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Title: | Does divorce change your personality? Examining the effect of divorce occurrence on the Big Five personality traits using panel surveys from three countries | Authors: | SPIKIC, Sascha Mortelmans, D Pasteels, I |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Source: | PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 171 (Art N° 110428) | Abstract: | Experiencing a divorce can be challenging and have a lasting impact on people's lives, but does it change your personality? By making use of large panel surveys from Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, intra-individual change in the Big Five personality traits of those who separated during a four-year observation, was compared to that of those who remained married. We tested the replicability of divorce-induced personality change across the three country samples, while also examining gender differences and separation duration. Latent difference score models mostly indicated that divorce is not a consistent predictor of personality change, as only isolated effects were found, and these could not be replicated across samples. Aside from the overall lack of replicable effects a few isolated effects were detected that offer some support for a modified version of the social investment principle. Nonetheless, the overall finding of this study suggests that experiencing a divorce is unlikely to lead to permanent personality change. | Keywords: | Personality change;Divorce;Big Five;Social investment theory;Latent difference score | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39560 | ISSN: | 0191-8869 | e-ISSN: | 1873-3549 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110428 | ISI #: | 000613191900004 | Rights: | 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2022 |
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