Against all odds - is a more differentiated view of personality development in emerging adulthood needed? The case of young apprentices.

Autor/inn/en	Deventer, Jennifer; Lüdtke, Oliver; Nagy, Gabriel; Retelsdorf, Jan; Wagner, Jenny
Titel	Against all odds - is a more differentiated view of personality development in emerging adulthood needed? The case of young apprentices.
Quelle	In: British journal of psychology, 110 (2019) 1, S. 60-86 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1269; 0373-2460; 0950-5652; 2044-8295
DOI	10.1111/bjop.12336
Schlagwörter	Längsschnittuntersuchung; Soziale Situation; Neurotizismus; Persönlichkeit; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Zufriedenheit; Stichprobe; Reifung; Lebensqualität; Arbeitsbedingungen; Berufsausbildung; Belastbarkeit; Genauigkeit; Auszubildender; Jugendlicher; Deutschland
Abstract	Personality development in emerging adults who do not attend college after high school has been largely overlooked so far. In this study, we investigated personality development in emerging German adults (NT1 = 1,886, MageT1 = 18.01 years, 29% female) undergoing vocational education and training (VET). The trainees were assessed at the start of VET, 1.5 years later, and another 1.5 years after that, just before graduation. Longitudinal latent change score analyses were applied. Bivariate analyses investigated life satisfaction and job strain as social and work-related aspects that are potentially reciprocally related to personality development. Mean-level personality changes included increases in neuroticism and decreases in agreeableness and conscientiousness in the first interval. In the second interval, neuroticism decreased and conscientiousness increased. Simultaneously, trainees reported a gradual decrease in extraversion and openness across the 3-year time span. Personality, especially agreeableness and conscientiousness, emerged as a stronger predictor of changes in job strain and life satisfaction than vice versa. For example, more agreeable and more conscientious trainees subsequently showed increases in life satisfaction. Trainees reporting higher job strain subsequently showed decreases in agreeableness. Trajectories of personality development partly support the maturity principle that has been established in many college student samples. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/1