![]() Recently, I read a research paper about the causes and effects of personality and how personality can change over time as we age. When I read this paper, I found this information very interesting because sometimes I think I have a few traits of mine that are similar fours year ago when I started high school, but in reality, I have changed in my personality without even realizing it. This can be caused through a few factors in the psychology of personality. First of all, genetics plays in the role of personality. Some of our DNA passed down hereditary can be similar and the biology of our family. However, a situation that counterfeit this is the experiment between children related and raised together and children related but raised separately. This takes into account of the effect of personality in nurture and nature. The results showed that there was a difference of their characteristics such as openness or being introverted with the children raised in two different environments. Not only the environment can change personality, but also our personalities as we age. The most rapid change is through the ages of twenty to forty because that is the age period in our lives in becoming independent. This can also relate to how our emotional stability is increased over time and how to handle a situation by showing a certain personality. From the ages of forty and older, our rate of personality change decline. Another factors of the change in personality is the knowledge that our personality will always move into a positive direction. As we age, we become more mature which makes us more responsible and controllable of our lifestyles and actions. We may sometimes stray from our core personalities of who we are, but we tend to stay the same in remainder of our lives. Change can be also changed through experiences either good or bad such as marriage problems, disturbing life problems, or one's environmental surroundings. When one is affected by this experience, their "trauma" affects their personality. Psychologists can diagnose a specific type of personality through the Big Five model: agreeable, conscientiousness, and extroversion, neuroticism, and openness. Many answers can be found through this diagnosis if we are conscientious to being irritable. In the future, I hope to research different types of personality disorder thousands of people go through and how psychologists can discover this through their continuous research.
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