Research on personality development has traditionally focused on rank-order stability and mean-level change in the context of personality traits. The present study expands this approach to the examination of change and stability at another level of personality—narrative identity—by focusing on autobiographical reasoning. Drawing from theory in personality and developmental science, we examine stability and change in exploratory processing and positive and negative self-event connections.

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自传体推理的稳定性和变化：叙事身份发展的 4 年纵向研究

人格发展的研究传统上侧重于人格特质背景下的等级顺序稳定性和平均水平变化。本研究通过关注自传体推理，将这种方法扩展到另一个人格层面——叙事身份——的变化和稳定性检验。借鉴人格和发展科学的理论，我们检查探索性过程的稳定性和变化以及积极和消极的自我事件联系。