Abstract

Personality can be defined in terms of enduring individual differences in emotional, interpersonal, experiential, and motivational styles. The five factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness provide a comprehensive taxonomy of personality traits for the description of personality in aging men and women. As part of an ongoing series of studies on these basic dimensions, section investigators refined measures of facets of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and demonstrated invariance of the five-factor structure across age, race, and gender groups. In another project, an index of profile agreement was developed to quantify the degree of similarity of personality profiles obtained from different observers' reports; in empirical comparisons, this index was shown to be superior to alternative indices in discriminating matched from mismatched profiles.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Intramural Research (Z01)
Project #
1Z01AG000183-03
Application #
3802211
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1991
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
National Institute on Aging
Department
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State
Country
United States
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  Publications

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Terracciano, Antonio; McCrae, Robert R; Costa Jr, Paul T (2006) Longitudinal trajectories in Guilford-Zimmerman temperament survey data: results from the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P108-16
Terracciano, Antonio; Costa Jr, Paul T; McCrae, Robert R (2006) Personality plasticity after age 30. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:999-1009
Costa Jr, Paul T; McCrae, Robert R (2006) Age changes in personality and their origins: comment on Roberts, Walton, and Viechtbauer (2006). Psychol Bull 132:26-8
Pilia, Giuseppe; Chen, Wei-Min; Scuteri, Angelo et al. (2006) Heritability of cardiovascular and personality traits in 6,148 Sardinians. PLoS Genet 2:e132

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