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| Age differences in adult personality: findings from the United States and China | | Author(s) | Gisela Labouvie-Vief, Manfred Diehl, Alicia Tarnowski |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 1, January 2000 |
| Pages | pp P4-P17 |
| Keywords | Personality ; Age groups [elderly] ; Adults ; China ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There has been considerable interest in whether personality displays change or stability as a function of age. This study used samples of 285 adults from the United States and 450 adults from the People's Republic of China to examine age, gender, and culture differences in personality. Participants in both samples ranged from 20 to 87 years of age and responded to the California Psychological Inventory (CPI). Factor analyses of the CPI resulted in 4 personality factors (extroversion, control/norm orientation, flexibility, femininity/masculinity) with high congruence across cultures after targeted rotation. Multivariate analyses revealed significant main effects of age, gender, and culture. Specifically, negative age differences were found for scales that loaded on extroversion and flexibility, with older adults having lower scores on these scales. In contrast, positive age differences were found for scales indicative of control/norm orientation. Overall, age differences were more pronounced for Chinese adults than for US adults. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000420401 A |
| Classmark | DK: BB: SD: 7DC: 7T |
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