Age-Relevance of Person Characteristics: Persons' Beliefs about Developmental Change across the Lifespan

Autor/inn/en	Gruhn, Daniel; Gilet, Anne-Laure; Studer, Joseph; Labouvie-Vief, Gisela
Titel	Age-Relevance of Person Characteristics: Persons' Beliefs about Developmental Change across the Lifespan
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 2, S.376-387 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0021315
Schlagwörter	Personality Development; Adolescents; Young Adults; Older Adults; Beliefs; Profiles; Age Differences; Form Classes (Languages); French; Native Speakers; Time Perspective; Physical Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Älterer Erwachsener; Belief; Glaube; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Analytischer Sprachbau; Französisch; Muttersprachler; Zeitbezug; Körperliche Erscheinung; Ausland; Schweiz
Abstract	The authors investigated normative beliefs about personality development. Young, middle-aged, and older adults indicated the age-relevance of 835 French adjectives by specifying person characteristics as typical for any age decade from 0 to 99 years. With this paradigm, the authors determined age-relevance (How typical is a characteristic for a given age decade?). Most characteristics were ascribed to young adulthood. The pattern differed across the lifespan, however, for positive and negative person characteristics as well as for physical, cognitive, and personal/expressive characteristics. Whereas the total number of ascribed positive characteristics peaked in young adulthood and declined thereafter, the number of ascribed negative person characteristics peaked during adolescence, remained fairly low during middle adulthood, and increased slightly in old age (70+ years). As a consequence, the most positive profile was ascribed to young olds (60 to 69 years), whereas the most negative personality profiles were ascribed to the oldest age groups (70+ years) and to adolescence (10 to 19 years). The negative profiles are primarily due to more negative physical characteristics ascribed to older adults and more negative cognitive characteristics ascribed to adolescence. (Contains 4 figures, 3 tables, and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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