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How major life events impact our long-term wellbeing. 7 October 2020. Arianne Cohen. Features correspondent. Alamy. Although people lead unique lives, new data says that we all experience...
- Arianne Cohen
- A Psychologist's Dream
- But It Hasn't Turned Out That Way
- Why Is Change So Elusive?
- A Gloomy Prospect Or A Humanistic One?
Ideally, psychologists would love to have a catalog of life experiences that shape personality traits in a predictable way. For example, they—and surely, employers—might like to see that starting a career makes most people more conscientious. They would love to see unmistakable evidence that starting a long-term relationship makes most people more ...
In one of the strongest studies yet, the personality traits of thousands of Dutch adults were followed for several years. There was little evidence that life events like marriage, childbirth, divorce, or widowhood caused predictable and lasting personality changes. Other such studies haven't had much more luck. Where traits are linked with the like...
This lack of evidence doesn't automatically mean that ordinary experiences don't influence personality traits at all. Trait change is common and something has to cause it, after all. But the effects may just be unpredictable: 1. Each change may result from many small and subtle causes, so finding them will require more sophisticated research. Measu...
Several decades ago, Robert Plomin and Denise Daniels wrote: “One gloomy prospect is that the salient environment might be unsystematic, idiosyncratic, or serendipitous events… Such capricious events, however, are likely to prove a dead end for research.” When it comes to predicting personality trait change from ordinary life events, that gloomy pr...
Dec 23, 2019 · Abstract. Major life events affect our wellbeing. However the comparative impact of different events, which often co-occur, has not been systematically evaluated, or studies assumed that the impacts are equivalent in both amplitude and duration, that different wellbeing domains are equally affected, and that individuals exhibit hedonic adaptation.
- Nathan Kettlewell, Nathan Kettlewell, Richard W. Morris, Nick Ho, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. ...
- 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100533
- 2020
- SSM Popul Health. 2020 Apr; 10: 100533.
Jul 23, 2023 · The results of this meta-analysis suggest that major life events are indeed associated with personality change on average, and that effects are specific in that different life events affect different personality variables. People who enter a new relationship tend to become more conscientious and satisfied with life.
Aug 25, 2023 · The life events most likely to change your personality. A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Annelisa Leinbach / Big Think; Wikimedia...
- Ross Pomeroy
Jun 13, 2019 · To learn how people react to upsetting situations and respond to others around them, the researchers examined people’s anger toward politically charged events in a series of laboratory studies ...
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Feb 24, 2024 · A new study reveals how life's pivotal moments—from the joy of marriage and childbirth to the challenges of unemployment and loss—uniquely sculpt our journey to happiness. It uncovers the relationships between events, showing that the path to well-being lies in the tapestry of our experiences, woven together over time.
