74. 2005.... - Personality development: stability and changeAvshalom Caspi
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, England SE5 8AF, UK
Annu Rev Psychol 56:453-84. 2005..In each of these four areas, we note gaps and identify priorities for further research... - Constructing personality scales under the assumptions of an ideal point response process: toward increasing the flexibility of personality measuresOleksandr S Chernyshenko
Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Psychol Assess 19:88-106. 2007..Results show that adoption of the ideal point approach provided a more flexible platform for creating future personality measures, and this transition did not adversely affect the validity of personality test scores...