Personality Change in the Oldest‐Old: Is It a Matter of Compromised Health and Functioning?

Berg, Anne Ingeborg; Johansson, Boo

doi:10.1111/jopy.12030

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“…It supports a prior report of an association between hearing impairment and declines in extraversion (Berg & Johansson, 2014). Using a larger sample of older adults, this study extended these findings by showing that both self-reported hearing and eyesight are independently related to a generalized change across the five traits.…”

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Sensory functioning and personality development among older adults.

Stéphan

Sutin

Bosselut

et al. 2017

Psychology and Aging

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Deficits in sensory functioning, such as poor vision and hearing, take a significant toll on quality of life. Little is known, however, about their relation with personality development across adulthood. This study examined whether baseline and change in vision and hearing were associated with personality change over a four-year period. Participants (N= 7471; Mage= 66.89; 59% women) were drawn from the Health and Retirement Study. They provided data on vision, hearing, and personality both at baseline and four years later. Poor vision and hearing at baseline and declines in vision and hearing over time were independently related to steeper declines in extraversion, agreeableness, openness and conscientiousness, and less decline in neuroticism, controlling for demographic factors, disease burden and depressive symptoms. Sensory functioning was generally a stronger predictor of personality change than disease burden or depressive symptoms. Consistent with evidence that poor and worsening sensory functions compromise individuals’ interactions with the social and physical environment, this study found deficits in hearing and vision were also associated with maladaptive personality trajectories in older adults.

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confidence: 91%

Sensory functioning and personality development among older adults.

Stéphan

Sutin

Bosselut

et al. 2017

Psychology and Aging

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“…Future research might identify life events and social role changes or other sources of change that impact personality development in old age. Changes in health might play key roles in this regard (Berg & Johansson, 2014;Human et al, 2013;Magee, Heaven, & Miller, 2013;Mõttus, Johnson, et al, 2012;Mroczek & Spiro, 2003;Takahashi, Edmonds, Jackson, & Roberts, 2013). Health declines might impact individual personality in similar ways (resulting in mean-level changes), but people differ on when health declines begin to emerge (resulting in rank-order changes).…”

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What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence

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Increasing numbers of empirical studies provide compelling evidence that personality traits change across the entire lifespan. What initiates this continuing personality development and how does this development proceed? In this paper, we compare six theoretical perspectives that offer testable predictions about why personality develops the way it does and identify limitations and potentials of these perspectives by reviewing how they hold up against the empirical evidence. While all of these perspectives have received some empirical support, there is only little direct evidence for propositions put forward by the five‐factor theory of personality and the theory of genotype → environment effects. In contrast, the neo‐socioanalytic theory appears to offer a comprehensive framework that fits the empirical findings and allows the integration of other, more specialized, perspectives that focus on specific aspects of personality development like the role of time, systematic differences between categories of social roles or the active partake of the person himself or herself. We draw conclusions on the likely driving factors for adult personality development and identify avenues for future research. Copyright © 2014 European Association of Personality Psychology

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“…Franklin et al (2013), demonstrated a strong relationship between extroversion personality, willingness to listen to speech in the presence of background noise, and willingness to wear HAs in older adults. Further, a longitudinal study showed that personality change was linked with HL and social isolation (Berg & Johansson, 2014). Furthermore, studies presented that severity of age-related HL was associated with impaired activities of daily living (Gopinath et al, 2012).…”

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