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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences pp 1–11Cite as

Life Outcome Assessment of Personality and Individual Differences

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Big Five; Educational and occupational attainment; Five Factor Model; Health; Live outcomes; Personality traits; Predictive validity; Real-life outcomes; Relationships

Definition/Introduction/Abstract

Personality traits account for substantial variance in diverse real-life outcomes such as job performance, career satisfaction, happiness, psychological well-being, physical health, and relationships (see Ozer and Benet-Martínez 2006; Roberts et al. 2007). Research in this domain has demonstrated that personality traits have important consequences across the life span and therefore have long-term implications. Furthermore, it is not only personality traits assessed in adulthood that predict outcomes but also personality traits assessed early in life. In other words, the predictive validity of personality holds across the life span. Moreover, the effect sizes are comparable to those of other popular life-outcome predictors, such as social background or intelligence. Meta-analytic...

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Spengler, M. (2017). Life Outcome Assessment of Personality and Individual Differences. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1322-1

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