The purpose of this study was a cross-cultural examination of centenarians' personality through a person-centered approach to examine if there is a "resilient" personality profile consistent across cultures. Proxy reports information was obtained from family and close friends of 239 U.S. centenarians from the Georgia Centenarians Study and 272 Japanese centenarians from the Tokyo Centenarian Study. Latent profile analyses were conducted to identify personality profiles in centenarians from the United States and Japan. Two personality profiles were identified in both samples: a "resilient" personality profile and "nonresilient" personality profile. The "resilient" group had higher levels of positive personality traits with higher scores on agreeableness and extraversion and lower scores on neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness. The "nonresilient" group had higher scores on neuroticism and lower scores on extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Fifty percent of U.S. centenarians and 65% of Japanese centenarians were in the "resilient" group.

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美国和日本百岁老人性格特征的文化比较。

本研究的目的是通过以人为中心的方法对百岁老人的性格进行跨文化检查，以检查是否存在跨文化一致的“弹性”性格特征。代理报告信息来自乔治亚州百岁老人研究的 239 名美国百岁老人和东京百岁老人研究的 272 名日本百岁老人的家人和密友。进行了潜在轮廓分析以识别来自美国和日本的百岁老人的性格特征。在两个样本中都确定了两个人格档案：“弹性”人格档案和“非弹性”人格档案。“弹性”组具有较高水平的积极人格特质，在宜人性和外向性方面得分较高，在神经质方面得分较低，自觉性和开放性。“非弹性”组在神经质方面得分较高，而在外向性、开放性、宜人性和尽责性方面得分较低。50% 的美国百岁老人和 65% 的日本百岁老人属于“弹性”组。