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Work Context and Personality Development Across Adulthood

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Personality change; Personality plasticity; Big Five; Socialization; Social investment; Organizational behavior; Work outcomes; Aging workforce

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Personality refers to how a person typically thinks, feels, and behaves. Personality development refers to how personality changes over time and with increasing age.

The Work Context and Personality Development Across Adulthood

Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Contrary to the hypothesis that personality is more or less stable after young adulthood, studies have robustly demonstrated that the Big Five personality traits continue to develop across the life span (Big Five Personality Structure and Aging). Due to the centrality of the (paid) work context for adult life, developmental researchers have been interested in how aspects of working life may be related to personality development, while organizational researchers have long been interested in how...

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  1. Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Welthandelsplatz 2/ Level2, 1020, Vienna, Austria

    Catherine E. Bowen

  2. Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Anna E. Kornadt

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    Nancy A. Pachana

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Bowen, C.E., Kornadt, A.E. (2015). Work Context and Personality Development Across Adulthood. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_242-1

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