While there is some evidence for changes in personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-
esteem as a function of life events, effects have been small and inconsistent across studies …

Objective Theory and research have emphasized the impact of life events on personality trait
change. In this article, we review prospective research on personality trait change in …

Individuals experience loneliness when they perceive a deficiency in the quality or quantity
of their social relationships. In the present meta-analysis, we compiled data from 75 …

The current article presents a theoretical framework of the short-and long-term processes
underlying personality development throughout adulthood. The newly developed TESSERA …

Self‐esteem is a pervasive individual characteristic with major consequences for people's
lives. Recent research demonstrated normative change and substantial individual …

Increasing numbers of empirical studies provide compelling evidence that personality traits
change across the entire lifespan. What initiates this continuing personality development …

Decades of studies identify personality traits as prospectively associated with life outcomes.
However, previous investigations of personality characteristic-outcome associations have …

Peers are a pervasive aspect of people's lives, but their role in personality development has
rarely been considered. This is surprising, given that peers are promising candidates to …

How can researchers study personality processes and their social consequences? In our
methodology overview, we first introduce ambulatory assessment methods, which …

Background Personality traits can be used to predict an individual's behaviors in different life
situations, including marital life situations. Marital satisfaction that is influenced by different …