PERSONALITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE FROM ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD: LONGITUDINAL STUDY Cover Image

KONTINUITET I PROMJENE LIČNOSTI OD ADOLESCENCIJE DO RANE ODRASLOSTI: REZULTATI LONGITUDINALNOG ISTRAŽIVANJA
PERSONALITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE FROM ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD: LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Author(s): Denis Bratko
Subject(s): Personality Psychology, Evaluation research
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Personality Continuity and Change; Adolescence; Young Adulthood;

Summary/Abstract: The study presents results of the longitudinal study of personality development from adolescence to young adulthood. Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 262 participants in two measurement points. The mean age of participants was 17.25 in the first measurement, and the test-retest interval was exactly four years. Data was analyzed in order to estimate the personality continuity and change at the phenotypic level. First, the changes in mean scale scores were analyzed. The significant decrease of neuroticism and lie scores were obtained (p<.01), while extroversion scores decreased slightly (p<.05). Second, individual differences were moderately stable for all scales. The test-retest correlations were, respectively, .571, .595, .509, and .509 for extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lie scales.

  • Issue Year: 11/2002
  • Issue No: 60+61
  • Page Range: 623-641
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Croatian
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