Social Cognitive Constructs Are Just as Stable as the Big Five between Grades 5 and 8

Autor/inn/en	Rieger, Sven; Göllner, Richard; Spengler, Marion; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin; Roberts, Brent W.
Titel	Social Cognitive Constructs Are Just as Stable as the Big Five between Grades 5 and 8
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 3 (2017) 3, (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Social Cognition; Personality Traits; Foreign Countries; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Individual Differences; Longitudinal Studies; Self Concept; Student Interests; Mathematics; English (Second Language); German; Secondary School Students; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Kognition; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Individueller Unterschied; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Selbstkonzept; Studieninteresse; Mathematik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Deutscher; Sekundarschüler; Deutschland
Abstract	Personality traits and social cognitive variables are central constructs in psychological research. It is often assumed that personality traits are less changeable than social cognitive variables, and thus interventions usually tend to focus on the latter. However, these assumptions about the mutability of personality and social cognitive variables have never been tested side-by-side in a longitudinal study. Using a large longitudinal study with four time points and N = 3,876 students in 136 classes (99 schools), we compared the mutability of the Big Five personality traits and social cognitive constructs more often described as socioemotional skills or motivational variables (individual interest, self-concept, and academic effort in the school subjects math, English, and German). The results indicated that there are no marked differences between personality traits and social cognitive constructs across multiple indicators of stability or changeability. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01