One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

Stieger, Mirjam; Flückiger, Christoph; Allemand, Mathias

doi:10.1111/jopy.12898

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“…By providing an overview the existing literature, the present review helps identifying the most important future directions. Second, although there is initial evidence that VPC is lasting and can be detected by close others 16,54,56 , future research should aim at replicating and extending these findings.…”

Section: Directions For Future Research On Volitional Personality Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Aggregating 15 effect sizes from three studies with long-term follow-up assessments, we found that personality changed by d = 0.40 (95% CI = [0.05, 0.75]) in the desired direction between pre-intervention assessment and follow-up. For example, the effects of the smartphone intervention PEACH were maintained or even increased over a 3-month and a 1-year follow-up interval 16,54 .…”

Section: Sustainability and Generalizability Of Intervention-induced ...mentioning

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A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research

Haehner,

Wright,

Bleidorn

2024

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Personality traits are of critical importance for individual and public health, and many people want to change their personality. Volitional personality change (VPC) – self-directed trait changes in the direction of personal change goals – may thus be a promising way to promote health. In this review, we integrated the emerging literature on VPC (29 studies, N = 7,719). Simply having a goal to change one’s personality was only weakly related to actual personality changes. However, VPC interventions were successful in promoting desired and lasting personality changes (d = 0.26). Promoting VPC may thus help to promote health in the general public.

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Section: Directions For Future Research On Volitional Personality Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainability and Generalizability Of Intervention-induced ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research

Haehner,

Wright,

Bleidorn

2024

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“…For example, a 15-week intervention study found that volitional and active implementation of change behaviors was associated with changes in Big Five traits (Hudson et al, 2019). A recent randomized controlled trial of a three-month digital-coaching intervention also showed that participants who sought to change their personality traits often succeeded (Stieger et al, 2021), with several observed changes remaining for up to a year later (Stieger et al, 2023). Of course, the intervention studies often focus on selective samples.…”

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The Base-Rate and Longer-Term Relevance of Year-to-Year Change in Personality Traits

Roemer,

Lechner,

Rammstedt

et al. 2024

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Personality traits are assumed to change slowly and incrementally. Recent intervention studies apparently challenge this assumption, showing that personality traits can also change quickly and substantially. However, how frequently do such quick changes manifest in the general population? This study sought to determine (1) a base rate of year-to-year changes in the general population and (2) the extent to which these shifts are related to longer-term change patterns. We examined year-to-year change in Big Five traits with nationally representative data from 7,005 German participants, annually tracked for up to 6 years. Year-to-year patterns exhibited stability and change (e.g., ≥ 1 SD year-to-year change in ≈ 20%). Across participants, year-to-year trait score increases and decreases occurred in equal proportions, suggesting that in a given sample, year-to-year changes in different directions average out. Within participants, however, in all domains but agreeableness, year-to-year changes reliably propagated to longer-term trajectories. While much of the year-to-year change faded away in subsequent years, lasting shifts in individuals’ trait levels remained, particularly upon pronounced year-to-year decreases. Overall, (pronounced) year-to-year changes were relatively common, largely reversible, and yet predictive of individuals’ longer-term trajectories. We discuss how the results bridge set-point assumptions with assumptions of incremental trait change.

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Personality development goals at work: A new frontier in personality assessment in organizations

Dupré,

Wille

2024

Int J Selection Assessment

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There is a long and successful history of personality research in organizational contexts and personality assessments are now widely used in a variety of human resources or talent management interventions. In this tradition, assessment typically involves describing (future) employees' personality profiles, and then using this information to select or adapt work roles to optimally meet employees' traits. Although useful, one limitation of this approach is that it overlooks employees' motivations and abilities to develop themselves in their pursuit of greater person‐environment fit. This paper therefore argues for a new type of personality assessment that goes beyond the current descriptive approach. Specifically, we propose assessing employees' Personality Development Goals (PDGs) at work to complement the traditional assessment of “who are you?” with information about “who do you want to be?”. We first briefly summarize the current approach to personality assessment and highlight its limitations. Then, we take stock of the research on PDGs in clinical and personality literatures, and outline the reasons for translating this into organizational applications. We end by describing the key principles that should inform the implementation of PDGs at work and propose a number of future research directions to support and advance this practice.

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One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

Cited by 5 publications

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A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research

A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research

The Base-Rate and Longer-Term Relevance of Year-to-Year Change in Personality Traits

Personality development goals at work: A new frontier in personality assessment in organizations

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