What Can We Conclude About the Development of Dispositional Traits

question 22

Multiple Choice

What can we conclude about the development of dispositional traits across adulthood?

• A) Personality traits remain mostly stable throughout adulthood when the data are averaged across many different kinds of people.
• B) Personality traits remain stable but only when examining specific personality traits in specific kinds of people.
• C) When the data are averaged across many different kinds of people, the research overwhelmingly points to personality change over time.
• D) It has become apparent that we do not have adequate measures to assess personality trait stability and change over time.

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