Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions

Allemand, Mathias; Flückiger, Christoph

doi:10.1177/09637214211067782

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“…The personality-change literature (Allemand & Flückiger, 2017, 2022) suggests it is easier to intervene at the state rather than trait level. One may expect the same to hold for purpose as well: Few people are going to instantaneously nominate their long-term direction for life without recognizing the short-term experiences that are personally defining and meaningful to them.…”

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“…One may expect the same to hold for purpose as well: Few people are going to instantaneously nominate their long-term direction for life without recognizing the short-term experiences that are personally defining and meaningful to them. Building from the personality-change literature (Allemand & Flückiger, 2017, 2022), we wish to alert the reader to two critical points. First, the motivation to change matters.…”

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The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development

Hill

Pfund

Allemand

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Academic and lay interest has accrued over recent years with respect to how people develop a purpose in life. However, few theoretical models exist for understanding this developmental process as well as how to connect one’s overarching purpose in life to their daily feelings of purposefulness. The current article presents the PATHS (Purpose As Trait, Habit, and State) model, borrowing from clinical and personality development literatures. This framework allows researchers to consider purpose as a more enduring life direction (trait level), as an automatized routine acting in accordance with one’s goals (habit level), and as a more momentary reflection or feeling that one is engaged in purposeful pursuits (state level). Using this framework provides researchers with a valuable tool toward explaining how people progress toward purpose, via natural development or intervention, as well as the potential influences in this process.

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The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development

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Pfund

Allemand

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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“…Given that both predictive effects were evidenced for self‐control level and change, these findings set the stage for considering how early interventions targeting self‐control may have lasting effects. In future efforts toward developing self‐control interventions targeting child and adolescent samples (Allemand et al, 2020 ; Allemand & Flückiger, 2022 ), it would be valuable to consider forgivingness as an outcome of such programs. In this respect, forgivingness becomes yet another potential benefit experienced by self‐controlled youth later in the lifespan, along with multiple health, wealth, and relationship benefits (Moffitt et al, 2011 ; Richmond‐Rakerd et al, 2021 ).…”

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Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood

Allemand

Grünenfelder‐Steiger

Fend

et al. 2022

Journal of Personality

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Introduction This 33‐year study examined associations between self‐control development in adolescence and forgivingness, i.e., the dispositional tendency to forgive others, in middle adulthood. Methods Participants were 1350 adults aged 45 years (50.6% female). Self‐control was measured yearly from age 12 to 16, while forgivingness was measured at age 45. Results Results indicated significant individual differences in level and change of self‐control across the adolescent years and an average mean‐level increase. Individual differences in level and change in self‐control were independently associated with forgivingness in middle adulthood. Individuals who either entered adolescence with higher self‐control, and/or increased in self‐control during the adolescent years, reported higher scores in forgivingness at age 45 compared to peers. This pattern held even after controlling for gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and conduct problems in adolescence. Conclusion The current findings demonstrate that developmental processes in adolescence are important for individual differences in the dispositional tendency to forgive others in adulthood.

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“…People interacted daily with a chatbot and received information, education, feedback, encouragement, and support. Conceptually, the digital-coaching intervention was developed based on a common change factors model (Allemand & Flückiger, 2017, 2022). The idea was that four common change factors might provide some useful heuristic principles for personality change interventions.…”

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The effects of a personality intervention on satisfaction in 10 domains of life: Evidence for increases and correlated change with personality traits.

Olaru¹,

Scheppingen²,

Stieger³

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The desire to change one’s personality traits has been shown to be stronger if people are dissatisfied with associated aspects of their life. While evidence for the effects of interventions on personality trait change is increasing, it is unclear whether these lead to subsequent improvements in the satisfaction with various domains of life. In this study, we examined the effects of a 3-month digital-coaching personality change intervention study on 10 domains of satisfaction. We focused on the three largest intervention groups of the study (N = 418), which included participants who wanted to increase their Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, or Extraversion. Bivariate latent change score models were used to examine correlated change between the targeted personality traits and satisfaction domains. We found that global life satisfaction and satisfaction with oneself as a person increased in all three intervention groups. In addition, increases in specific satisfaction domains were reported for the Conscientiousness (e.g., work/school, health, friendships) and Emotional Stability (e.g., family, sexual relationships, emotions) group. Increases were stable up to the 3-month follow-up. In contrast, the waitlist control group did not report any changes in global or domain-specific life satisfaction. Changes in the satisfaction domains were positively correlated with self-reported personality trait change to a similar degree as the cross-sectional associations, but not to observer-reported personality trait change. The personality intervention thus seemed to have a positive effect on satisfaction with various domains of life, which was associated with the degree of self-reported personality trait change.

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Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 publications

The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development

The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development

Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood

The effects of a personality intervention on satisfaction in 10 domains of life: Evidence for increases and correlated change with personality traits.

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