For a long time, the development of personality from adolescence to adulthood was not well understood. New 1 ___ into what happens to personality during this period of life come fr... For a long time, the development of personality from adolescence to adulthood was not well understood. New 1 ___ into what happens to personality during this period of life come from a new study in the Netherlands, and it sparked interest of many people. In the study, each participant aged 12 to 22 filled out a personality inventory that measured the Big Five personality traits, 2 ___, openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. They are also asked to rate their closeness to siblings and friends that they had recruited to 3 ___ them in the study. The researchers explored how much personality traits tended to change over time. Consistent with the idea that personality stabilizes as people reach adulthood, the degree of change from year to year 4 ___ as children got older. The team also looked at personality change for boys and girls 5 ___. They found that boys in this sample showed a tendency toward more emotional 6 ___ over time, reporting decreased ratings on tendencies such as worrying or getting easily upset. Girls showed a(n) 7 ___ dip in emotional stability as they reached adolescence, followed by an increase as they reached young adulthood. The last big question 8 ___ was whether children’s relationships with friends and siblings affect their personality. While there was a tendency for children to choose to 9 ___ out with other people who have traits 10 ___ to their own, changes in friends’ traits did not predict changes in a child’s traits. Read more