The Cumulative Continuity Model of Personality Development: Striking a Balance Between Continuity and Change in Personality Traits across the Life Course

2003 ◽  
pp. 183-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent W. Roberts ◽  
Avshalom Caspi
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Theories of Personality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra M Brandes ◽  
Kathleen Wade Reardon ◽  
Jennifer L Tackett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Adult Individual ◽  
Foundational Research ◽  
The Life Course

The study of personality development has seen significant advances in the last two decades. For many years, youth and adult individual differences were studied from separate theoretical standpoints. However, more recent research has indicated that teenagers display personality traits in many of the same ways as adults. These personality traits are moderately stable throughout the life course, but there are important developmental shifts in their expression, structure, and maturation, especially in adolescence. This has resulted in an effort to study youth personality “in its own right” (Tackett, Kushner, De Fruyt, & Mervielde, 2013). Early personality associations with important lifelong outcomes including academic achievement, mental health, and interpersonal relationships further underscore the importance of studying traits in youth. Here we discuss current consensus and controversy on adolescent personality and highlight foundational research on the topic.

scholarly journals Saints and Slackers: Challenging Discourses about the Decline of Domestic Cooking

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah ◽  
Matt Watson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Food Hygiene ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

Amidst growing concern about both nutrition and food safety, anxiety about a loss of everyday cooking skills is a common part of public discourse. Within both the media and academia, it is widely perceived that there has been an erosion of the skills held by previous generations with the development of convenience foods and kitchen technologies cited as culpable in ‘deskilling’ current and future generations. These discourses are paralleled in policy concerns, where the incidence of indigenous food-borne disease in the UK has led to the emergence of an understanding of consumer behaviour, within the food industry and among food scientists, based on assumptions about consumer ‘ignorance’ and poor food hygiene knowledge and cooking skills. These assumptions are accompanied by perceptions of a loss of ‘common-sense’ understandings about the spoilage and storage characteristics of food, supposedly characteristic of earlier generations. The complexity of cooking skills immediately invites closer attention to discourses of their assumed decline. This paper draws upon early findings from a current qualitative research project which focuses on patterns of continuity and change in families’ domestic kitchen practices across three generations. Drawing mainly upon two family case studies, the data presented problematise assumptions that earlier generations were paragons of virtue in the context of both food hygiene and cooking. In taking a broader, life-course perspective, we highlight the absence of linearity in participants’ engagement with cooking as they move between different transitional points throughout the life-course.

scholarly journals Socjalizacja polityczna w przebiegu życia – perspektywa kontynuacji i zmiany

1970 ◽  
pp. 373-400
Author(s):  
Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
The Life Course

The following text presents various alternative theoretical approaches in political socialization research. Some of the theoretical insights provided by the functional, systemic and interpretative perspectives are identifiedin order to depict the discussion around the continuity and change within the political socialization research. Whereas in the firstperiod of political socialization research the aim was to explain the continuity in the development of political orientations, it was later forced to account for modificationand the potential for change (especially when addressing the interpretative issues of identity politics). After describing the field’stheoretical shifts, the life-course model of political socialization is presented. The life-course model attempts to deal with the problem of continuity and change in the political socialization process, pointing to its remarkable complexity and lifelong flexibility.It offers a systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic way of conceptualizing political socialization. It points to the importance of political socialization research in demonstrating interdependence between objective functions of the political system and subjective political learning of a reflexive individual.

scholarly journals Residential mobility across the life course: Continuity and change across three cohorts in Britain

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Falkingham ◽  
Jo Sage ◽  
Juliet Stone ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Life Course

Lifespan personality development: Self-organising goal-oriented agents and developmental outcome

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelis F.M. van Lieshout
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Developmental Domains ◽  
The Life Course

Several historical trends are enumerated that preceded contemporary discussions concerning the development of personality dimensions, personality types, and the person as a self-organising goal-oriented agent. For description of personality across the life course, the big-five personality dimensions are related to similar dimensions in temperament. For a proper understanding of the person as an active agent in personality development, a model for personality functioning is proposed that integrates elements of descriptive research on personality and temperament with theoretical views on personality and temperament functioning, that is, Block and Block’s (1980) views on the curvilinear relation between ego-control and ego-resiliency and Rothbart’s (1989) ideas on the distinction between reactivity and self-regulation. Typological personality studies are related to this model for personality functioning. Finally, personality development across the life course is related to the development of four developmental domains (i.e., interpersonal, achievement, self-concept, and creative domains).

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