PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Big Five Personality Traits, Birth Order, Extraversion And Introversion
28 Nov 2020
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Personality stability, development and change personality october 6. Personality stability: rank order consistency , evidence for stability, r = . 60 . 90 for 10 year span, childhood personality predicts adult behavior and life outcomes, personality disorders are stable, therapy doesn"t make much of a difference. If someone has experienced trauma, it is usually more than one type: more types of trauma increased the risk of health, social, and emotional problems. Personality change general interventions: general interventions: usually aimed at important outcomes (completing education etc, evidence of success for intensive programs for high-risk preschool students. Identify important goals and behaviours that would lead goal achievement. Personality change obstacles to change: not seeing a reason for change (people like their personality, takes effort, blaming negative experiences and failures on external forces rather than their own personality, people like consistency and predictability. Want a change, and think it is possible: 2.
