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Does divorce change your personality? Examining the effect of divorce occurrence on the Big Five personality traits using panel surveys from three countries
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Abstract
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| Experiencing a divorce can be challenging and have a lasting impact on people's lives, but does it change your personality? By making use of large panel surveys from Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, intra-individual change in the Big Five personality traits of those who separated during a four-year observation, was compared to that of those who remained married. We tested the replicability of divorce-induced personality change across the three country samples, while also examining gender differences and separation duration. Latent difference score models mostly indicated that divorce is not a consistent predictor of personality change, as only isolated effects were found, and these could not be replicated across samples. Aside from the overall lack of replicable effects a few isolated effects were detected that offer some support for a modified version of the social investment principle. Nonetheless, the overall finding of this study suggests that experiencing a divorce is unlikely to lead to permanent personality change. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Personality and individual differences. - Oxford
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Publication
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Oxford
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2021
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ISSN
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0191-8869
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DOI
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10.1016/J.PAID.2020.110428
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Volume/pages
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171
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Article Reference
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110428
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ISI
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000613191900004
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E-only publicatie
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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