The occurrence of major life events is associated with changes in well-being and personality. To better understand these effects, it is important to consider how individuals perceive major life events. Although theories such as appraisal theory and affective adaptation theory suggest that event perceptions change over time and that these changes are relevant for personality and well-being, stability and change of perceived event characteristics have not been systematically examined. This article aims to fill this gap using data from a longitudinal study (N = 619 at T1). In this study, participants rated nine perceived characteristics of the same major life event up to five times within 1 year. We estimated rank-order and mean-level stabilities as well as intraclass correlations of these life event characteristics with continuous time models. Furthermore, we computed continuous time models for the stability of affective well-being and the Big Five personality traits to generate benchmarks for the interpretation of the stability of the life event characteristics. Rank-order stabilities for the life event characteristics were lower than for the Big Five, but higher than for affective well-being. Most of the variance in life event characteristics was explained by between-person differences. Furthermore, we found a significant mean-level increase for the life event characteristic change in world views and a significant decrease for extraordinariness. These mean-level changes are in line with the meaning-making literature and affective adaptation theory, whereas the rather high rank-order stability of the life event characteristics challenges the importance of reappraisal processes of major life events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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重大生活事件感知特征的稳定性和变化。

重大生活事件的发生与幸福感和人格的变化有关。为了更好地理解这些影响，重要的是要考虑个人如何看待重大生活事件。尽管评价理论和情感适应理论等理论表明事件感知会随着时间而变化，并且这些变化与人格和幸福感有关，但尚未系统地研究感知事件特征的稳定性和变化。本文旨在使用来自纵向研究的数据（T1 时 N = 619）来填补这一空白。在这项研究中，参与者在一年内对同一重大生活事件的九个感知特征进行了多达五次的评分。我们估计了这些生活事件特征与连续时间模型的等级顺序和平均水平稳定性以及组内相关性。此外，我们计算了情感幸福和大五人格特征稳定性的连续时间模型，以生成解释生活事件特征稳定性的基准。生活事件特征的等级顺序稳定性低于大五，但高于情感幸福感。生活事件特征的大部分差异是由人与人之间的差异来解释的。此外，我们发现世界观中生活事件特征变化的平均水平显着增加，非凡性显着降低。这些平均水平的变化符合意义建构文献和情感适应理论，而生活事件特征的较高等级稳定性挑战了重大生活事件重新评估过程的重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。