INTRODUCTION In adolescence, personality traits and educational identity processes are interwoven. Previous studies have shown that personality traits predict healthy identity commitment and exploration in education. However, the direction of associations between personality traits and an identity process that searches for another identity option (i.e., reconsideration of commitment) is unclear. Furthermore, there is a lack of prospective studies regarding the direction of the association between personality traits and the educational identity process using within-person methods. Therefore, this study examined the direction of these associations. METHODS Participants of this four-wave longitudinal study comprised 618 Japanese 13-year-old adolescents (53.3% girls). This study involved a 1-year-interval assessment. RESULTS Cross-lagged panel models (CLPM) indicated that four personality traits (neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) predicted three educational identity processes, while reconsideration of commitment predicted two personality traits (i.e., neuroticism and conscientiousness). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) indicated that agreeableness predicted healthy commitment, while commitment predicted agreeableness at within-person level. CONCLUSION The findings from CLPM suggest that reconsideration of commitment is a significant factor to predict healthy (i.e., conscientiousness) and unhealthy (i.e., neuroticism) personality traits in individual differences. Furthermore, the findings from RI-CLPM suggest that agreeableness may be a key trait in promoting healthy educational identity commitment. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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人格特质与教育认同过程之间关联的方向：人与人之间的关联。

引言 在青春期，人格特征和教育认同过程是交织在一起的。先前的研究表明，人格特质可以预测健康的身份承诺和教育探索。然而，人格特质与寻找另一种身份选择（即重新考虑承诺）的身份过程之间的关联方向尚不清楚。此外，缺乏关于人格特质与使用个人方法的教育认同过程之间关联方向的前瞻性研究。因此，本研究检验了这些关联的方向。方法 这项四波纵向研究的参与者包括 618 名日本 13 岁青少年（53.3% 的女孩）。本研究涉及 1 年的时间间隔评估。结果交叉滞后面板模型（CLPM）表明，四种人格特质（神经质、随和和责任心）预测了三种教育认同过程，而重新考虑承诺则预测了两种人格特质（即神经质和责任心）。随机截距交叉滞后面板模型 (RI-CLPM) 表明，宜人性预测健康承诺，而承诺预测个人内部水平的宜人性。结论 CLPM 的研究结果表明，重新考虑承诺是预测个体差异中健康（即尽责性）和不健康（即神经质）人格特征的重要因素。此外，RI-CLPM 的研究结果表明，宜人性可能是促进健康教育认同承诺的关键特征。