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Social interactions, age, personal experiences, and significant events (especially traumatic events) can all alter a person's perceptions and cause their personality to change. [ 5 ] Each person has their own unique personality, and as a result, the many differences and changes that occur, may be confusing.
[139] [140] However, personality also changes. Research on the Big 5 Personality traits include a decrease in openness and extraversion in adulthood; an increase of agreeableness with age; peak conscientiousness in middle age; and a decrease of neuroticism late in life. [141]
This particular study revealed that the older a participant was the less personality change they reported or predicted. Despite this, the magnitude of the end-of-history illusion did not change with age as predictors consistently predicted their personality would change less over the next decade than reporters believed it changed in that time.
Additionally, longitudinal studies have found consistency in personality changes that occur across the lifetime, in both adults and adolescents. [10] [11] Research in Big Five traits in American and Flemish teens showed similar changes in personality from ages 12 to 18. [11]
The lifespan perspectives of personality are based on the plasticity principle, the principle that personality traits are open systems that can be influenced by the environment at any age. [5] Large-scale longitudinal studies have demonstrated that the most active period of personality development appears to be between the ages of 20–40. [ 5 ]
Developmental psychology generally focuses on how and why certain changes (cognitive, social, intellectual, personality) occur over time in the course of a human life. Many theorists have made a profound contribution to this area of psychology.
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Freud proposed five psychosexual stages of personality development. He believed adult personality is dependent upon early childhood experiences and largely determined by age five. [21] Fixations that develop during the infantile stage contribute to adult personality and behavior. [22]