Social Cognitive Constructs Are Just as Stable as the Big Five Between Grades 5 and 8

• Main Authors: Sven Rieger (Author), Richard Göllner (Author), Marion Spengler (Author), Ulrich Trautwein (Author), Benjamin Nagengast (Author), Brent W. Roberts (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Personality traits and social cognitive variables are central constructs in psychological research. It is often assumed that personality traits are less changeable than social cognitive variables, and thus interventions usually tend to focus on the latter. However, these assumptions about the mutabi...