Personality and Social Relationships: As Thick as Thieves

Mund, Markus; Jeronimus, Bertus F.; Neyer, Franz F.

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“…Many leisure activities have a social component (Karp et al, 2006). The majority of research investigating the role of social engagement in personality development has focused on social network size (e.g., Lang et al, 1998;Mund et al, 2018) or social role status (e.g., Lodi-Smith & Roberts, 2012) but less on leisure behavior. Up to now, research on the relationship between personality and leisure activity has been rare.…”

Section: What Personality-leisure Activity Transactions Can We Expect?mentioning

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Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model Across 13 Years in Adulthood

Sander

Schumann

Richter

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Collabra: Psychology

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Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead to prospective changes in personality traits, and whether changes in personality elicit prospective changes in leisure activities. We applied random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) to four waves of 13-year longitudinal data (2005−2017) from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the sample as a whole (N = 55,790) and for three specific age groups (young, middle-aged, and older adults). We examined between-person associations and within-person auto-regressive effects, correlated change and cross-lagged effects for Big Five personality traits (i.e., openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) with self-reported frequency of leisure activities (i.e., physical activities, socializing, volunteering, political activity, artistic and musical activity, going out) and overall participation in leisure activities. At the between-person level, leisure activities and overall participation were most strongly associated with openness to experience. At the within-person level, we found reciprocal effects of extraversion only with overall participation in leisure activities and socializing. We found unidirectional within-person cross-lagged effects between leisure activities and personality traits and vice versa. Some effects were age-group-specific only. These findings suggest that leisure activities that are associated with certain traits at the between-person level are not necessarily those that trigger change in the respective personality trait. We discuss our findings based on the TESSERA framework for personality development. We conclude that the specificity of an experience or behavior and its corresponding trait is essential for personality development and should be subjected to further research.

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Section: What Personality-leisure Activity Transactions Can We Expect?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model Across 13 Years in Adulthood

Sander

Schumann

Richter

et al. 2021

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“…Cornwell, 2014), even if in the long term more peripheral ties are lost (as one reviewer noted). Finally, personality plays a role, particularly as extroverts are especially likely to get and keep ties (Asendorpf and Wipers, 1998;Mund, et al, 2018;Sasovova et al, 2010;Zhu et al, 2013).…”

Section: Which Egos Are Likeliest To Keep Ties or Drop Ties?mentioning

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Who is dropped and why? Methodological and substantive accounts for network loss

Fischer

Offer

2020

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High rates of egocentric network turnover are frequently observed but not well explained. About 1,000 respondents to the UCNets survey named an average of 10 names in each of two waves a year apart. Consistent with prior studies, respondents in wave 2 failed to relist about half of the names they provided in wave 1. Asked why, respondents explained that they had forgotten the alter for about 40 percent of the missing names. Other common answers, such as no "occasion... to be in touch," also suggest that the true rate of alters being dropped is probably under 20 percent. Multilevel logit models identified the predictors of alters being dropped (neither relisted nor forgotten) versus retained. Immediate kin were likeliest to be retained and roommates, coworkers, and acquaintances to be dropped. Alters who provided companionship, confiding, advice, and emergency help were especially likely to be retained, as were those to whom respondents felt close. Little about the respondents themselves affected drop rates: having moved recently, having a close friend die, or having had an important relationship break up. Results are consistent with the argument that a tie's degree of constraint (notably being close family) and its balance of rewards determine the likelihood of it being dropped or demoted. Who is Dropped and Why? Methodological and Substantive Accounts for Network Loss Panel studies of egocentric networks commonly report a paradox: Respondents report much turnover among their alters-typically, about half of those named are not renamed-and yet respondents' repopulated networks display notable constancy in traits such as size, composition, supportiveness, and structure (see review below). Our purpose here is to expand our understanding of this phenomena by focusing on the first part of this process: whom respondents drop. We use two waves of UCNets, a survey that administered many name-eliciting questions to about 1,000 adult respondents. Methodologically, we found that (a) many apparently dropped alters were not really dropped, but were simply forgotten; (b) many alters whom respondents failed to re-list nonetheless remained "dormant" and available to the respondents; and (c) respondents positively dropped or demoted alters for several distinct reasons. Substantively, we found that (a) alters who were really dropped-neither re-listed nor simply forgotten-tended to be: extended kin, coworkers, or acquaintances; alters who had not been named as providing key support; and alters who were considered "difficult" (unless they were immediate kin). (b) Respondents who dropped many of their alters were particularly likely to have moved outside the region between waves. These findings suggest, methodologically, that the "true" rate of dropped alters in an adult population is nearer to 20 percent than the conventional 50 percent (depending on how the analyst classifies dropped alters who seemed to have been moved toward the periphery of ego's network). Theoretically, the findings suggest that the likelihood of being dropped ...

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“…the first romantic relationship or birth of a child) and work (e.g. the first job) have great potential to stimulate personality socialization (Bleidorn et al, ; Denissen, Luhmann, Chung, & Bleidorn, ; Jokela, Kivimaki, Elovainio, & Keltikangas‐Jarvinen, ; Neyer & Asendorpf, ; Neyer & Lehnart, ; Scollon & Diener, ; van Scheppingen et al, ; Wagner, Becker, Lüdtke, & Trautwein, ; for a review, see Mund, Jeronimus, & Neyer, ). For instance, in the love and family domain, research has repeatedly shown that finding a partner is associated with decreases in Neuroticism and related traits, increases in Extraversion, and increases in Conscientiousness (Lehnart et al, ; Neyer & Asendorpf, ; Neyer & Lehnart, ; Wagner et al, ).…”

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Personality Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood: A Study of Age Differences

et al. 2019

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Early adulthood is a time of substantial personality change characterized by large inter-individual diversity. To investigate the role of age in this diversity, the present study examined whether emerging adults differ from an older group of young adults in their Big Five personality development. By means of multi-group latent change modelling, two groups of 16-to 19-year-olds (n = 3555) and 26-to 29-year-olds (n = 2621) were tracked over the course of four years and compared regarding four aspects of personality change: mean-level change, rank-order change, interindividual differences in change, and profile change. In addition, age-differential socialization effects associated with six first-time life events were investigated. Analyses revealed substantial age differences in all four aspects of change. As expected, emerging adults showed greater change and diversity in change than young adults. However, the six life events had no age-differential impact on change in single traits and Big Five profiles. Overall, the results indicate that age differences should be considered even in specific life stages to advance the understanding of personality development.

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Personality and Social Relationships: As Thick as Thieves

Cited by 12 publications

References 103 publications

Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model Across 13 Years in Adulthood

Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model Across 13 Years in Adulthood

Who is dropped and why? Methodological and substantive accounts for network loss

Personality Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood: A Study of Age Differences

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