Personality and Developmental Changes Across the Life Span: Predictors, Assessment, and Impact

Dear Colleagues,

A considerable amount of research suggests that personality changes across the human lifespan and that people of all ages desire to change their personality. However, the mechanisms behind personality change and the motivations driving people’s desire to change during different life stages remain topics of debate.

We thus invite you to submit your work for publication to this Special Issue to advance our knowledge about the following:

• The mechanisms and predictors of personality change, including, but not limited to, life events, interventions, participation in structured activities, beliefs (e.g., mindset), motivation (e.g., change goals, volitional change, and impact), and individual characteristics (e.g., age, sex, gender, culture, and baseline personality traits).
• What people want to change and why: Although there is consistent research showing that people desire to change most of their personality traits, studies are often limited to the student population and rarely adopt frameworks other than the Big Five. This leaves ample space to integrate additional traits or skills into these findings and to explore the reasons why a person desires to change a specific trait or skill in interaction with individual characteristics (e.g., occupation, age, and gender).
• Methodological challenges: Finally, we recognize the methodological challenges related to the study of personality change. These include measurement issues, data collection, and data analysis and are not limited to quantitative analyses but may also include text and content analysis, as well as qualitative designs, aimed at unveiling the reasons behind the goals and mechanisms driving change.

Dr. Tommaso Feraco
Guest Editor

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• personality
• skills
• development
• change
• volitional change
• interventions
• life events
• longitudinal assessment
• psychometrics