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Laura E R Blackie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change challenges opportunities and recommendations
Journal of Personality, 2021Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, William J. Chopik, Laura E R Blackie, Frank J Infurna, Kinan Alajak, Joanne M Chung, Anna Dorfman, William Fleeson, Marie J C Forgeard, Patricia A FrazierAbstract:Objective Posttraumatic growth typically refers to enduring positive psychological Change experienced as a result of adversity, trauma, or highly challenging life circumstances. Critics have challenged insights from much of the prior research on this topic, pinpointing its significant methodological limitations. In response to these critiques, we propose that posttraumatic growth can be more accurately captured in terms of Personality Change—an approach that affords a more rigorous examination of the phenomenon. Method We outline a set of conceptual and methodological questions and considerations for future work on the topic of post‐traumatic growth. Results We provide a series of recommendations for researchers from across the disciplines of clinical/counseling, developmental, health, Personality, and social psychology and beyond, who are interested in improving the quality of research examining resilience and growth in the context of adversity. Conclusion We are hopeful that these recommendations will pave the way for a more accurate understanding of the ubiquity, durability and causal processes underlying post‐traumatic growth.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change developing a measure to assess within person variability
Journal of Research in Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, Laura E R Blackie, Marie J C Forgeard, Eli Tsukayama, Ann Marie Roepke, William FleesonAbstract:Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive Personality Change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals’ everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals’ PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals’ trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change evidence controversies and future directions
European Journal of Personality, 2014Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, Laura E R BlackieAbstract:This target article focuses on the construct of post-traumatic growth—positive psychological Change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. Prominent theories of post-traumatic growth define it in terms of Personality Change, and as a result, this area of research should be of great interest to Personality psychologists. Despite this fact, most of the research on this topic has not been sufficiently informed by relevant research in Personality psychology, and much of the extant research suffers from significant methodological limitations. We review the literature on post-traumatic growth, with a particular focus on how researchers have conceptualized it and the specific methodological issues associated with these conceptualizations. We outline some ways in which Personality science can both be enriched by the study of this phenomenon and inform rigorous research on post-traumatic growth and provide a series of guidelines for future research of post-traumatic growth as positive Personality Change.
Eranda Jayawickreme - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change challenges opportunities and recommendations
Journal of Personality, 2021Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, William J. Chopik, Laura E R Blackie, Frank J Infurna, Kinan Alajak, Joanne M Chung, Anna Dorfman, William Fleeson, Marie J C Forgeard, Patricia A FrazierAbstract:Objective Posttraumatic growth typically refers to enduring positive psychological Change experienced as a result of adversity, trauma, or highly challenging life circumstances. Critics have challenged insights from much of the prior research on this topic, pinpointing its significant methodological limitations. In response to these critiques, we propose that posttraumatic growth can be more accurately captured in terms of Personality Change—an approach that affords a more rigorous examination of the phenomenon. Method We outline a set of conceptual and methodological questions and considerations for future work on the topic of post‐traumatic growth. Results We provide a series of recommendations for researchers from across the disciplines of clinical/counseling, developmental, health, Personality, and social psychology and beyond, who are interested in improving the quality of research examining resilience and growth in the context of adversity. Conclusion We are hopeful that these recommendations will pave the way for a more accurate understanding of the ubiquity, durability and causal processes underlying post‐traumatic growth.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change developing a measure to assess within person variability
Journal of Research in Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, Laura E R Blackie, Marie J C Forgeard, Eli Tsukayama, Ann Marie Roepke, William FleesonAbstract:Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive Personality Change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals’ everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals’ PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals’ trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change evidence controversies and future directions
European Journal of Personality, 2014Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, Laura E R BlackieAbstract:This target article focuses on the construct of post-traumatic growth—positive psychological Change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. Prominent theories of post-traumatic growth define it in terms of Personality Change, and as a result, this area of research should be of great interest to Personality psychologists. Despite this fact, most of the research on this topic has not been sufficiently informed by relevant research in Personality psychology, and much of the extant research suffers from significant methodological limitations. We review the literature on post-traumatic growth, with a particular focus on how researchers have conceptualized it and the specific methodological issues associated with these conceptualizations. We outline some ways in which Personality science can both be enriched by the study of this phenomenon and inform rigorous research on post-traumatic growth and provide a series of guidelines for future research of post-traumatic growth as positive Personality Change.
