The longest personality study reveals wild differences from ages 14 to 77
<p>Scientists have carried out personality tests on people at the age of 14 and then again when they were 77 years old.</p>
<p>The researchers have found that there is no connection between the characteristics the subjects had as teenagers to the characteristics that have in their senior years.</p>
<p>The researchers from the University of Edinburgh found some trends for the specific age groups but not between the subjects in their overall life time.</p>
<p>In <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/"><strong>Psychology and Aging</strong> </a></em></span>paper the researchers said, “There were no positive correlations strong enough to achieve significance between adolescent and older-age characteristic ratings or dependability.”</p>
<p>The scientists explained that as there was 63 years between the two interviews, the length of time meant their characteristics and priorities had significantly altered.</p>
<p>The researchers said, “As a result of this gradual change, personality can appear relatively stable over short intervals - increasingly so throughout adulthood. However, the longer the interval between two assessments of personality, the weaker the relationship between the two tends to be.”</p>
<p>The experiment looked into six key traits for their experiment which were self-confidence, perseverance, stability of moods, conscientiousness, originality and desire to excel.</p>
<p>The study did find that teenagers become more social but then decrease that priority as they move into their adult years.</p>
<p>They also found that first jobs and parenting increase maturity and stable mood levels. The senior years revealed that people become more comfortable and accepting of themselves.</p>
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