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  • Erica Baranski
  • Gwendolyn Gardiner
  • Daniel Lee
  • David C. Funder
  • Maite Beramendi
  • Brock Bastian
  • Aljoscha Neubauer
  • Diego Cortez
  • Eric Roth
  • Ana Torres
  • Daniela S. Zanini
  • Kristina Petkova
  • Jessica Tracy
  • Catherine E. Amiot
  • Mathieu Pelletier-Dumas
  • Roberto González
  • Ana Rosenbluth
  • Sergio Salgado
  • Yanjun Guan
  • Emma E. Buchtel
  • Victoria Wai Lan Yeung
  • Diego A. Forero
  • Andrés Camargo
  • Željko Jerneić
  • Martina Hrõebíčková
  • Sylvie Graf
  • Pernille Strøbæk
  • Anu Realo
  • Anu Realo
  • Christelle Maisonneuve
  • Sofian El-Astal
  • Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdi
  • Matthias Ziegler
  • Lars Penke
  • John Rauthmann
  • Ágota Kun
  • Peter Gadanecz
  • Zoltan Vass
  • Mate Smohai
  • Abhijit Das
  • Anagha Lavalekar
  • Eyal Rechter
  • Augusto Gnisci
  • Ida Sergi
  • Vincenzo Paolo Senese
  • Marco Perugini
  • Giulio Costantini
  • Asuka Komiya
  • Tatsuya Sato
  • Yuki Nakata
  • Shizuka Kawamoto
  • Marwan Al-Zoubi
  • Nicholas Owsley
  • Chaning Jang
  • Georgina Mburu
  • Irene Ngina
  • Girts Dimdins
  • Rasa Barkauskiene
  • Alfredas Laurinavicius
  • Marijana Markovikj
  • Eleonora Serafimovska
  • Khairul A. Mastor
  • Elliott Kruse
  • Nairan Ramirez-Esparza
  • Jaap Denissen
  • Marcel Van Aken
  • Ron Fischer
  • Ike E. Onyishi
  • Kalu T. Ogba
  • Siri Leknes
  • Vera Waldal Holen
  • Ingelin Hansen
  • Christian K. Tamnes
  • Kaia Klava
  • Muhammad Rizwan
  • Rukhsana Kausar
  • Nashi Khan
  • Maria Cecilia Gastardo-Conaco
  • Diwa Malaya A. Quinones
  • Piotr Szarota
  • Paweł Izdebski
  • Martyna Kotyśko
  • Joana Henriques-Calado
  • Florin Alin Sava
  • Petar Polović
  • Dušanka Mitrović
  • Milan Oljača
  • Snezoana Smederevac
  • Ryan Hong
  • Oumar Barry
  • Peter Halama
  • Janek Musek
  • Gyuseog Han
  • Eunkook M. Suh
  • Soyeon Choi
Recent research conducted largely in the United States suggests that most people would like to change one or more of their personality traits. Yet almost no research has investigated the degree to which and in what ways volitional personality change (VPC), or individuals’ active efforts toward personality change, might be common around the world. Through a custom-built website, 13,278 college student participants from 55 countries and one of a larger country (Hong Kong, S.A.R.) using 42 different languages reported whether they were currently trying to change their personality and, if so, what they were trying to change. Around the world, 60.40% of participants reported that they are currently trying to change their personalities, with the highest percentage in Thailand (81.91%) and the lowest in Kenya (21.41%). Among those who provide open-ended responses to the aspect of personality they are trying to change, the most common goals were to increase emotional stability (29.73%), conscientiousness (19.71%), extraversion (15.94%), and agreeableness (13.53%). In line with previous research, students who are trying to change any personality trait tend to have relatively low levels of emotional stability and happiness. Moreover, those with relatively low levels of socially desirable traits reported attempting to increase what they lacked. These principal findings were generalizable around the world
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Страницы (с-по)1140-1156
Число страниц17
ЖурналJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
Том121
Номер выпуска5
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СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 ноя 2021

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