Brent W. Roberts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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changing Personality traits with the help of a digital Personality Change intervention
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021Co-Authors: Mirjam Stieger, Dominik Rüegger, Christoph Flückiger, Tobias Kowatsch, Brent W. Roberts, Mathias AllemandAbstract:Personality traits predict important life outcomes, such as success in love and work life, well-being, health, and longevity. Given these positive relations to important outcomes, economists, policy makers, and scientists have proposed intervening to Change Personality traits to promote positive life outcomes. However, nonclinical interventions to Change Personality traits are lacking so far in large-scale naturalistic populations. This study (n = 1,523) examined the effects of a 3-mo digital Personality Change intervention using a randomized controlled trial and the smartphone application PEACH (Personality coACH). Participants who received the intervention showed greater self-reported Changes compared to participants in the waitlist control group who had to wait 1 mo before receiving the intervention. Self-reported Changes aligned with intended goals for Change and were significant for those desiring to increase on a trait (d = 0.52) and for those desiring to decrease on a trait (d = -0.58). Observers such as friends, family members, or intimate partners also detected significant Personality Changes in the desired direction for those desiring to increase on a trait (d = 0.35). Observer-reported Changes for those desiring to decrease on a trait were not significant (d = -0.22). Moreover, self- and observer-reported Changes persisted until 3 mo after the end of the intervention. This work provides the strongest evidence to date that normal Personality traits can be Changed through intervention in nonclinical samples.
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Narrating Personality Change
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2009Co-Authors: Jennifer Lodi-smith, Brent W. Roberts, Aaron C. Geise, Richard W. RobinsAbstract:The present research investigated the longitudinal relations between Personality traits and narratives. Specifically, the authors examined how individual differences in 170 college students' narratives of Personality Change (a) were predicted by Personality traits at the beginning of college, (b) related to actual Changes and perceived Changes in Personality traits during college, and (c) related to Changes in emotional health during college. Individual differences in narratives of Personality trait Change told in the 4th year of college fell into 2 dimensions: affective processing, characterized by positive emotions, and exploratory processing, characterized by meaning making and causal processing. Conscientious, open, and extraverted freshmen told exploratory stories of Change as seniors. Emotionally healthy freshmen told stories of Change that were high in positive affect. Both positive affective and exploratory stories corresponded to Change in emotional stability and conscientiousness during college above and beyond the effects of perceived Changes in these traits. In addition, both positive affective and exploratory narratives corresponded to increases in emotional health during college independent of the effects of Changes in Personality traits. These findings improve our understanding of how individuals conceptualize their changing identity over time.
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do people know how their Personality has Changed correlates of perceived and actual Personality Change in young adulthood
Journal of Personality, 2005Co-Authors: Richard W. Robins, Erik E Noftle, Kali H Trzesniewski, Brent W. RobertsAbstract:How much do we think our Personality Changes over time? How well do our perceptions of Change correspond with actual Personality Change? Two hundred and ninety students completed measures of the Big Five Personality traits when they first entered college. Four years later, they completed the same measures and rated the degree to which they believed they had Changed on each dimension. Participants tended to view themselves as having Changed substantially, and perceptions of Change showed some correspondence with actual Personality Change. Perceived and actual Change showed theoretically meaningful correlations with a host of variables related to different aspects of college achievement and adjustment.
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the cumulative continuity model of Personality development striking a balance between continuity and Change in Personality traits across the life course
2003Co-Authors: Brent W. Roberts, Avshalom CaspiAbstract:Research has shown that Personality-trait consistency is more common than Personality-trait Change and that when Personality-trait Change occurs, it is seldom dramatic. This finding results in a theoretical dilemma, for trait theories provide no explanation for Personality Change. Alternatively, most theories of adult developmental focus on Change but not Change in Personality traits. To address this theoretical oversight, we first describe the mechanisms that promote Personality continuity, such as the environment, genetic factors, psychological functioning, and person-environment transactions. Then we describe the counterpart to continuity, the mechanisms that facilitate Personality Change, such as responding to contingencies, observational learning, learning generalization, and learning from others’ descriptions of ourselves. We argue that identity processes can explain both the mechanisms of continuity and Change and form the basis for a theory that explains the empirical findings on Personality-trait development over the life course. Specifically, we make the case that the development of a strong identity and certain facets of identity structure, such as identity achievement and certainty, are positively related to many of the mechanisms that promote Personality continuity. Furthermore, we argue that one unintentional consequence of identity development is to put oneself into contexts that promote Personality Change, such as new roles or a different circle of friends.
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a longitudinal study of Personality Change in young adulthood
Journal of Personality, 2001Co-Authors: Richard W. Robins, Brent W. Roberts, Chris R Fraley, Kali H TrzesniewskiAbstract:The present research examined Personality continuity and Change in a sample of young men and women assessed at the beginning and end of college. Two-hundred seventy students completed measures of the Big Five Personality traits when they first entered college and then 4 years later. Analyses indicate small- to medium-sized normative (i.e., mean-level) Changes, large rank-order stability correlations, high levels of stability in Personality structure, and moderate levels of ipsative (i.e. profile) stability. Overall, the findings are consistent with the perspective that Personality traits exhibit considerable continuity over time, yet can Change in systematic ways.
