The Importance of the Big Five in Studying Personality Change

Study of personality change was far from mainstream until the early 2000s. The Big Five were a critical development in the study of personality change. If we measured broad between person traits using the Big Five, then change will be a function of that definition. Changes outside the Big Five will not be observed. Despite numerous studies demonstrating life events associated with change, there are many inconsistencies in whether change is observed and direction of change.