PERSONALITY CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH AGING
Longitudinal studies of personality traits
have found that basic personality traits remain relatively consistent
throughout one's adult life. The Baltimore Longitudinal Studies, for example,
found remarkable stability over periods of ten years or more on personality
inventories measuring traits such as:
- neuroticism (any of various psychic or mental, functional disorders, anxiety, depression, etc.)
- extraversion (an attitude in which a person directs his interest to things outside himself and to other persons rather than to his own experiences and feelings)
- openness to experience (willingness to try new and different things)
A Minnesota study obtained similar findings for periods of up to 30 years. Moreover, interviews with older adults themselves have found that individuals' own self-images seem to change relatively little as they age, leading some anthropologists to posit that the self is essentially "ageless."
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