PSYC35H3 Lecture 11: Personality Development
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Dominant view: personality emerges early and continued to change in meaningful ways throughout the lifespan by the end of adolescence. Most personality development occurs in childhood, and personality is stable. Overemphasis on chronological age: masks individual variability. No clear markers to denote start or finish of a stage. Deviations from norm may mistakenly be seen as maladjustment. Young people in their late teens and early 20s generally undergo a number of transitions: leaving home, entering world of work, entering into committed relationships. Zimmerman and neyer (2013) seized on studying abroad as a particularly relevant life experience through which to study (cid:498)personality-environment transactions(cid:499) of months a few years) aboard for academic, work-related or personal. Originally: referred to foreign visitors in general. Nowadays: applied mostly to temp residents in a host country whose primary intent is to spend a limited amount of time (generally b/w a couple reasons. During sojourn, young people are required to deal with loss of routine.
