Wen-Dong Li, Jiexin Wang, Tammy Allen, Xin Zhang, Kaili Yu, Hong Zhang, Jason L Huang, Mengqiao Liu, Andrew Li
The literature on personality trait development has mainly focused on influences of life experiences in one single life domain (e.g., work or family) separate from one another and has primarily examined personality development in early life stages. Thus, less attention has been devoted to influences from interplays across different life domains and personality development in middle and late adulthood. Synthesizing the literature on personality science and organizational research, we built a theoretical model and investigated what, how, and why the interplay between two central life domains-work and family-may be related to personality trait development of people at their middle and late life stages, and more important, change-related reciprocal relationships between personality traits and work-family experiences...
August 10, 2023: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology