The stability of big-five personality traits

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

No 18601, Working Paper Series from Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is generally unrelated to experiencing adverse life events and is unlikely to be economically meaningful. Like other non-cognitive traits, personality can be modeled as a stable input into many economic decisions.

Keywords: non-cognitive skills; Big-Five personality traits; stability; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: The stability of big-five personality traits (2012)
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