Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study

0558840 - PSÚ 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Ausmees, L. - Kandler, Ch. - Realo, A. - Allik, J. - Borkenau, P. - Hřebíčková, Martina - Mottus, R.
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study.
Journal of Research in Personality. Roč. 99, srpen (2022), č. článku 104245. ISSN 0092-6566. E-ISSN 1095-7251
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-25656S
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : neo-pi-r * life-span * self * scales * stability * adulthood * agreement * universal * facets * big * social desirability * age differences * personality traits * facets * nuances
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 3.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
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Little research has examined age differences by using more than one source of information. We compared age differences in Five-Factor Model (FFM) facets and nuances in self-reports and ratings by knowledgeable in-formants using samples from three countries (Estonia, Germany, and the Czech Republic, N = 5,624). We hypothesized that age differences would be larger in self-than informant-reports, because of greater social desirability in self-descriptions with advancing age. Indeed, we found that age differences were systematically smaller in informant-reports compared to self-reports, this trend was stronger for traits independently rated as socially desirable. As age differences may be best approximated by average trends of self-and informant-reports, we provide meta-analytic age trends for multi-rater composite scores of the FFM facets and nuances.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332411