Maureen Dennis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Predictors of Personality Change Due to Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents Six to Twenty-Four Months After Injury
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2006Co-Authors: Jeffrey E. Max, Harvey S. Levin, Russell Schachar, Julie Landis, Ann E. Saunders, Linda Ewing-cobbs, Sandra B. Chapman, Maureen DennisAbstract:Phenomenology and predictive factors of Personality Change due to traumatic brain injury (TBI) 6 to 24 months after injury was investigated in children, ages 5 to 14 years, enrolled from consecutive admissions and followed prospectively for 2 years. Injury and preinjury psychosocial variables were assessed. Personality Change occurred in 13% of participants between 6 and 12 months after injury and 12% in the second year after injury. Severity of injury consistently predicted Personality Change, and preinjury adaptive function predicted Personality Change only in the second year postinjury. Lesions of the superior frontal gyrus were associated with Personality Change between 6 and 12 months following injury, after controlling for severity of injury and the presence of other brain lesions. Only lesions in the frontal lobe white matter were significantly related to Personality Change in the second year after injury. After childhood TBI, neural correlates of Personality Change evolve between 6 and 12 months a...
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Predictors of Personality Change due to traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents in the first six months after injury
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005Co-Authors: Jeffrey E. Max, Harvey S. Levin, Russell Schachar, Julie Landis, Ann E. Saunders, Linda Ewing-cobbs, Sandra B. Chapman, Maureen DennisAbstract:ABSTRACT Objective To assess the phenomenology and predictive factors of Personality Change due to traumatic brain injury. Method Children ( N = 177), aged 5 to 14 years with traumatic brain injury from consecutive admissions to five trauma centers, were followed prospectively at baseline and 6 months with semistructured psychiatric interviews. Injury severity, lesion characteristics, and preinjury variables including psychiatric disorder, family psychiatric history, family function, socioeconomic status, psychosocial adversity, and adaptive function were assessed with standardized instruments. Results Personality Change occurred in 22% of participants in the first 6 months after injury. Severity of injury predicted Personality Change, whereas none of the psychosocial variables predicted Personality Change. Lesions of the dorsal prefrontal cortex, specifically the superior frontal gyrus, were associated with Personality Change after controlling for severity of injury or the presence of other lesions. Conclusions These findings are consistent with models of affective dysregulation that implicate a dorsal prefrontal cortex system important for effortful regulation of affective states.
William Fleeson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change challenges opportunities and recommendations
Journal of Personality, 2021Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, William J. Chopik, Laura E R Blackie, Frank J Infurna, Kinan Alajak, Joanne M Chung, Anna Dorfman, William Fleeson, Marie J C Forgeard, Patricia A FrazierAbstract:Objective Posttraumatic growth typically refers to enduring positive psychological Change experienced as a result of adversity, trauma, or highly challenging life circumstances. Critics have challenged insights from much of the prior research on this topic, pinpointing its significant methodological limitations. In response to these critiques, we propose that posttraumatic growth can be more accurately captured in terms of Personality Change—an approach that affords a more rigorous examination of the phenomenon. Method We outline a set of conceptual and methodological questions and considerations for future work on the topic of post‐traumatic growth. Results We provide a series of recommendations for researchers from across the disciplines of clinical/counseling, developmental, health, Personality, and social psychology and beyond, who are interested in improving the quality of research examining resilience and growth in the context of adversity. Conclusion We are hopeful that these recommendations will pave the way for a more accurate understanding of the ubiquity, durability and causal processes underlying post‐traumatic growth.
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post traumatic growth as positive Personality Change developing a measure to assess within person variability
Journal of Research in Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Eranda Jayawickreme, Laura E R Blackie, Marie J C Forgeard, Eli Tsukayama, Ann Marie Roepke, William FleesonAbstract:Earlier work has defined post-traumatic growth (PTG) as positive Personality Change, but measurement of this construct has relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional and retrospective assessments. The aim of this study was to use an experience-sampling procedure to measure the extent to which PTG manifested in individuals’ everyday lives after a recent highly stressful or traumatic adverse event (compared to a control group). In doing so, we developed a state measure of PTG. The factor structure of state PTG was comparable to trait PTG, there was significant variability in individuals’ PTG from moment-to-moment, but individuals’ trait PTG was unrelated to their state PTG. Moreover, individuals who had experienced a recent adversity did not differ from control participants on state PTG.